Measuring the concentration of potentially harmful elements in soils and sediments is an important tool for monitoring environmental pollution.
Volcanic eruptions can be explosive, sending ash, gas and magma high up into the atmosphere, or effusive, producing lava flows and domes.
PRIME is a low-cost system specifically designed to monitor through remote operation for deployment on 'at risk' geotechnical assets (e.g. embankments; cuttings; dams).
The BGS monitors glaciers and the landscape that surrounds them in a number of ways, such as boreholes, ground penetrating radar and hydrometric monitoring.
BGS has a long history of international groundwater research and developing tools for groundwater management.
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