Across Wales, Geology & Landscape: Wales (GLW) contributes to the advancement of high quality geoscience, linking research to today's environmental and social challenges.
Collaborating widely, our Cardiff-based team ensures that excellent scientific outputs contribute to the needs of local and central government in Wales, non-govermental organisations, academia and informs the wider community.
Ongoing geological survey in North Wales aims to provide new data on superficial and bedrock geology in the region and deliver a platform for investigating impacts and processes of environmental change as well as ancient geological processes.
The Digital Integrated Stratigraphy Project (DISP) is a web-based, open access, digital resource for stratigraphy. The project aims to eliminate stratigraphic ambiguity associated with sample position within a stratigraphic section.
Projects include the South Wales RIGS Audit which will identify the best geodiversity sites in the region. We are also working with Fforest Fawr Geopark and Epynt Ranges on projects that raise public awareness of our geological heritage.
Encouraging an interest in earth science amongst schools and the general public. Activities include rocks and fossils workshops for primary schools, and also information and resources for secondary through to university level and local interest groups.
A project jointly funded by the Aggregate Levy Sustainability Fund for Wales to identify and present spatially the significant mineral resource occurrences across Wales. Knowledge about mineral resources is essential for making effective and sustainable planning decisions and will enable better quality engagement, consultation and debate.
This initiative is drawing on archival coal seam data and new information to develop an interactive 3D model of the South Wales coalfield, which has a range of applications in the research of new clean coal technologies for the energy sector.