A graduate of the University College of Swansea, David joined the British Antarctic Survey in 1965 and spent two months geological mapping in South Georgia and then 2 years at the Halley Bay station on the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica, from where he travelled to the Theron Mountains to carry out geological mapping.
Above: Husvik Harbour at the head of Stromness Bay in South Georgia with the abandoned whaling station: the white building to the right on the shoreline is the Manager's house which was David's base for two months while he mapped the area between Cumberland West Bay and Fortuna Bay.
On his return to the UK, he spent over 3 years working on the specimens collected and writing up his results. He was awarded a PhD from the University of Birmingham for his thesis on “The geology of the Theron Mountains, Antarctica” in 1973. He still retains a strong interest in Antarctica and the Polar regions in general.
Above: Lenton Bluff in the Theron Muntains with part of David's dog team in the foreground; the dog sledges were used for travel while mapping the geology: Permian sediments are intruded by a 30m thick dolerite sill at the base of the cliffs and a thicker sill, over 200m thick at the top.
