EuroGeoSurveys member surveys are important actors of the European research area, and have long standing experience in cooperating together as well as with other partners from academia, research institutes, industry, consultancies, engineering firms and civil society. Their research activities cover all the geology related themes such as
- Climate change
- CO2 disposal and sequestration
- Coastal areas observation, monitoring and management, monitoring and mapping of erosion/ sedimentation processes)
- Earth observation technologies at all scales from nano (laboratory techniques) to macro (remote sensing)
- Energy resources (exploration, use and management of fossil and the renewable geothermal energy)
- Environmental management and monitoring
- Environmental remediation
- Geochemistry (nature and distribution of chemical elements/ compounds in rocks, soil, surface and groundwater)
- Geological data acquisition, conservation, modelling/ processing and dissemination
- Geological information digital infrastructure development and management
- Natural and man-made heritage conservation and promotion (geoparks,geo-tourism)
- Marine domain geology
- Mineral resources (exploration, use and management)
- Natural hazards of geological origin (Characterisation, impact modelling, impact mitigation, historical databases, mapping, monitoring, zoning)
- Radioactive waste storage (Site identification and characterisation, impact assessment, modelling, very long-term forecasting of the evolution of site conditions)
- Soils (characterisation, mapping, monitoring, protection, soil/ groundwater interface modelling, migration and natural attenuation of pollutions)
- Security (detection technologies of dangerous substances)
- Waste (characterisation, impact assessment, processing, recycling, remediation, site selection)
- Water (groundwater exploration; groundwater bodies qualitative, quantitative and dynamic characterisation; groundwater management/ protection; groundwater remediation)
The list of European research projects to which one or several EuroGeoSurveys members contributes, not infrequently as project coordinators is available here . This Excel table provides a short description of over 200 projects, a link to their individual web pages, the names of the partners that are/ were part of the project, the name of the coordinating organisation, keywords and filtering tools for easy sorting and retrieval of information. The diversity and richness of this research effort documents the wide range of expertise and capacities available in European Geological Surveys in support of sustainable development, good governance, the sustainable use of natural resources and the mitigation of the impacts of natural resources.