Applied Marine Geoscience MSc

Whilst the form and style of presentation of work may differ, the skills required by doctoral students and those by potential employers (the marine geoservices industry) overlap to a large extent. Specifically identifying aspects of the course in this light, we aim to enable the students to: be skilled in planning and acquiring good quality data in the laboratory and in the field in a safe manner be able to work as a team in the acquisition of larger data sets appreciate the importance of recognising the limitations of model based interpretation of data review and critically analyse previous work both before and after undertaking data acquisition or modelling understand the fundamental workings of the offshore geoservices industry In a more general sense, the course is designed to act as a conversion course for a physical scientist who wants to hone their research skills whilst at the same time getting a grasp of how those skills are applied to solve both academic and commercially based problems. An important part of the course philosophy is the idea that the challenges that face marine geoscientists can often only be solved by taking a multi disciplinary approach and we instil this idea of wider thought into our graduates. The course aims to place the student in a strong position to go on to doctoral studies on issues such as palaeoclimatology, geophysics or sedimentology; or enter directly into the offshore industry e.g. to geohazard analysis, or offshore renewable energy exploitation.