A new £17 million earth and marine science and technology research centre is to open in Edinburgh.
The British Geological Survey (BGS) and Heriot-Watt University are teaming up to run the Sir Charles Lyell Centre, which will be jointly funded by the university, Natural Environment Research Council and Scottish Funding Council.
The research centre aims to find ways of bringing science and technology together to look at sustainable energy supply and resource issues, along with global change and ecosystems, seafloor-mapping and earthquake and volcanic risk and monitoring and energy security.
The geological survey aims to relocate its Edinburgh offices to the new facility once it opens in 2015.
“I view the creation of the new centre as an extraordinary opportunity to broaden our science base by partnering in key areas with Heriot-Watt University, in particular in geology and geophysics related to energy, urban renewal and the sea-floor,” said BGS executive director Professor John Ludden.
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