ENV2022 · Environmental field skills and monitoring

Overview

This unit provides an introduction to the monitoring of plants, water and soils. It provides hands-on and industry relevant experience in the tools and techniques for conducting a multi-disciplinary environmental assessment. Techniques for the design, implementation and analysis of environmental monitoring are examined. To increase the successful implementation of monitoring programmes in management protocols, ways to incorporate science in decision-making are explored. During this unit you will implement an environmental monitoring programme to generate reports on the state of the environment at Monash University.

Areas of study: Environmental science

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. Articulate the purpose for performing environmental monitoring and the importance of good experimental design and quality assurance in these programmes;
2. Describe environmental monitoring techniques and tools for plants, water and soils and demonstrate the ability to implement a multi-disciplinary monitoring programme;
3. Use quantitative skills to analyse and interpret data derived from environmental monitoring;
4. Evaluate and integrate theory drawn from several disciplines to describe the results of environmental monitoring programmes to a broad audience.

Workload

• One 1-hour seminar; • One 1-hour online activity; • Eight 3-hour practicals and • Seven hours of independent study per week and • One half-day field trips per semester

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.