What is Earth and Environmental Science?
Earth and environmental science is the study of the Earth and its processes. An understanding of the natural environment is fundamental to any study of smaller or specific local environments. Studies in earth and environmental science explore changes that have occurred during the Earth’s history, the evolution of life on Earth and provide an understanding of aquatic and terrestrial environments. Earth and environmental science is structured around the themes of air, water, land, biota, people, policy and technology with an integrated environmental management perspective. Earth and environmental science can be subdivided into many specialist areas including: • Marine biology • Geology • Geography • Meteorology • Ecology • Horticulture • Palaeontology Combining several disciplines has lead to the development of new areas of research and jobs including: urban ecology, environmental forensics, and comparative planetology. Because of the diversity of this field of science there are many are
