Unit information: Environmental Geoscience Research Project in 2010/11

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Unit name Environmental Geoscience Research Project
Unit code EASC30040
Credit points 30
Level of study H/6
Teaching block(s) Teaching Block 4 (weeks 1-24)
Unit director Emeritus Professor. Sherman
Open unit status Not open
Pre-requisites
Co-requisites
School/department School of Earth Sciences
Faculty Faculty of Science

Description including Unit Aims

Students undertake and experience the process of conducting an independent research investigation integrating field, laboratory and computational methods. Each year, 5 different projects are offered; each project is supervised by a member of staff and can be done by 4 to 5 students. Although some aspects of the project work may be conducted as a group (e.g., data gathering during fieldwork), each student completes their own literature review, laboratory experiments, synthesis of data, computational work and write-up. This unit is available only to Single Honours Environmental Geoscientists.