What is Earth Science?
Earth science, one of the seven basic disciplines, is a basic discipline that studies the processes and changes of the Earth system (including the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, biosphere, and solar-terrestrial space) and their interactions, including geology, Geography, and other derivative disciplines. Earth science is a big topic, spanning tens of thousands of miles, hundreds of millions of years up and down, and radiating to almost every other field of natural science. The understanding of the earth is closely related to the origin, history, culture and progress of this world civilization.
- To
- German Federal Institute for Earth Sciences and Natural Resources
- World-renowned research institutes
- English name
- Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Researcg (abbreviation: FIGNR)
- address
- Stilleweg 2, Postfach 51 01 53, D-3000 Hannover 51
- Research areas
- Responsible for advising the various ministries of the federal government on various geoscience and natural resource issues, and participating in research projects of the federal government in Germany and developing countries, especially projects in the following fields: energy resources (raw materials, geothermal), metal mineral resources ( Exploration, supply and demand analysis), industrial minerals and rocks, groundwater, soil, environmental protection, civil technical safety issues (structures of rock, salt rock and soil, and disposal of radioactive waste), earth science research (ocean research, Antarctic research, seismology, Remote sensing, radiation dating, earth science maps). [4]