Organising Committee
Director: Dr Geertje Schuitema
Dr Geertje Schuitema, Director of the ReSToRE International Summer School, Funded Investigator at iCRAG and Associate Professor at UCD School of Business. Her research focuses on factors that explain (sustainable) consumer behaviour, including the adoption of new technologies and the public perception of environmental issues and risks.
Co-organisers:
Maeve is a Geoscience Policy, Communications and Public Affairs Specialist at iCRAG. She was Director of Geoscience Policy at the American Geosciences Institute from 2013 to 2018 and has extensive experience in both geoscience and policy in Ireland and the U.S. She holds geology degrees from Trinity College Dublin and Colorado School of Mines.
Prof Murray Hitzman (Director of iCRAG)
Murray W. Hitzman is Director of iCRAG and a Science Foundation Ireland Research Professor. Murray has B.A. degrees in geology and anthropology from Dartmouth College (1976), an M.S. in geology from University of Washington (1978), and a Ph.D. in geology from Stanford University (1983). He worked in the petroleum and minerals industries from 1976 to 1993 primarily doing mineral exploration worldwide. Dr. Hitzman served in Washington, D.C. as a policy analyst in the U.S. Senate and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (1994-96). In 1996, he was named the Fogarty Professor in Economic Geology at the Colorado School of Mines (CSM) and served as head of the Department of Geology and Geological Engineering from 2002-07. His research in economic geology at CSM was focused on the Central African Copperbelt.
In 2016 he joined the U.S. Geological Survey as the Associate Director for Energy and Minerals. In 2018, he was appointed SFI Research Professor in the School of Earth Sciences and Director of iCRAG, based at University College Dublin.
Edmund Nickless (Chair, International Union of Geological Sciences Resourcing Future Generation initiative
Edmund is a geologist by training and has worked extensively on assessment of industrial mineral resources. From 1997 until his retirement in September 2015 he was Executive Secretary of The Geological Society of London. Previous to that, he held senior posts within the British Geological Survey, the then Science and Technology Secretariat of the Cabinet Office where he was environmental adviser, and the Natural Environment Research Council where he was responsible for research grants, training awards and UK participation in international programmes, principally the Ocean Drilling Program and its successors. Since 2013, he has chaired a group on behalf of IUGS promoting a new initiative, Resourcing Future Generations. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of London, a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, a Chartered Scientist, Chartered Geologist and European Geologist.
Dr Eloise Rogers (iCRAG)
Eloise is a Communications Officer and Research Coordinator with iCRAG. She has a background as a geoscientist and has extensive experience managing large scale geophysical acquisition projects and processing and analysing a range of geophysical datasets.