Our intensive field courses within Australia offer you the chance to apply what you have learned in other courses in an intensive and enriching environment.
Trips are residential and generally take place in Central, Northern and tropical Queensland over two weeks in the July mid-semester break.
You'll come away with an appreciation of the issues surrounding the management and sustainable development of various natural and rural systems in the tropical marine, coastal and semi-arid environments that you visit.
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ENVM3107: Northern Tour field excursion
Description
You'll explore and apply fundamental concepts in an enriching environment.
This residential study tour is a required component of the Bachelor of Environmental Management program. You'll explore the themes of:
sustainable development in sensitive environments
the role of biodiversity offsets
indigenous Australians and sustainable development, with a focus on the Wild Rivers debate and coastal development.
You'll be encouraged to make connections across and between themes at a local and global scale, and have the chance to apply fundamental concepts within this field of study in an intensive and enriching environment.
Open to: internal undergraduates (BEnvMan - SD students only).
Location: Far North Queensland
Duration: 9 days during mid-year break (15 - 23 July) Semester 2 2022
Cost: extra fees are payable. Based on previous years, approximately $800-900 (all inclusive: accommodation, food and transport during the fieldtrip). (Note - fees do not include student transport to and from Cairns).
Course cap: 25 students due to logistical constraints.
ENVM3529/ENVM7529: Northern & Tropical Queensland tour
Tropical Queensland is one of the locations you'll visit on this trip.
Description
(Note: This course is not currently offered in 2022).
This natural resource management tour will provide you with an appreciation of different management contexts, including social, cultural, legal, economic, political and ecological perspectives within which management is conducted.
Details
Course code:ENVM3529 / ENVM7529 Northern & Tropical Queensland Tour
Units: 2
Open to: undergraduate and postgraduate coursework students
Location: Far North Queensland
Duration: 9 days during mid-year break
Cost: extra fees are payable.
Course cap: a quota applies due to logistical constraints.
How to apply: Students will be advised if any places are available.
This course is entirely field based. Image: Professor Paolo Vasconcelos
This elective course (ERTH3050) is entirely field based.
Through a number of exercises, you'll learn how to “read rocks” and produce a professional geological map that appropriately delivers geological information. Field exercises involve mapping folded and faulted low-grade meta-sedimentary sequence in the area of Lake Moondarra, mapping igneous, metamorphic and deformational features at the margin of a granitic batholith (Sybella Granite), and mapping overprinting relationships of structural fabrics in high-grade metamorphic rocks (Mica Creek).
Note: you must have a solid background in the core geology subjects (mineralogy, sedimentology, structural geology and igneous and metamorphic petrology).
This trip will help you forge a career in coral reefs. Image: Dr Tara Clark
This trip forms part of the elective course ERTH3212 Coral Reefs: Past, Present & Future, and supports lectures and lab work.
The trip will provide you with an introduction to geological research procedures and techniques, particularly if you're an earth scientist with an interest in modern or ancient reefs and limestone. It will also provide fundamental context if you're a biologist or environmental scientist wishing to pursue a career in coral reefs.
This trip forms part of ERTH2050 Field Geology, and supports lectures and lab work.
The trip will provide you with an introduction to geological mapping, map interpretation and field techniques. Field recognition and analysis of structural, stratigraphic and sedimentological features. Regional synthesis of field data.
Cost: extra fees are payable. Based on previous years, this course is estimated to be approximately $350 (includes food, accommodation and associated field trip activities).
Course cap: 25 students due to logistical constraints.
