 The Geological Sciences department has been at UTSA from the earliest days of the University's history.Its research facilities include biogeochemistry, environmental microbiology, hydrogeology, isotope geochemistry, micropaleontology, remote sensing, spatial analysis, and X-ray diffraction.Of the $34 million expended on research for the fiscal year 2008 in the University of Texas at San Antonio, the College of Sciences received 71 percent.