Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics
| Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics | |
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 Headquarters in Hanover |
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| Category: | research Institute |
| Carrier: | legally independent |
| Legal form of the carrier: | Institute of public right |
| Membership: | Leibniz Association |
| Facility location: | Hanover |
| Branch office: | Grubenhagen |
| Type of research: | Applied research |
| Subjects: | Natural sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | Geophysics , geosciences |
| Basic funding: | Federal government (50%), states (50%) |
| Management: | (acting) Prof. Manfred Frechen |
| Employee: | approx. 90 |
| Homepage: | www.leibniz-liag.de |
The Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics ( LIAG ), formerly the Institute for Joint Geoscientific Tasks (GGA Institute), as an institution under public law, is a supraregional research institution for applied geophysics with a special focus on geosciences .
The institute is a member of the Leibniz Association and, together with the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources and the State Office for Mining, Energy and Geology, forms the Geozentrum Hannover , which is under joint administration. Approx. 90 employees work at LIAG. The total budget amounts to 9.7 million euros, of which 2.4 million euros as third-party funds were raised (as of 2013) .
Areas of responsibility
The main research goal is the investigation of processes in the anthropogenically influenceable subsoil, in the run-up to and as a result of an economic use as well as for the general interest and the protection of the environment. Accordingly, the central task areas are the exploration of structures and conditions of the subsurface including their development in space and time. The working areas are mainly in Europe.
The institute focuses its work on time-limited, thematically oriented research areas in the field of physical geosciences. The current focus is on:
- Structure, quality and processes of groundwater systems , e.g. B. the dynamics of groundwater in large-scale underground channel systems
- Geothermal energy, research prior to the economic use of geothermal energy, such as the productivity of deep, geothermally usable aquifers
- Structure, genesis and age of terrestrial sediment systems , such as the most powerful Quaternary deposits in the Upper Rhine Rift
- Methodical developments: Research work on the development of measurement and evaluation methods in the specialist disciplines of seismics , gravimetry , geomagnetics , geoelectrics , electromagnetics , geothermics , rock physics , geochronology , isotope hydrology , borehole geophysics , information systems and others
The LIAG operates the specialist information system Geophysics and the geothermal information system GeoTIS to store its and other geophysical measurement data and to make them available
The usually interdisciplinary projects are often carried out together with partners. These are the universities, other research institutions, government geological services, and companies and industrial companies.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 24 '17.4 " N , 9 ° 49' 19.4" E