Research Profile

RAE 2008 Outcome - 3.050 Average ranking: “This is a marvellous achievement for us. Earth Sciences was 3rd of all Environment and Earth Science Departments in the UK, and one of only 3 to have an average score higher than 3.0. All our staff were ranked as 2* or better; 80% were ranked 3* or 4*. We came 4th in the ranking of all of UCL departments." Professor Duncan Wingham, Head of UCL Earth Sciences

Research in UCL Earth Sciences takes place within the UCL-Birkbeck Research School of Earth Sciences. Our aim is to pursue world-class research into the processes at work on and within the Earth and planets; we seek to understand the past revealed by their investigation and understood in terms of the laws of physics, chemistry and biology. We aim to do so across the discipline, spanning the dynamics of the Earth and planets, the materials that compose them and their properties, present and past processes occurring at their surfaces, the evolution of life and the environment, and the applied geosciences of pollution, natural hazards and resources.

Our research covers six main areas:

• Structure, Dynamics and Evolution of the Earth and Planets

• Dynamics and Evolution of the Crust

• Palaeoclimate, Palaeobiology and Palaeoenvironments

• Environmental Geochemistry

• Polar Climate Modelling and Change

• Natural Hazards

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