The School of Geology is housed within the Faculty of Sciences, the Biology building, the Meteorological Observatory, and the Seismological Station. Within these facilities are located the Department Secretariat, the teaching and other staff of all categories, the library, and the Computer Laboratory.
More specifically, the Schoolt provides:
Classrooms and Lecture Halls
The School has two Lecture Halls and two classrooms, all equipped with projectors, projection screens, and boards:
- Lecture Hall D22: Faculty of Sciences Building, 189 seats
- Lecture Hall Vasileios Kyriazopoulos: Meteorological Observatory, 136 seats
- PDA Classroom: Faculty of Sciences, West Wing, 99 seats
- PAA Classroom: Faculty of Sciences, East Wing, 99 seats
Laboratory Rooms
The Department uses seven laboratory classrooms for students’ practical training. All rooms are equipped with projectors, and have specially arranged workstations with dedicated equipment (crystallographic and metallographic microscopes, stereoscopes, sieves, etc.) and/or specialized educational material for geology training (maps, collections of rocks, minerals, fossils, etc.).
- E01 – Geology and Paleontology Laboratory Room, Ground Floor, Faculty of Sciences, 37 seats
- E11 – Mineralogy Laboratory Room, 1st Floor, Faculty of Sciences, 30 seats
- E12 – Microscopy Laboratory Room, 1st Floor, Faculty of Sciences, 12 seats
- E21 – Physical Geography Laboratory Room, 2nd Floor, Faculty of Sciences, 30 seats
- E22 – Metallographic Microscopy Laboratory Room, Faculty of Sciences, 20 seats
- E23 – Geophysics Division Laboratory Room, 2nd Floor, New Wing, 20 seats
- E24 – Engineering Geology Laboratory Room, 2nd Floor, Faculty of Sciences, 10 seats
Computer Laboratory
The Department of Geology Computer Laboratory is located in the Building of Biology, Ground Floor (room I5) and consists of 26 workstations. It is fully integrated into the centrally managed AUTH Information Technology Center.
The following (indicative) services and software are provided:
- Use of office applications
- Internet access
- Use of educational software installed on the computers for teaching or research purposes (e.g., SPSS, Matlab, Mathematica, TLG, GIS)
- Printing of assignments, texts, etc.
- Access to central AUTH computing systems (e.g., Terminal Servers, File Servers, HPC)
- Support for laboratory exercises through specialized software
- Individual student work (e.g., theses, research activities, etc.)
The Computer Laboratory operates in the morning hours (09:00–13:00), supported by a member of the Special Technical Laboratory Staff (ETEP), providing students with open access for individual work (e.g., literature research, presentations, theses, etc.).
In the afternoon (15:00–21:00), the laboratory supports the Undergraduate Study Program, as it mainly hosts courses requiring computer-based instruction. Through the laboratory computers, students have access to specialized software acquired or licensed to the Department of Geology of AUTH, such as Geographic Information Systems software, geophysical interpretation software, and engineering geology software.
Seismological and Meteorological Station
The Seismological Station (SS) is supervised by the Department of Geophysics and serves as the central station of a network of 48 telemetric stations covering most of the country. Its mission is the continuous monitoring, recording, and analysis of seismic activity in Greece and surrounding regions, as well as informing state authorities, the media, and the public on earthquake-related issues when necessary. The SS is also used within the Undergraduate Study Program for training students in seismology.
The Department of Meteorology and Climatology has operated the AUTH Meteorological Station since 1930, the Olympus Meteorological Station at the summit of Agios Antonios (2,817 m) on Mount Olympus, and additional meteorological stations in the greater Thessaloniki area. The AUTH Meteorological Station is systematically used for the education of undergraduate students in relevant scientific fields.