Geology and Geophysics

As we move further into the 21st century, geologists and geophysicists will be needed more than ever to help tackle our planet’s most pressing environmental challenges, including the energy transition to a low-carbon future, ensuring global food and water security, and understanding and mitigating the impacts of climate change and natural hazards. The geosciences include a whole range of different ways of understanding the planet we live on.

The main subdivisions are Geology, which includes the study of the Earth’s materials, history, processes, resources and natural hazards, Geophysics , which involves the applications of physics to many of the same areas through the use of sound waves, gravity and electromagnetism, and Environmental Geoscience , which studies the interplay between geological processes, ecological systems, and human society.

Geoscientists are experts at multi-disciplinary science as the diversity of the subject draws heavily on the fields of physics, chemistry, biology and maths, and makes extensive use of computers to process and analyse large datasets and run models and simulations of Earth processes.

Explore the outreach opportunities for geology and geosciences below.