Research facilities

The School has excellent research, laboratory and computing facilities for use by staff and students, including:

• Stable-Isotope Laboratory (SILLA)
• Facility for Environmental Nanoscience Analysis and Characterisation (FENAC)
• Geoscience Precision Cutting Laboratory
• Birmingham Institute of Forest Research (BIFoR)
• Wolfson Advanced Glasshouses
• environmental health research facilities, featuring state-of-the-art analytical instruments
• newly equipped laboratories for freshwater research, funded by the Wolfson Foundation
• fully equipped palaeomagnetic and rock preparation laboratories
• Geosciences Microscope Facilities
• Rock Magnetics Laboratory
• analytical facilities for solid and liquid analysis
• state-of-the-art Earth imaging and visualisation laboratory for teaching
• extensive computing capabilities for modelling seismic and sidescan-sonar data, groundwater flow modelling and satellite image analysis
• a comprehensive Map Library 

The School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences is also home to:

• The Lapworth Museum of Geology, one of the finest geological museums in the UK
• The MRG Conzen collection.

In addition, staff and research students have access to many other facilities on campus including SEM and TEM facilities with microprobe capability at the University Electron Microscopy Centre; mass spectroscopy, raman and laser ablation facilities; PIXE, XRD, force and electron microscopes.