International We are a leading provider of applied geoscience services and have for many years had an extensive international programme of research, survey and monitoring, and data management and dissemination. Much of our work is directed towards development issues and includes major institutional strengthening programmes in the developing world. Nepal monsoon monitoring Soon after the M7.8 earthquake in Gorkha, Nepal, in early 2015, our scientists led a rapid-response team using satellite imagery to map and characterise several thousand landslides and to assess their impact on people and the environment. In 2015 and 2016 we used optical and radar satellite imagery to monitor Nepal throughout the monsoon to assess the effects of landslides on the landscape that had been destabilised by the earthquake. This was achieved through funding from the Department for International Development (DfID) via the Science for Humanitarian Emergencies and Resilience (SHEAR) programme, along with imagery provided by the European Space Agency and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR/UNOSAT– UNITAR’s Operational Satellite Applications Programme). Furthermore, in September 2015 we presented our monitoring work to a consultative workshop in Kathmandu. Soil geochemistry and human health Together with partners from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the World Health Organisation’s cancer research agency based in Lyon, France, we have been working on a number of projects aimed at linking geochemistry and crop data with areas in which oesophageal cancers are prevalent. We conducted a survey of environmental samples in West Kenya, ranging from the 22 Annual science review
Annual Science Review 2015-2016
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