Our staff training program often features in articles and posts, and we are proud that the whole GRM team embrace the challenge of Continuing Professional Development as part of their career progression.
This has also recently extended to the children of some of our staff too! Laura Hill’s daughter, Blu, had a Careers Day at her school earlier in the summer and went dressed as a GRM Site Engineer, complete with full PPE and ear defenders (we are not sure these would be acceptable during normal lessons!)
Blu has already got the bug for working outside and said at the careers day that more girls should be driving diggers! Watch this space!
Another of our team, George Salloway, recently went on a family trip down to the south coast and used the opportunity to take his children fossil hunting along the world-renowned Jurassic Coast. And it was a fruitful visit too (as are most trips to Charmouth Beach), with plenty of pyritised ammonite and belemnite fossil finds to add to their growing collection.
The now extinct cephalopods found in the Charmouth Beach rocks originally lived in warm tropical seas around 190 million years ago when Britain was situated close to the equator. Their remains settled in soft muds on the ocean floor and became buried, sometimes alongside marine reptiles like ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs. Subsequent burial beneath other sediments, compaction and chemical alteration under anoxic conditions led to some of the beautiful pyritic compositional changes we see preserved today.
Looking at what lies below us is part of our everyday job here at GRM, and it is great to see the next generation already showing an interest at an early age, even if it is with a little help and persuasion from their parents!