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Area of study: Geosciences

  • Geoscience is a dynamic interdisciplinary science that combines chemistry, physics, mathematics, computing, biology and physical geography in a study of the earth as a planetary body.
  • The geosciences encompass the two main disciplines of geology and geophysics and also branch into a range of related sciences including environmental and water science and computational geoscience.
  • Environmental geoscience applies this field to problems such as land stability, earthquakes, coastal monitoring, climate change, waste management, hydrogeology, land reclamation and the monitoring of mining exploration.
  • Work often combines laboratory and fieldwork.
  • Field data and samples are analysed by highly sophisticated equipment and results processed by the most up to date computer technology.