Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Applied Environmental Geoscience Master Course, Sigwartstr. 10, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
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Over the last decades there has been an increasing awareness of the need for integrated approaches used to address environmental problems in geosciences. Examples of such problems include e.g. the industrial, urban and agricultural pollution of drinking water supplies, the non-sustainability of natural resources and investigation and remediation of contaminants in the soil, water and air systems resulting from human activities. Finding solutions to these issues requires a comprehensive understanding of the physical, chemical and biological mechanisms operating under natural conditions.
The Applied Environmental Geoscience Master's course gives an extensive insight into natural environmental processes and their interrelationships. The mandatory core modules include courses on the four subject areas Geology and Hydrogeology, Hydrogeochemistry and Microbiology, Technical Geology and Geophysics, Modelling and Geoinformatics. The elective modules (Soil, Water, Climate and Environmental Impact) focus on special topics within these fields