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MSc/PgDip in Environmental Informatics
Director of Studies: Professor Ian Marshall.
Duration: 12 months full-time (MSc); 24 months part-time (MSc). 9
months full-time (PgDip).
Entry Requirements: At least an upper second class honours degree,
or its equivalent, in a relevant discipline, or professional qualifications or
experience (MSc). A lower second honours degree, or its equivalent, in
a relevant discipline (PgDip). PgDip students are permitted to upgrade
to the MSc, subject to satisfactory academic performance.
Assessment: Combination of coursework, presentations and
dissertation/research placement.
IELTS: 6.5
Funding: NERC Studentships - see also page 196.
Further Information: www.lec.lancs.ac.uk/postgraduate/
Employers in the environmental sector, public and private, are
desperately short of recruits who both understand their
Professor Richard Bardgett
environmental problems and can make effective use of the latest IT
Soil and Ecosystem Ecology
tools. This MSc provides you with this critical multidisciplinary skillset.
Specifically, methods for collecting, analysing, archiving and
presenting environmental information are advancing rapidly with
Professor Bardgett’s research focuses on interactions between
the emergence of new IT tools including, intelligent data mining,
plant and soil biological communities and how they influence
GIS tools, low cost digital cameras and smart sensors. Crucially,
ecosystem processes, such as plant productivity,
obtaining, using and managing the volume and variety of
decomposition and nutrient cycling.
information types these new tools can deliver, enables more
advanced understanding of complex environments at all scales and
“A recent theme of my research is ecosystem carbon cycling,
supports more informed environmental decision making. This is
including studies that aim to understand how changes in
particularly important when considering detailed responses to issues
plant diversity and grazing by large herbivores affect the
such as climate change, environmental hazard, land remediation and
storage of carbon in soil. Much of my work is field based and
long range impacts of installing marine renewable energy systems.
includes studies in mountain grasslands and forests in New
Zealand and the European Alps, arctic tundra in Svalbard, and
This is Europe’s first Masters degree in the emerging field of
tropical rainforests of Panama. “
Environmental Informatics (EI) and Lancaster is leading the
development of this new field. This innovative course uses the
“Many of the changes occurring on Earth at the beginning of
expertise from many departments and research units at Lancaster to
the 21st century are unprecedented in their rates and scope.
provide a high-level, interdisciplinary training in state-of-the-art Never before has one species moderated the biology,
information technology and its applications in environmental science, chemistry and physics of the Earth in the way that Man is
environmental management and environmental engineering. You can now doing. Environmental scientists have a unique role to
tailor the scheme to your individual needs through your choice of play in understanding these developments. Our better
optional modules. Importantly, you have the opportunity to understanding of how the Earth system works has already
undertake a three month placement that will let you practice had major benefits.”
putting EI to use in a real-world situation.
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