Environmental Geoscience at La Trobe University focuses on teaching and research into the physical science aspects of identifying and managing environmental problems.
Staff and students are actively involved in research on understanding and remediating the problems due to dryland salinity (rising saline groundwater which causes a loss of agricultural productivity) and acid mine drainage (the release of acid waters at mine sites). There are currently several opportunities for new honours and postgraduate projects.
In undergraduate subjects at all year levels students are given theoretical, practical and field-based experience in: geology, surface hydrology and catchment management, hydrogeology and groundwater studies, water-rock interaction and geochemistry, contamination and waste treatment problems (including on mine sites), landscape and climate change, remote sensing and GIS.
Graduates with a background in Environmental Geoscience from La Trobe are highly sought after by government organisations and private companies in Victoria, around Australia and overseas.
Environmental Geoscience at La Trobe is the successor to the Department of Earth Sciences, and continues its proud tradition of high quality undergraduate teaching and research.
