Dr Susan Currie

Susan was born and brought up in North-East England. After doing a Ph.D. in Geology she worked in the UK oil industry as a geologist for 27 years. She spent time off-shore in the North Sea on oil rigs and platforms, and did geology field work in the USA, Spain, and Sardinia, and office-based geology in Aberdeen and London. Between 2008 and 2012 she worked for the UK Government in the Department of Energy and Climate Change. During her time in the oil industry she published geo-science papers in academic journals, assisted on the M.Sc. Course in Petroleum Geology at Aberdeen University, and served on the Fellowship Committee of the Geological Society of London.

In 2002 she was offered a chance to work on an expedition-cruise ship in Antarctica as a lecturer and for 10 years worked part-time on expedition-cruise ships while working in the oil industry. In 2012 she left the oil industry to work on expedition-cruise ships full-time. Susan works internationally around the world in polar, temperate and tropical regions. Her geological interests are wide and - in addition to rocks and landscape formation - encompass the history of geology, plate tectonics, glaciology, earthquakes, volcanoes, and “precious” rocks (gemstones). She really enjoys travelling to less-populated areas which offer spectacular scenery.