The Council for Geoscience is the legislated custodian of all on-shore and off-shore geoscience data and information in South Africa. It aims to use this information to support national development imperatives and to find solutions to critical socioeconomic and natural challenges. The Council for Geoscience aims to find these solutions through high-resolution integrated and multidisciplinary geoscience mapping throughout South Africa. The geoscience mapping programme focusses on the following selected key themes: geoscience for minerals and energy; infrastructure and land-use; water, environment and health; geoscience innovation and geoscience diplomacy. The Council for Geoscience has a national footprint, with offices in Gauteng, Limpopo, KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape, Western Cape and the Northern Cape. It is also supported by a geoscience analytical facility, national seismic monitoring array and the national core repository of South Africa. To enable effective and widespread geoscience data collection, the Council for Geoscience has a number of critical assets. These include extensive on-shore and off-shore, ground- and air-based geophysical instrumentation; aircraft and drone capabilities, drilling capacity and hyperspectral core scanning facilities. With more than 120 years of geoscience data collection and curation, the Council for Geoscience enables science communication and data sharing through its geoscience data portal and library and the national geoscience museum.
Cell: +27 12 841 1911
Tel: 0800 16 13 17
Email: info@geoscience.org.za
https://www.geoscience.org.za/
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