Access to Expertise

Advanced GeoScience Facilities

We are exceptionally well-equipped with the latest technologies to enable our researchers to stay at the forefront of their fields.

The School houses an impressive range of facilities and services and is involved with a number of collaborative centres of research excellence. For example, we have a wide range of high-tech facilities for the analysis of rocks, minerals and fluids, for isotope analysis and measurement of the physical properties of rocks. We have excellent facilities and expertise for scientific computing in geographic information systems, meteorological models and geophysics. We also place a strong emphasis on field measurement techniques in ecological, atmospheric and earth sciences.

Link: https://www.ed.ac.uk/geosciences/facilities