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The Department of Earth Sciences at UCL lies in the heart of London on the Bloomsbury campus. Our research spans a diverse range of activities including: crustal processes, Earth and planetary evolution, mineral physics, palaeobiology and palaeoclimatology, polar observation and modelling, natural hazards, environmental geochemistry and sedimentology.

Our teaching, reflecting the diversity of our research, encompasses a wide range of undergraduate and taught graduate programmes together with an active body of graduate research students.

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Research: Geodesic carbon nanodomes and the Eden Project connection - a paper by Monica Pozzo and Dario Alfe was selected for a Viewpoint in Physics; Pysical Review Letters. More...

Research: Journey to the Centre of a Volcano: UCL Earth Scientists are poised to unlock the secrets inside a volcano. More... European Space Agency supports research on stability of Canary Island volcano. More...

Research: The CryoSat2 mission is ready to map the ice fields of the Arctic and the Antarctic; Duncan Wingham explains the mission on BBC News. More...

Awards: Department secured 4 grants from NERC in the latest round. More...

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