Brian Harland 100
Celebrating the 100th birthday of Walter Brian Harland (1917-2003) Wednesday 22nd March: Visit our online Archive gallery
Brian Harland spent 43 field seasons undertaking geological mapping of the Polar archipelago, Svalbard, beginning in 1938 and ending in the 1990s. He was a demonstrator and lecturer in the Department of Earth Sciences, and was instrumental in the establishment of CASP (Cambridge Arctic Shelf Programme).
To celebrate his birthday (which he shares with Adam Sedgwick) you can learn more about Brian and see photographs and documents from the archive in our online gallery
For further information about the Archives, please contact our archivist Sandra Freshney.
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Celebrating the 100th birthday of Walter Brian Harland (1917-2003) Wednesday 22nd March: Visit our online Archive gallery
Publications
'Tools of the Trade'
Available to purchase in the Sedgwick Museum shop
Agostino Scilla's
'Vain Speculation Undeceived by Sense'
English translation available to download.
Our Rocks are on the Move!
We are reuniting our important rock collections under one roof! Can you help support the building of our new Sedgwick Museum Collections store? Read more and donate here
Friends of the Sedgwick Museum prizewinners give us their thoughts on their time at the Museum in 2016
Click here to read
Work Experience at the Sedgwick - read about our latest student to visit us for two weeks and experience life in a Museum.
Studying Earth Sciences at Cambridge University
Did you know?
The University of Cambridge is listed at the top of The Complete University's Guide 2016 for geology.
Discover more about studying Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge in this video featuring Museum Curator of Mineralogy and Petrology Professor Marian Holness and Sir David Attenborough