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David Smythe - summary CV
David Smythe trained as a geophysicist. He worked initially at the British Geological Survey in Edinburgh, then became Professor of Geophysics at Glasgow University until his early retirement in 1998. He moved to France in 2003, and intermittently consulted for the oil industry.
He pioneered marine deep crustal seismic imaging[1] in the 1980s, and led a multinational geophysical experiment at the world’s deepest borehole, in Arctic Russia[2].
His many papers and public lectures on West Cumbria, from 2007 on, helped to persuade Cumbria County Council to veto the development of a nuclear waste repository[3] in 2013.
His prototype of a new patented 3D medical ultrasound scanner[4] based on geophysical principles has proved the concept, applicable to novel areas like bone strength and intracranial pressure measurement.
After the 2011 Fukushima disaster he published a new objective scale[5] for estimating the magnitude of nuclear accidents, which is becoming recognised[6] as superior to the ‘official’ scale.
Since 2013 he has assisted many local UK groups which are opposed to fracking, by providing them with expert geological reviews.
References
- ^ Smythe, D.K., Dobinson, A., McQuillin, R., Brewer, J.A., Matthews, D.H., Blundell, D.J. and Kelk, B. 1982. Deep structure of the Scottish Caledonides revealed by the MOIST reflection profile. Nature 299, 338-340
- ^ Smythe, D.K., Smithson, S.B. Gillen, C., Humphreys, C., Kristoffersen, Y., Karaev, N.A., Garipov V.Z., Pavlenkova,.N.I. and the Kola-92 Working Group 1994. Project images crust, collects seismic data in world’s largest borehole. EOS Trans. Am. Geophys. Union 75, 473-476.
- ^ Smythe, D.K. 2012. Response to West Cumbria MRWS consultation: Why a deep nuclear waste repository should not be sited in Cumbria. 98 pp + 70 figs. March 2012
- ^ Smythe, D.K. 2004. 3D/4D ultrasound imaging system. US Patent No. 6,702,745, 8 pp.
- ^ Smythe, D. 2011. Points of View: An objective nuclear accident magnitude scale for quantification of severe and catastrophic events. Physics Today, online
- ^ Wheatley, S., Sovacool, B. K. and Sornette, D. Reassessing the safety of nuclear power. Energy Res. Social Sci. 15, 96-100.