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GEOS3909: Coastal Environments and Processes (Adv)
Advanced students will complete the same core lecture material as for GEOS3009 but will carry out more challenging projects, practicals, assignments and tutorials.
| Code | GEOS3909 |
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| Academic unit | Geosciences Academic Operations |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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A mark of 75 or above in GEOS2X15 |
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Corequisites:
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None |
| Prohibitions:
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GEOS3009 or MARS3003 or MARS3105 |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. understand the main carbonate-dominated coastal to continental margin environments (including reefs) and the major process influencing them
- LO2. to relate the different types of reef environments with different physical, chemical and biologic factors
- LO3. demonstrate the long term (geologic) development and sedimentary architecture of reefal and deltaic systems in space and time to changes in past climate, sea level and tectonic regimes
- LO4. establish the range of likely impacts of predicted future global climate changes on reef systems
- LO5. demonstrate techniques in evaluating and interpreting remote sensing data used to characterise coastal and continental margin environments
- LO6. demonstrate understanding of coastal processes and the morphodynamics of coastal systems
- LO7. define a beach system by its morphodynamic state and associated basic processes
- LO8. learn about the nature of wave breaking, transformation and impact on coastal environments
- LO9. establish scientific data analysis and interpretation techniques, using PYTHON & MATLAB
- LO10. setup, run and analyse data using a numerical model
- LO11. develop the ability to identify and evaluate relevant environmental information from written and spoken scientific presentations
- LO12. provide guidelines of how to address coastal studies in real-life situations.
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- Semester 1, 2024 [Normal day] - Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
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