Fieldwork for Geoscientists

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Evidence team-working, time management, study, and self-management skills.
• Safely and systematically collect and then present and analyse field data, in the form of a geological map, sedimentary logs and a geological cross-section produced from field data
• Demonstrate safe and responsible approach to working in a field setting
• Demonstrate competence in key field skills including keeping an effective notebook, making field observations and interpreting field data

Geology and Environmental Geoscience students attend two residential field courses during the Easter vacation and at the end of Year 1. This year 1 module introduces students to key geoscience skills and topics, mainly via small-group and residential field-based learning. Skills covered include fieldwork skills such as geological mapping, production of geological cross-sections, field data interpretation, and more generic scientific skills applied in a field setting.

Teaching and learning methods

Fieldwork: will provide you with a training in geological fieldwork skills (mapping, field observations, logging sedimentary sequences, taking structural measurements, recording all these observations in a systematic way).

A wide range of support can be provided for those students who have further or specific learning and teaching needs.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.