BGS has been awarded the NERC-Arctic grant for a collaboration project with Iceland GeoSurvey.
Providing independent and expert geological advice, research and data acquisition to anyone working in the marine environment.
International research illustrates the opportunities and challenges that robots and autonomous systems, could bring for urban biodiversity and ecosystems in the future.
Applications range from mineral exploration and waste management, to monitoring active processes within the subsurface, such as the movement of pollutants, or the flow of groundwater in unstable slopes affecting infrastructure.
Project Iceberg aims to address the serious issue of the lack of information about the ground beneath our cities and the un-coordinated way in which the subsurface space is managed.
We are working with partners at the University of Nairobi to undertake a baseline survey of emerging contaminants in two contrasting rivers of Nairobi.
Investigating how salt marshes store and interact with plastics and explaining the key processes that control their accumulation and release.
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