Our habitable environment at the Earth's surface is linked and controlled by processes occurring deep within the Earth. Earth scientists use, inter alia, geophysical techniques to study deep Earth processes ranging from changes in the Earth's magnetic field to plate tectonics to understand better the Earth as a dynamic planet. Those processes are also relevant to natural resource exploration, distribution and management of groundwater resources and the study and mitigation of natural hazards such as earthquakes.

• IGCP 648-Supercontinent Cycles and Global Geodynamics - OET in 2020
  
• IGCP 662-Orogenic architecture and crustal growth from accretion to collision
• IGCP 667-World Map of the Orogens
• Project 683-Pre-Atlantic geological connections among northwest Africa, Iberia and eastern North America: Implications for continental configurations and economic resources (2020)
• Project 709-High pressure-Ultrahigh pressure metamorphism and geochemical cycles in subduc tion zones (2020)
• Project 710-Western Tethys meets Eastern Tethys (2020)