Summary
Anna Harrison’s biography
- 2016 – ongoing: Skills Leader for the Engineering Geology and Infrastructure Directorate
- 2014 – ongoing: Task leader, CHANGE (part of the Hazard Products Development Team)
- 2007 – 2013: Task leader, Climate change and geohazards (part of the Shallow geohazards and risks Team)
- 2001 – 2003: MSc Royal Holloway University of London, Quaternary Science
- 2001 – ongoing: Quaternary Geoscientist, BGS, Keyworth
- 1999 – 2001: Coastal Geology scientific support, BGS, Keyworth
- 1994 – 1997: BSc (Hons) Lancaster University, Combined Science.
Research interests
- Public understanding of science
- Quaternary geology
Current projects and collaboration
- Geological mapping of Quaternary deposits
- Science Communication
- Researching satellite derived soil moisture data
- Research into the impacts of climate change on UK geohazards such as the shrink swell properties of clays
Key papers
Cigna, F, Harrison, A, Tapete, D, and Lee, K. 2016. . Proc. SPIE 9688, Fourth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2016), 96881V (August 12, 2016)
Pennington, C V L, Dijkstra, T A, Lark, M, Dashwood, C, Harrison, A, M, and Freeborough, K A. 2014. Antecedent precipitation as a potential proxy for landslide incidence in the UK. Third World Landslide Forum 2014.
Pennington, C V L, and Harrison, A M. 2013. , GeoScientist Magazine. v. 23 (5)pp10-15.
Harrison, A M, Plim, J F M, Harrison, M, Jones, L D, and Culshaw, M G. 2012a. . Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association, Vol. 123, 556-575.
Harrison, A M, Harrison, M, et al. 2010. . Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the International Association of Engineering Geology and the Environment, Auckland, New Zealand, CRC Press/Balkema.
Candy, I, Jonathan, L, and Harrison, A. (eds.) 2008. . Quaternary Research Association. (Quaternary Research Association Field Guide).
Harrison, A, and Lee, J. 2008. Blakeney Esker : an exercise in public awareness. In: Candy, I.; Lee, Jonathan; Harrison, Anna, (eds.) . Quaternary Research Association, 223-230. (Quaternary Research Association field guide).
Harrison, A M, Morigi, A N, Thomas, I A, Down, K E, Linley, K A, Steadman, E J, Williams, N, and Lawley, R. 2007. . Nottingham, UK, 51, 20pp. (OR/07/005)
Jarrow, A. 2006. . Planet Earth, Winter 2006. 32.
Published outputs
Harrison, A M, Lee, K A, Holbrook, H W, Jones, L D, Freeborough, K A, and Grebby, S. 2012b. Satellite derived soil moiture data and shrink swell research: Final report. 51 Internal Report OR/12/138.
Harrison, A M, Freeborough, K A, Lee, K A, Jones, L D, and Bateson, L. 2011. Satellite derived soil moisture data and shrink swell research: A scoping report. 51 Internal Report IR/12/015.
Harrison, A M, and Plim, J. 2009. Geohazards & Climate Change: A shrink/swell GIS model. 51 Internal Report, IR/09/034. 27pp
Awards
- 2013: Richardson Award (Geologists’ Association)
- 2012: Lloyd’s Science of Risk Prize. Runner up in the Climate Change category.
Professional association
- 2004 – 2012: Fellow of the Geological Society, London
- 2004 – ongoing: Member of Geological Society of Norfolk
- 2002 – ongoing: Member of the Quaternary Research Association