As part of your studies for some of our undergraduate and postgraduate coursework courses you'll be required to go on overnight field trips.
These hands-on residential excursions allow you to put into practice the principals you'll study in lectures and tutorials, and they complement the analytical experience you'll gain in the laboratory.
Destinations for our trips include Moreton and North Stradbroke islands, the Sunshine Coast and Far North Queensland.
ENVM3405/ENVM7405: Mount Morgan and Gladstone field trip
Description
You'll examine land and water impacts of mining activities.
This trip is a compulsory component of the ENVM3405 / ENVM7405 Managing Post-Mining Landscapes course.
Mining and processing of mineral ores and energy resources has significant impacts on both mine sites and operational refinery and processing lands. This course will examine the major land and water impacts of mining and refining activities, and introduce land rehabilitation concepts specific to the management of sites impacted by mining and refining activities.
On this field trip you'll examine rehabilitation strategies in action, which will support your lectures and complement the hands-on analytical experience you'll receive during laboratory work.
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Prerequisite course:ENVM3305 / ENVM7305 Environmental Management in Mining
Open to: undergraduate and postgraduate coursework students
In the field at Crystal Mountain. Image: Dr Ryan Petterson.
This trip is a compulsory component of the ERTH3001 Ore Deposits & Exploration Geology course. The course is a compulsory component of the Geological Sciences major.
You'll look at geological processes leading to ore genesis, geological controls and tectonic settings of ore deposits. You'll produce a geological map of the prospect and collect one sample of each major rock and ore type at the location.
Once you return to UQ, you'll prepare thin sections and examine them. You'll also be required to describe the sections, interpret geological and geophysical (if available) data from the location and write a report to evaluate the economic viability of the prospect.
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Open to: third-year Geological Sciences students
Location: alternates between Ban Ban Springs, Crystal Mountain and various sites in Kilkivan
You'll spend 4 days in Nambucca Heads. Image: Dr Ryan Petterson
This trip is a compulsory part of the elective course ERTH3060: Advanced Structural Geology.
It involves mapping multiply deformed low-grade metamorphic rocks at Nambucca Heads.
You'll learn how to map and interpret linear and planar structural fabric elements, and then use the data collected in the field for geometrical and kinematic analysis.
ERTH3103 Sedimentary Environments field trip to Carnavon Gorge
Description
You'll learn to interpret different sedimentary environments. Image: Dr Ben Cohen
This trip is a compulsory component of the elective course ERTH3103 Sedimentary Environments.
On the trip, you'll develop the skills to interpret different sedimentary environments in outcrop, and piece together a story about the tectonic and sedimentary evolution of Queensland’s basins that host energy and water resources.
In combination with practicals leading up to it, this trip forms the basis for the class assignment, which is a field guide to sedimentary environments in Queensland's premier basins.
Open to: third-year Geological Science undergraduates
Location: Carnarvon Gorge, Central Queensland. Stops include outcrops that record different sedimentary environments, from offshore marine to coastal and fluvial environments.
Duration: 5 days, semester 1 mid-semester break (every 2 years, next trip 2017)
You'll spend 2 nights at Noosa on the Sunshine Coast.
This trip is a compulsory component of the GEOG2001 Human Mobility and Migration course. You'll collect primary data on various types of human spatial behaviour using a variety of survey methods. These include capturing information on Noosa’s residential mobility and journey to work, and inviting tourists to partake in a GPS survey. This course will not be running in 2017.
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Prerequisite course:GEOG2001 Human Mobility and Migration (semester 2)
GEOS2103/GEOS7103: North Stradbroke Island field trip
Description
You'll study environmental processes on North Stradbroke Island.
This trip is a compulsory component of the GEOS2103 / GEOS7103 Biogeography & Geomorphology course. During this course, you'll examine the physical processes and linkages operating within the biosphere (biogeography) and lithosphere (geomorphology), with a particular focus on the role that temporal and spatial scales impact environmental processes.
The course is also a foundation for advanced courses in environmental processes and management and has an emphasis on the environments of the Giant Sand Masses of South East Queensland.
You'll measure the physical and biological oceanographic parameters in Moreton Bay.
This trip is a compulsory component of the MARS3012 Physical-biological Oceanography course.
On the trip, you'll learn about aspects of physical-biological oceanography by measuring changes in salinity, temperature, currents and water quality across Moreton Bay, and the associated changes in plankton.
Working from a boat in groups, you'll measure the physical and biological oceanographic parameters in Moreton Bay, and then analyse the data and identify plankton samples in the laboratories at Moreton Bay Research Station.
