Earth and Environmental
Research Overview
The Korea Basic Science Institute’s (KBSI) Earth and Environmental Research plays a central role in domestic earth and environmental sciences, based on world-class infrastructure for age-dating and isotope analysis.
It conducts multidisciplinary convergence research to address national and social issues, such as comprehensive responses to earth-environmental issues, precise age-dating in earth sciences and paleoanthropology, active fault surveys, climate change studies, origin tracing of agricultural products and pollutants, radioactive contamination remediation technologies, and mineral resource acquisition.
Research Groups
Representative Research Equipment
SHRIMP
High-Resolution Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer
IMS 1300
Ultra-High-Resolution Isotope Microscope System