Handbook

This subject enables students to explore the complex interactions between Earth’s spheres and the ways these interactions have changed over time. Using guided activities, students will develop and apply skills to analyse creatively real environmental problems using computational techniques, culminating in the construction and interpretation of an environmental model. In lectures, tutorials and practicals, concepts from Earth Systems Science will be used to examine topics including cycling of energy and carbon between spheres; the past record of global change; natural forcing and feedbacks in the Earth system; and human forcing of the Earth system. Students will also be introduced to modern methods used to understand past, present, and future global change.