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Environmental geosciences

Coordinators: Dr Ian Cartwrigh and Dr Marc Leblanc

The discipline

Environmental geosciences provides a coherent major or minor sequence of units from within the School of Geosciences program that address how the Earth’s natural environment operates both today and over geological time, and explores the consequences of man’s modification of that environment. It stresses the interaction between natural systems that have long-term variability and short-term impacts of human activity.

Students in environmental geosciences will be given the scientific skills necessary to understand some of the major global environmental issues, understanding and managing groundwater and surface water resources, salinity, pollution, geological hazard mapping and prediction, and understanding the Earth’s long-term climate record.

Sequence requirements

Minor sequence in environmental geosciences (24 points):

• ESC1011 or ENV1011 and
• 18 points from ESC2111, ESC2192, ESC3190, ESC3291, ESC3392

Major sequence in environmental geosciences (48 points):

• ESC1011 or ENV1011, and ESC1022 or ENV1022, and
• ESC2111 and ESC2192, and
• ESC3190, ESC3291, ESC3392, and ESC2122 or any other level-three ESC unit

Double major sequence in environmental geosciences (72 points):

• A major sequence in environmental geosciences, and
• 24 points from any other level-three ESC units or ESC2122