Our research addresses issues related to the sustainability of water resources and quality, impacts of environmental change on the water cycle, natural hazards, and human health.
BGS undertakes research to better understand the potential for using groundwater as a renewable geothermal energy source.
Identifying communities that are particularly vulnerable to future earthquake hazards.
Since the 1960s, the BGS has amassed considerable geochemical data holdings and developed significant expertise in applied geochemistry.
BUFI is the home of doctoral research at the BGS, which is one of the UK’s largest providers of postgraduate research training in geoscience.
Recently there has been a trend towards the collection of ever-more quantitative data, as exemplified by the Tellus projects.
Dam and slope failures can lead to the wide-scale destruction of property and, in some cases, catastrophic loss of life.
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