Environmental Earth Sciences BSc (Hons)

Environmental Earth Sciences focuses principally on understanding the processes that influence Earth’s surface environments and how those are modified by both natural and anthropogenic processes. The programme addresses the main challenges facing society from climate change to environmental degradation and the methods employed to better understand how the oceans, atmosphere, biosphere, and geosphere are interconnected and drive environmental change. The degree utilises geology, chemistry, physics, and biology to understand Earth’s surface environment both past and present. Applied training includes hands-on experience with cutting-edge techniques central to field and lab-based studies in environmental and geobiological sciences. The BSc in Environmental Earth Sciences from St Andrews is accredited by the Institution of Environmental Sciences.

The BSc (Hons) in Environmental Earth Sciences is a four-year course run by the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences. During your degree, you will be able to take advantage of hands-on field and laboratory-based research projects that investigate topics as varied as the isotopic signals preserved in ancient rocks to recent sediments and what they record about conditions at the time of their formation, to the impact of volcanoes on climate.