Britain is facing a chronic shortage of geophysicists as fewer students choose to study geophysical science at university and leading scientists in the field retire, a new study reveals. The problem has reached crisis point and if the current rates of decline continue there will be no geophysics undergraduates by 2030, the British Geophysical Association report warns. Geophysicists study climate change, radioactive waste disposal, nuclear test surveillance, energy supply, global water resources, archaeological heritage, earthquakes and volcanoes.However, despite the vast job opportunities for geophysicists amid increased warnings about climate change, global water shortages and increased demand for energy, the geophysical sciences are failing to attract young people.