Institute of Geonics AS CR, v. v. i.

Characteristics

Mission of the Institute is defined as scientific research of Earth crust materials and processes and their effects on the environment. Research activities are aimed predominantly to the field of processes induced by human activities in the Earth crust. Main topics of Institute's research activities can be defined as follows: structure and properties of materials of upper part of Earth crust including anthropogenic sediments; physical laws and mechanisms of induced processes in rock mass; methods and instruments for both laboratory and in-situ research of induced processes; mathematical methods and their application in computer simulation of processes in rock mass; unconventional methods of exploitation of Earth crust (geotechnologies, disintegration, influencing rock mass properties, special methods of waste materials depositions); geography of the environment.

The Institute participates successfully in number of national and international projects as well as in industrial projects. Specific areas in which the Institute can offer its long-time expertise, methods and instrumentation are: rock properties and petrology, geomechanical and geotechnical research, material disintegration, image processing and analysis, applied mathematics, physicochemical processes in minerals, geophysics and special measurement methods, safety research, and environmental geography.

Institute of Geonics AS CR
Brno branch

Originally known as the Mining Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Ostrava, the Institute of Geonics was founded in 1982. After 1989, structural changes in the Institute resulted in its reduction and, at the same time, Brno Branch was incorporated into the Institute structure. Since 1993, the Institute has the name the Institute of Geonics (geonics stands for area of geosciences focused on processes induced by human factor).

The Institute has a seat at its own premises in Ostrava and Brno. Total number of employees is slightly above 100.