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Research excellence
Sustainable development demands an ever improving, robust and rigorous scientific understanding of the materials, resources and processes of the Earth, its atmosphere and the Solar System. We are well placed to make significant contributions in all these challenging areas in both pure and applied contexts.
The School is home to several internationally renowned research groups (Grade 5 in the Research Assessment Exercise 2001) with world class research facilities.
North Africa Research Group (NARG)
The North Africa Research Group (NARG) conducts multi-disciplinary basin analysis research with a petroleum geoscience theme in Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Libya and Tunisia. The research includes projects with integrated sedimentology, geochemistry, seismic interpretation, petrophysics and reservoir engineering.
The Rift Analogues Project (TRAP)
TRAP aims to develop quantitative, high resolution sedimentological and sequence stratigraphic models of various rift settings in order to build reservoir models generally applicable to rift basins world-wide.
The Environment at Manchester (TEAM)
The University of Manchester is the UK's largest, and is home to a world class community of researchers with environment and sustainable development linked interests distributed across more than a dozen schools and research centres. Through this website, TEAM (The Environment at Manchester) provides a single portal to help signpost our wide spectrum of environment related-research expertise and postgraduate teaching.
LiDAR
Integrating LiDAR, DGPS, photogrammetry and traditional field methods are important for improved understanding of sedimentology and structure. These quantitative techinques are applied to petroleum geology and geo-conservation among others.