Hugh Barron

Hugh BarronProject Leader, Geology & Landscape Scotland

Location: Edinburgh

Tel: 0131 650 0258

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Biography

  • 2008–2010: Deputy to Chief Geologist, Scotland
  • 2008–2010: Team Leader,  Responsive Surveys Scotland
  • 2002–current: Sector Manager, UK Business Development
  • 1994–current: Mapping Geologist,  BGS Edinburgh
  • 1991–1994: Science Administration, BGS Keyworth
  • 1986–1991: Stratigraphic Palynologist, BGS Keyworth
  • 1987: MSc by Research, University of Aberdeen, Palynology
  • 1981–1985: Geologist, oil service company
  • 1981: BSc (Hons) University of Aberdeen, Geology

Research interests

  • Geodiversity
  • 3D geological modelling and visualisation
  • SDI development (governance)
  • Geotourism
  • Silurian and Devonian of Scotland

Skills

  • External networking & business development
  • Project management
  • GIS and digital mapping
  • Geological mapping
  • Lower Palaeozoic stratigraphy and palynology

Current projects and collaboration

  • UKBD Sector Manager, Scotland
  • Scotland Geodiversity with Scottish Natural Heritage
  • Landscape Character Assessment and geodiversity with the Cairngorms National Park Authority
  • Development of Scotland’s SDI with the Scottish Government
  • Local authority geodiversity

Professional association

  • 2008–present: Chair, Association for Geographic Information, Scotland
  • 2007–present: Scottish representative on Association for Geographic Information (AGI) Council and Director of AGI Ltd
  • 2005–present: CSci. Chartered Scientist
  • 1997–present: CGeol. Chartered Geologist
  • 1994 — Member, Edinburgh Geological Society

Published outputs

Key Papers

MOLYNEUX, S G, BARRON, H F and SMITH, R A. 2008. Upper Llandovery–Wenlock (Silurian) palynology of the Pentland Hills inliers, Midland Valley of Scotland. Scottish Journal of Geology, Vol. 44, 151–168.

PHILLIPS, E R, BARRON, H F, SMITH, R A, AND ARKLEY, S L B. 2004. Composition and provenance of the Silurian to Devonian sequences of the Southern Midland Valley. Scottish Journal of Geology, Vol. 40, 23–42.

BARRON, H F, PHILLIPS, E R and FLOYD, J D. 2004. The Lamington Conglomerate: further evidence for an ophiolitic source for the Ordovician Marchburn Formation, Northern Belt,
Southern Uplands. Scottish Journal of Geology, Vol. 40, 7–12.

PHILLIPS, E R, EVANS, J A, STONE, P, HORSTWOOD, M S A, FLOYD, J D, SMITH, R A, AKHURST, M C, AND BARRON, H F. 2003. Detrital Avalonian zircons in the Laurentian Southern Uplands Terrance, Scotland. Geology,Vol. 31, 625–628.

SMITH, R A, PHILLIPS, E R, FLOYD, J D, BARRON, H F and PICKETT, E A. 2001. The Northern Belt one hundred years on: A revised model of the Ordovician tracts near Leadhills, Scotland. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (Earth Sciences). Vol. 91, 421–434.

MCCAFFREY, W D, BARRON, H F, MOLYNEUX, S G, and KNELLER, B C. 1992. Derived microfossils as provenance indicators: implications for Caledonian Terrane Reconstruction. Geological Magazine. Vol. 129, No. 4, 457–464.