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Professor Jane Ann Plant CBE FREng FRSE CEng FIMMM FRSA FRGS CGeol FGS
Anglo American Professor of Geochemistry, Department of Earth Sciences
and Engineering, Imperial College London
 Jane Plant is a leading engineering geochemist who has done outstanding
work to reduce the risks from hazardous substances, both to human health and the environment.
She was the first female President of the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Jane is an
international expert on chemicals in the environment, especially naturally occurring
radionuclides such as uranium and the trace elements arsenic and selenium. She developed the
BGS Geochemical Baseline of the Environment (G-BASE) programme and her methods are also used
by a similar programme run by the International Union of Geosciences. She has used the data for
many environmental studies, for example, to identify the relationship between a lack of available
selenium in parts of China with the incidence of a type of heart disease.
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