Technical services

BGS offers a number of hydrogeological field services, including:

• aquifer properties characterisation
• borehole drilling supervision
• borehole imaging and interpretation
• borehole testing (pumping, packer, dilution and slug tests)
• core logging
• dissolved gas sampling
• downhole camera and optical imaging
• downhole geophysical logging
• groundwater ecological sampling
• groundwater microbial sampling, including by eDNA
• hydrogeochemical sampling
• soil moisture and soil permeability measurements
• tracer tests

Please contact James Sorensen for more information.

BGS has a range of state-of-the-art analytical facilities that can be used to provide high quality data for groundwater-related studies:

• Aquifer Properties Facility
• Inorganic Geochemistry Facility
• fluorescence-absorbance to characterise organic matter
• groundwater residence times and dissolved gases
• faecal indicator organisms

Please contact Pauline Smedley for more information.

BGS staff have extensive groundwater modelling experience within the UK and internationally. Our modelling services cover groundwater resources, groundwater quality and groundwater hazards, in addition to investigating how groundwater interacts with other environmental systems and processes.

Contact

Please contact contact Chris Jackson or contact Andrew Hughes for further information.

BGS staff undertake groundwater-related consultancy for a wide range of customers both in the UK and internationally. We have worked with government departments, regulatory agencies, industry and academia, and have a strong track record in the management of environmental research programmes.

Please contact Alan Macdonald for more information.

Take a look at the frequently asked questions about groundwater and groundwater flooding and the glossary of commonly used groundwater terminology.

This website is designed to provide an overview of BGS’s groundwater research and to share key information. If you have any questions related to our groundwater science that cannot be answered through this website, we are more than happy to help.

You can contact us about:

• groundwater-related services we offer, including laboratory analysis, data, mapping and consultancy
• any other general enquiries about groundwater that you have not been able to find an answer to here

Please contact BGS Enquiries (enquiries@bgs.ac.uk) and a member of the groundwater team will get back to you.