Day students: compulsory field excursion in September.
We consulted with river managers, soil conservationists, environmental scientists and consulting engineers to find out what our graduates need for the workplace, and we designed this unit in response. Our students gain classroom, laboratory and field experience in three modules. First, we have an urban stream module that works through contemporary issues in stream, sediment and storm water management. We use local fieldwork to help us understand the issues that control storm water and urban floods, and what we can do to manage them. Second, students will learn about contaminated site assessment and remediation techniques, which forms the backbone of much consulting activity. Finally, students will learn about fluvial principles that are used in river health assessment and river rehabilitation. During a nine day field trip, students apply the skills they have learned to rivers, mine sites and degraded areas in locations that have included Bathurst, Bega, Braidwood, the Hunter Valley, Inverell and White Cliffs. This unit helps prepare graduates for employment in environmental, consulting and local, state and federal government workplaces. This is a core unit of the Geoecology program.
