📚About the Program
Introduction
You will cover core topics in geophysics, geology, physics and mathematics. Major features include training in practical geology and geophysics, exploration geophysics (particularly seismology), planetary-scale geophysics and geophysical inverse theory. Fieldwork currently involves field areas in Ireland, Wales, the Isle of Man, and Spain.
This four-year degree delivers advanced and rigorous training in both geophysics and geology, including a high proportion of fieldwork, and fundamental training in physics and mathematics. You don’t need to have studied geology before, and this degree therefore opens up a range of opportunities in geoscience. Graduates benefit from a wide range of possible careers, allowing flexible paths between geology and geophysics in a large company.
In year three, you will undertake an independent field mapping project and dissertation, either in the UK or abroad. In the final year you will work within one of our geophysical research groups to undertake a substantial research project, aiming to produce research of publishable quality thus providing an ideal entry into further research degrees if desired.
A number of the School’s degree programmes involve laboratory and field work. Fieldwork is carried out in various locations, ranging from inner city to coastal and mountainous environments. We consider applications from prospective disabled students on the same basis as all other students, and reasonable adjustments will be considered to address barriers to access.
What you'll learn
Computational physics
Dynamics and relativity
Thermal physics
Properties of matter
Structure and plate tectonics
Wave phenomena
Exploration and environmental geophysics
Data modelling
Signal processing and seismic analysis
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