Research challenges
GEORESOURCES
The demands of modern society in relation to the subsurface of our planet are increasingly numerous and urgent, which is why the development of new methodologies and technologies for the exploration and exploitation of mineral and energy resources is one of the most pressing challenges that face geosciences.
In addition, society increasingly requests that the exploration and exploitation of these resources be carried out in the most sustainable way possible, which implies carrying out a detailed analysis of potential risks and implementing methodologies to minimise their impact.
- Raw materials
- Energy sources
- Sustainable exploration
- Geological Storage monitoring
GEORISKS & GLOBAL CHANGE
The principal goal is to determine how (to which extent) the main geological and environmental risks, especially those derived from extreme events (volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, large landslides, tsunamis, droughts and floods…), result from the global geodynamics of the planet, and to analyse their cause/effect relationship with global change.
The challenge is in trying, for example, to understand better why some plate movements cause big earthquakes and others do not, or why some earthquakes may trigger volcanic eruptions and others do not. These are questions still unresolved that need to be addressed by the geoscience community.
- Geological natural hazards
- Climate change
- Risk assesment
- Predictive scenarios
GLOBAL GEODYNAMICS
The demands of modern society in relation to the subsurface of our planet are increasingly numerous and urgent, which is why the development of new methodologies and technologies for the exploration and exploitation of mineral and energy resources is one of the most pressing challenges that face geosciences.
In addition, society increasingly requests that the exploration and exploitation of these resources be carried out in the most sustainable way possible, which implies carrying out a detailed analysis of potential risks and implementing methodologies to minimise their impact.
- Internal planetary structure
- Seismic exploration
- Geophysics
- Geodynamic modelling
