Environmental problem solving and visualisation

This unit will provide you with the ability to solve a wide-ranging set of common problems in environmental and climate science. Through practical problem solving it will introduce quantitative methods and techniques used in environmental and climate science to analyse data, to build scientific models and to visualise key results. Simple techniques and methods from the fields of mathematics, physics and information technology will be introduced in the context of real-world problems and will enable you to apply these necessary skills in the higher level units in the Earth science major streams of Earth's physical environment and Earth's climate. You will develop skills in computer coding and numerical simulations (with R-studio) to address environmental science problems. The methods learned in this unit are highly valued for academic research and in the professional workforce.