The Geomicrobiology Laboratory investigates microbiological processes associated with geological materials and how they impact on the environment.
BGS operates and maintains a wide range of state-of-the-art laboratories and other facilities, which underpin virtually all of our research.
BGS has welcomed the Government’s Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution which highlights the importance of geology and the ongoing need to support essential geoscientific research that will underpin the UK’s long term energy transition.
Developing and using innovative Earth observation techniques to characterise and monitor Earth processes that affect lives and livelihoods.
BGS use drones to gain a perspective of the Earth that is simply not possible with instruments that are based on the ground.
Providing geological data and interpretations concerning the safe storage and disposal of radioactive waste.
The BGS is researching past and current volcanism and volcanic hazards in the Main Ethiopian Rift.
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