Jennifer McKinley is a scientist from

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, UK. She is currently a Reader at the School of Natural and Built Environment,

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. Her main areas of research interest include geostatistics, GIS, soil geochemistry, forensics geoscience, weathering. She is the elected president of

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for the period during 2016–2020. She was awarded Chartered Fellow of the

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in 2009, a Fellowship awarded competitively. In May 2024 she resigned as President of the Governing Council of the Chinese Government funded Deep-time Digital Earth (DDE) initiative (source: https://www.iugs.org/dde).

Education

*BSc (Hons) in Geology, 1984,

*PGCE, 1985,

*PhD in Geology, 2001,

Employment

*2016–Present: Reader, School of Natural and Built Environment,

*2010 – 2016: Senior Lecturer, School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology (GAP)

*2004 – 2010: Lecturer, School of GAP,

*2001 – 2004: EPSRC Post-doctoral Research Fellow, School of GAP,

*1995 – 1998: Associate Lecturer, Open University Belfast *1985 – 1987: Teacher, Regent House Grammar school, Newtownards, Co Down

Books

*Alastair Ruffell, Jennifer McKinley, "Geoforensics", John Wiley & Sons, 2008, p. 340.

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