The DGGS is charged by state statute to generate new, objective, peer reviewed information about the geology of Alaska, the potential of Alaska’s land for production of minerals, fuels, and construction materials, and the potential geologic hazards to its people and infrastructure. The division performs geological and geophysical mineral inventory mapping, generates new geologic data to support energy exploration, conducts hazard investigations, performs geologic and hazards studies on active volcanoes, and archives and disseminates geologic data and reports.
