Zoe Shipton on fracking

The Life Scientific

BBC

Technology, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Science

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2014

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Zoe Shipton's fascination with rocks started when she was a child and her father took her camping on a volcano. Now a professor of geology at Strathclyde University she talks to Jim al-Khalili about her research into the way that the earth faults. This has lead her to studying the aftermath of a major earthquake in Taiwan and drilling into rocks in remote parts of Utah. Recently she has been part of a Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering committee that has produced a report on the potential impact of fracking for gas on the UK.

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0:34.0	Zoe Shipton has had a fascination with rocks since she was a child.
0:39.0	Living in the penines, she had nightmares about the hill behind her house turning into a volcano.
0:45.0	And when she was just eight, her father took her on a camping trip to see an active volcano,
0:50.0	Strombally on one of the Eolian islands of Sicily.
0:53.0	So it wasn't a surprise that Zoe became a geologist
0:57.0	and her career has taken her all over the world
0:59.0	to areas where the surface of the earth is in danger of moving.
1:03.0	She's been to the most seismically active places on the planet,
1:06.0	where earthquakes have either just happened or may do so in the near future.
1:10.0	Now she's a professor of geological engineering at Strathclyde University.
1:14.4	Her knowledge of the processes that go on under our feet has drawn her into some of the most
1:18.9	controversial issues today around energy, such as how could we safely bury radioactive waste and now
1:26.0	Zoe Shipton's part of a committee that reports on the future of fracking in the
1:30.1	UK. Welcome Zoe to the Life Scientific. Could you have guessed when you started off
1:35.1	in geology that your career would lead you to having to address such
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