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Centre for planetary Resiliance and Resources (CPRR) |
 Earth Sciences |
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Centre for planetary Resiliance and Resources (CPRR) |
Earth Sciences |
| CPRR researches the structure,
composition, dynamics, energy and resources of planetary bodies in our solar
system, including importantly our own home planet, Earth. Energy is fundamental to many of the most pressing issues facing us today affecting our well-being, environment, economies and society. Royal Holloway seeks a future of Living Sustainably with Transformative Digital Technology. CERES, the Centre for Energy and Resources, focuses on the energy and mineral resources of the Earth and how these can be used sustainably and for the benefit of humanity. Renewable energy requires significant geological input (e.g. engineering geology underpinned by shallow geophysical surveys). CPRR brings together skills in geophysics, bio-geochemistry, sedimentology, structural geology, fluid-flow and risk-analysis from researchers of the Department of Earth Sciences which has been a major UK center for research/teaching of Earth-resource exploitation since 1985.  Current research topics• The origin of life and the volatile content of meteorites• Earthquake history and paleoseismology of major faults in South East Asia • Development of space missions to Venus to study its tectonics and dynamics • Mantle sources of Icelandic magmatism • Velocity and density structure of Earth’s lowermost mantle • Subsurface Energy Storage • Groundwater • Geothermal Energy • Reservoir properties in sedimentary basins • Fractures and faults • Solar Energy • Laboratory analogue modeling • Computer Modeling
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