The GeoResources Institute (GRI) actively interacts with regional, state and federal governments and agencies, private landowners, and other organizations to identify and prioritize environmental concerns. Depending on the identified issue, the GRI works with this diverse clientele to develop:

• Applied or fundamental research projects to fill knowledge gaps; and
• Pilot projects to demonstrate, validate, and verify the operational efficiency of potential solutions.

Spatial technologies are often the foundation of the interdisciplinary teams necessary for these complex, comprehensive projects, demonstrating significant efficiencies in data integration, data mining, and for long term planning and monitoring both in the laboratory and in the field.

These longstanding GRI programs are the basis of new and continuing projects to identify and develop state-of-the-art comprehensive approaches and systems to allow more efficient, effective and accurate management and regulatory decisions to provide environmentally sound economic development and quality of life for future generations.