Research Groups and Affiliated Institutes

UCL Hazard Centre

One of Europe’s leading multidisciplinary academic centres for hazard and risk research & education.

Crystallography and Mineral Physics

Research into to the composition, structure, dynamics and evolution of the Earth and terrestrial planets.

The London Geochemistry and Isotope Centre

Chemical & isotopic investigations of natural materials using analytical & experimental approaches to investigate processes both now and in the past.

Hydrogeology Research

We research the combined influences of hydrogeological and geochemical processes on groundwater conditions.

London Geochronology Centre

To understand how continents deform and surface topography develops over different spatial/temporal scales.

Palaeontology

The study of past life from the smallest & most abundant fossils to the largest animals ever to walk on land, the gigantic sauropod dinosaurs, and includes the search for Earth’s oldest organisms.

Precambrian Research

For over a century, we have known that crucial steps along the path to the modern earth system took place during the first four billion years of our planet’s existence.

Rock & Ice Physics Laboratory

Understanding the physical behaviour of ice and rocks making up the surface and interior solid bodies in the solar system

UCL Seismolab

Understanding fundamental processes governing earthquake genesis, Earth's interior and their evolution.

UCL Shale Gas Hub

Study the issue of shale gas from the fundamental processes within shale formations.

Polar Research

Studying processes in the Earth's polar latitudes that affect polar atmosphere,ocean circulation & global sea level.

Earth Resources Centre

We research all aspects of Earth Resources, from the geological processes which form them to better methods for exploration, extraction, processing and remediation.

Deep Volatiles

NERC funded research programme: Volatiles, Geodynamics & Solid Earth Controls on the Habitable Planet.