Starting on 7 October 2025, a research team from LIAG, the University of Münster, the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology e.V. and Supracon AG will conduct geophysical measurement flights with a helicopter in the municipality of Harsefeld in the district of Stade. The measurements are part of the GeoMetEr research project. The aim is to develop geophysical measurement and evaluation methods in order to be able to map the geology underground in high resolution. The measurement area focuses on the overburden above salt domes. The Federal Company for Final Storage is funding the research – but only in areas that are excluded as final storage sites.

Schulenburg near Pattensen (Hanover region, Germany) is known to be located on the Leine River. However, it is less well known that around 200 million years ago it was located on or in the sea, which is the subject of a geological investigation currently being carried out by the State Office for Mining, Energy, and Geology (LBEG). A borehole is to be drilled to a depth of 350 meters. LIAG researchers are carrying out part of the borehole geophysics.

Start of the November of Science: LIAG participating as a partner

From 5 to 23 November 2025, Hannover’s universities, research institutions and education organisations invite the public to experiments, talks, discussions and exhibitions under the motto #knowember. More than 100 events can be found online at www.hannover.de/knowember. LIAG is a partner of Initiative Wissenschaft Hannover: at the public opening event on 5 November, researchers will be interviewed at Herrenhausen Palace in Hannover about their stay in Antarctica. On 7 and 13 November 2025, LIAG researchers will take visitors on a research expedition to Antarctica and to the Kalahari.

Nearly 1,000 guests attended the Geothermal Day hosted by the Lower Saxony State Office for Mining, Energy and Geology (LBEG) at the GEOZENTRUM Hannover. Among them: Lower Saxony’s Minister for Economic Affairs, Grant Hendrik Tonne, who spoke with Prof. Dr. Inga Moeck at the LIAG measurement truck to learn about the current state of research on geothermal energy for Germany’s heat transition.

The German Research Foundation is funding the DynaDeep project with around five million euros for another four years. The research group is investigating the transition zone between groundwater aquifers and the sea at high-energy beaches. Much of the research is taking place on Spiekeroog, with further measurements planned in France and Belgium.

The Future Day 2025 at the Geozentrum Hannover was fully booked. 60 pupils attended today's ‘Girls'Day, Boys'Day 2025’ to find out what the three institutions at the Geozentrum - the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, the State Office for Mining, Energy and Geology and LIAG - have to offer in terms of career prospects.

The LIAG Institute for Applied Geophysics (LIAG), an independent, non-university research institution in Hanover, has published its latest research report for the year 2024. The institute looks back on an extremely successful year: with 47 externally funded projects and third-party funding revenues of approximately three million euros, LIAG underscores its central role in applied geophysics research.

New geological data has given more insight into the rate and magnitude of global sea level rise following the last ice age, about 11,700 years ago. This information is of great importance to understand the impact global warming has had on the ice caps and on sea level rise. The findings have been published in the scientific journal Nature by researchers from Deltares, LIAG, BGR, Utrecht University, TNO Netherlands Geological Service, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), University of Leeds, University of Sheffield, University of Amsterdam.

An ambitious mission is underway for critical geological records to forecast future sea-level rise, with the first team members departing on a 1128 km journey over ice to set up camp on the edge of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Project participants from Germany are the LIAG Institute for Applied Geophysics, the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR, Hanover), the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI, Bremerhaven) and the Kiel University (CAU, Kiel).

Southern Africa is one of the areas of the world most affected by drought. In the SeeKaquA project, an international research team led by the LIAG Institute for Applied Geophysics (LIAG) aims to detect deep groundwater resources in the Kalahari using state-of-the-art drone-based electromagnetics. The German-African project, in which the University of Namibia, the University of Zambia, the SADC Groundwater Management Institute, the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) and terratec Geophysical Services are also involved, is being funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) with 1.3 million €.