🔬 Basic Sciences Division

The Basic Sciences Division (BSC) provides the theoretical foundation and fundamental science support that underpins all applied research across the lab, with the goal of becoming a recognized center for interdisciplinary basic science bridging theory and application. It spans five core domains - mathematics and numerical methods, physics and wave mechanics, chemistry and geochemistry, earth sciences and geodynamics, and biology and biogeochemistry - developing fundamental theories and mathematical frameworks that other divisions draw on for applied, resource- and hazard-oriented work.