The UGEG comprises participants from across EGS members. There are thirty Geological Surveys involved in the expert group.

 The UGEG is involved in a series of activities with the objective of making aware to the non-scientific community the ground beneath our feet.

The activities the UGEG is working on are:

• Urban Climate footprint (UGF). A tool developed to classify cities from a geological point of view that is easy to understand by the non-experts. Similar geological-geographical settings can have similar challenges to manage. http://ugf.isprambiente.it/index.html

• Thematic factsheets. A series of factsheets on specific topics to promote geo-challenges related to the urban areas in a simple language for the non-scientific community.

  • Shallow geothermal

  • Radon

  • Extreme climate events due to climate change

  • Groundwater

• Integrated Geo City Information Modelling (GeoCIM). Providing relevant and more accessible geoscience data to the user at the right time and in the right format is crucial to improve efficiency in planning and development, for resource extraction and to reduce the impacts of geological hazards. A way to achieve this is by combining geoscience-data with data exchange, informatics, and 3D geological modelling for example, by applying the City Information Modelling (CIM) philosophy to enable users to develop a subsurface “Digital twin”. The main challenges are data fusion, interoperability, and uncertainty management.

RESILIENT CITIES NEED SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF THE SUBSURFACE. WHY? WATCH THE VIDEO:

This video is made by the Czech Geological Survey in collaboration with the Norwegian Geological Survey and funded by EEA Norway Grants (2021)

 THE SUB-URBAN GROUP HAS EVOLVED INTO THE URBAN GEOLOGY EXPERT GROUP, A PART OF THE EUROGEOSURVEYS (EGS). READ MORE IN THE LINK: HTTPS://ARCG.IS/0VKK9O0