Learning Outcomes:
The overall goal of this module is to provide undergraduate students with a sound knowledge of the marine and seabed environments: how they formed over geological time, what processes presently affect them, and how human activities impact it. This will equip the students to make rational assessments with regards to environmental and engineering challenges related to climate change and the energy transition. Students will learn about the complex interplay within the marine environment, and the role of various geological, biological, oceanographic and hydrodynamic processes.
On successful completion of this module, a student will be able to:
(1) Competently acquire, measure and interpret offshore surveying and sampling data;
(2) Integrate and interrogate a wide range of complicated datasets to provide robust assessments of the seabed and marine environment;
(3) Demonstrate a practical understanding of marine and seafloor processes and how they can create, or be exploited for, various resources, and the environmental implications;
(4) Communicate effectively complex ideas around marine geoscience to an audience of peers.
Indicative Module Content:
Indicative Module Content:
1. Seafloor mapping and seabed morphology
2. Seabed geomorphology and sedimentary environments
3. Sea-level change, marine hydrodynamics and processes on continental shelves
4. Marine sediments as environmental archives
5. Sediment geotechnics
6. The seafloor supporting habitats and providing ecosystem services
7. Offshore ground modelling
8. Marine geohazards
9. Marine renewable energy
10. Anthropogenic impacts on the seafloor