Geologists ensure the supply of clean water, fossil and alternative energy sources, ores and salts, and construction and materials of all kinds. They deal with global climate change, pollution of the atmosphere, soil, waters and oceans, and the causes and effects of natural disasters. They investigate and assess the geological subsurface in construction projects. And much more. Well-trained experts are therefore highly needed for the variety of tasks involved in these geoscientific fields.

Geoscientists – Where do they work?

We use our habitat in many ways: building houses, roads, dams and tunnels, pumping drinking water and petroleum from the depths, extracting the materials used to make metals, ceramics, glass, cement and many other materials in large mining operations on and below the earth's surface.

However, man's use of the earth often leads to threats to the habitat. Pollution of air, soil and water, alteration of large landscape areas and the climate are the consequences. Therefore, the use of natural resources must be planned and controlled, and damage, resulting from human intervention, must be prevented or repaired as far as possible.

In all these activities, geoscientists are involved from preliminary exploration to completion, together with other natural scientists and engineers.