Environmental Geoscience, BSc (Hons)

Environmental conditions on our planet are rapidly approaching a critical state and we are facing issues including global climate change, deoxygenation and acidification of our oceans, pollution in various environments, and environmental degradation.What is environmental geoscience?Environmental geoscience provides a holistic understanding of factors influencing environmental conditions on Earth. Environmental geoscientists play a vital role when assessing environmental challenges from local to global scales. This expertise is crucial within the framework of a sustainable environment. You will explore the conditions of Earth's past so you can protect its future, evaluate the risks related to critical environmental issues of global importance, and use your expertise to inform discussions on addressing acute environmental challenges. What will I learn?This degree prepares you for a wide range of careers within environmental geosciences and beyond. It carefully balances data science, programming, and computing skills with traditional field and laboratory skills, along with understanding the functioning of the Earth's environment.You will study a comprehensive range of topics related to the environment, and factors shaping environmental conditions on Earth. We will address physical, chemical and biological processes that control the world's oceans, atmosphere and ecosystems paying particular attention to processes that connect the various environmental settings.You will develop crucial skills needed to address important challenges, including:

• how we predict and mitigate the effects of global climate change

• what tools we can use to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

• why our planet can sustain life

• how we can reduce the effects of environmental pollution

• whether changes in seawater properties will affect the ocean's role as a food source

• how the increased CO2 concentration in seawaters affect life in the ocean

Many of your activities will simulate those that professionals perform in the real world. You will also learn sought-after computational analysis and quantitative skills that are in demand across a range of employment sectors, such as:

• acquiring, analysing, assessing and presenting a wide range of data

• computing skills including programming and use of specialist software

• computer modelling

• Geographical Information Systems (GIS).

• using a range of specialist laboratory techniques

• applying observational and sample collection techniques in the field

We have an extensive network of experts contributing to this degree. Together, we help ensure your degree has real-world relevance and make you highly sought after by employers. Our links provide you with valuable networking and potential employment opportunities and you will be able to meet and interact with professionals from various sectors.This degree offers you flexibility in your studies. You'll be able to build your degree around topics you are curious or passionate about. Open to a world of possibilitiesWe are one of the largest and most successful groups of Earth and environmental scientists and geographers in the UK. Many are world experts in their field. Our staff incorporate the latest research in your teaching, and share discoveries with you.

• We have pioneered research proving human-caused greenhouse gasses are warming our planet, helping to underpin the 2015 Paris Agreement.

• We are working with major space agencies to monitor the environment using satellite data.

• We are 16th in the world in the QS World University Rankings 2022.

• We are in the world's top 50 and the UK's top 10 universities for natural sciences, environmental sciences, geology, geophysics, earth and marine sciences (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2021).

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