Key Research Areas
The GEOTECHNOLOGIEN programme focuses it's research on recent scientific and social geosciences related aspects.
13 highly innovative Key Research Areas are defined, showing the broad spectrum of geo-scientific disciplines while being open to interdisciplinary research joint ventures. To link all scientific disciplines to understand the System Earth and all it's components is the primary target of all research within GEOTECHNOLOGIEN.
The Key Research Areas are:
- Technologies for a sustainable storage of carbon dioxide in geological formations
- Early Warning Systems in Earth Management
- Gas Hydrates in the Geo-System
- Information Systems in Earth Management
- Global Climate Change – Causes and Effects
- Continental Margins – Earth’s Focal Points in Usage and Hazard Potential
- Mineral Surfaces – From Atomic Processes to Geotechnology
- Sedimentary Basins – Mankind’s Greatest Resource
- Geochemical Cycles – Links Between Geosphere and Biosphere
- The Combined System Earth - Life
- Tomography of the Earth’s Crust – From Geophysical Sounding to Real-Time Monitoring
- Innovative Prospecting Technologies
- Observation of the System Earth from Space
The areas "Innovative Prospecting Technologies" and "Technologies for a sustainable Storage of Carbon Dioxide in Geological Formations" represent the Key Research Area Investigation, Use and Protection of the Underground.
