Teaching Responsibility

LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:

Biological and Environmental Sciences

Learning Methods

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Practical
Workshop

Module Offerings

5403NATSCI-SEP-CTY

Aims

To provide students with an appreciation of fundamental processes that operate in (and link) the cryospheric, catchment, coastal and marine environments in relation to climate change. To equip the students with the necessary skills and techniques that are used for monitoring and comprehending these changing environments.

Learning Outcomes

1.
Interpret and analyse the processes that act in the cryosphere, catchments, coasts, and oceans.
2.
Understand the impacts of climate change on all aspects of the cryosphere, catchments, coasts, and oceans.
3.
Understand the impacts these catchment-wide changes will have on human populations.

Module Content

Outline Syllabus:
The Cryospheric system, including ice sheets, glaciers, permafrost and sea ice. Catchment and river hydrology, hyporheic, and ecohydrological processes in change. Flooding, Sea level rise. Coastal and oceanic processes in change including ecology and biogeochemistry.
Module Overview:
This module will provide students with an appreciation of fundamental processes that operate in(and link) the cryosphere, catchments, riverine, coastal and marine environments in relation to climate change. To equip the students with the necessary skills and techniques that are used for monitoring and comprehending these changing environments.
Additional Information:
The module will examine some of the most important Earth surface domains, and their importance to global systems and humans. We will focus on the components and importance of the cryosphere, how climate change affects catchment water balance and ecohydrology, and how climate change will affect coasts, sea level, physics, biogeochemistry, and ecology.

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