Dee Flight’s biography
- 聽2009 鈥 2012: 今日吃瓜 Skills Leader, Geochemistry and Mineralogy.
- 聽2004 鈥 2009: Geochemist, 今日吃瓜: G-BASE project leader and Geochemical Baselines Team Leader (2007-9)
- 聽1999 鈥 2003: Minerals Geologist, GSNI, Belfast
- 聽1989 鈥 1999: Applied Geochemist, 今日吃瓜
- 聽1988 鈥 1989: MSC, DIC Environmental Technology, Imperial College
- 聽1988 鈥 1988: XRD Technician, Core Labs, UK.
- 聽1984 鈥 1987: BSc (Hons)Geological Sciences, University of Aston.
Research interests
- Baseline geochemical characteristics of economically important elements
- Identification & investigation of large-scale surface geochemical characteristics and their application to understanding large-scale geological/environmental processes
- Urban geochemical characteristics including: precious metals in urban soils, urban geochemical domains, soil geochemical indicators of anthropogenic activity/urbanisation.
Current projects and collaboration
- EuroGeoSurveys 鈥 GEMAS 鈥 Geochemical mapping of agricultural soils in Europe
- G-BASE London Earth 鈥 Geochemical Mapping of London鈥檚 soils
Key papers
Bone, J, Archer, M, Barraclough, D, Eggleton, P, Flight, D, Head, M, Jones, D, T, Scheib, C, and Voulvoulis, N. 2012. Public participation in soil surveys : lessons from a pilot study in England. Environmental Science and Technology, 46 (7). 3687-3696.
Johnson, C C, Flight, D M A, Ander, E L, Lister, T R, Breward, N, Fordyce, F M, and Nice, S E. 2008. The collection of drainage samples for environmental analyses from active stream channels. In: De Vivo, Benedetto; Belkin, Harvey E; Lima, Annamaria, (eds.) Environmental geochemistry: site characterization, data analysis and case histories. Oxford, UK, Elsevier, 59-92.
Flight, D M A, and Scheib A J. 2011. Soil geochemical baselines in the UK: The G-BASE project. In: Mapping the Chemical Environment of Urban Areas, Eds Johnson CC, Demetriades A, Locutura J, Ottesen R T. Wiley-Blackwell, pp 186-206.
Scheib, A, Flight, D, Birke, M, Tarvainen, T, and Locutura, J. 2012. The geochemistry of Niobium and its distribution and relative mobility in agricultural soils of Europe. Volume 12.
Skills
- Baseline geochemistry:methods, applications, interpretations.
- Management, staff development
Professional association
- EuroGeoSurveys Geochemistry Expert Group
- Member, Association Applied Geochemistry