John Midgley

John is a professional geoscientist, engineer and environmentalist, with more than 30 years experience of investigating the subsurface using remote sensing and boreholes. He has applied his skills primarily in oil and gas exploration field operations with side projects in gas storage and borehole salt mining. He has over a decade of applied carbon storage research focused on on-site characterization, monitoring and verification, and the management of research projects. This led to several years as a technical manager for the British Geological Survey as borehole sciences and engineering specialist before returning to consultancy and research on specialized drilling projects. His current research is focused on borehole sequestration of certain nuclear materials and Risk Management of borehole designs for carbon storage and drilling into volcanoes.