NIGK19004U Marine Geoscience

Volume 2024/2025
Education

MSc Programme in Geography and Geoinformatics
MSc Programme in Geology-Geoscience

Content

Marine Geoscience is the integration of the disciplines of physical geography geomorphology, geology, geophysics and geobiochemistry. By applying a theoretical and practical approach, students will examine sedimentary and depositional transport processes and morphodynamics in shallow marine and near-coastal waters and formation of resulting submarine landforms. An important element of this interdisciplinary course is ship-based marine geoscientific field studies where students try basic as well as more advanced instrumentation, field measurements and data processing techniques.

Learning Outcome

Knowledge:

  • Marine geomorphology, marine stratigraphy, marine and nearshore depositional environments, stratigraphy and architecture of marine landforms, marine and nearshore geomicrobiology, dynamic measurements of water coulmn properties, marine and coastal sediment coring and surface sampeling techniques, shallow seismic techeniques and sub-bottom imaging, echo sounder measurements, data processing techniques.
  • Ability to assess issues related to the sustainable management of marine arears as well being trained in the ability to analyse specific problems and scientific relations related to natural dynamics, sedimentary environments, bottom morphology and stratigraphy in shallow marine environments.

 

Skills:

  • Use research equipment such as seismic devices, eco-sounders, ADCPs, current meters and sediment sample and coring techniques etc. commonly applied in marine geoscience studies.
  • Apply basic and advanced data processing techniques for simple analysis of dynamic data.
  • Evaluate strength and weaknesses of different marine geoscientific techniques and their related uncertainties.

 

Competences:

  • Analysis, evaluate, discuss and apply methods, data and results to draw meaningful conclusions related to sediment dynamics, stratigraphy, bottom morphology, evolution and depositional controls of shallow marine and near-coastal sedimentary environments.

See Absalon for a list of course literature.

BSc in Geography and Geoinformatics, Geology-Geoscience or equivalent is recommended.
Lectures, individual and group exercises, field studies, and report writing. It is an intensive 6-days course taking place as a summer-school course. The students are expected to be familiar with the theoretical parts before the field-based part of the course. Preparing for the course and report writing corresponds to a workload of 134 hours. During the field course, the average of 12 hours/day of teaching and practical work is expected.
A maximum of 16 students can be enrolled in the course. The course is designed to student following the specielisation in Physical Geography at the the Geography and Geoinformatic MSc Programme and relevant specielisations at the Geology-Geoscience MSc Programme.
  • Category
  • Hours
  • Preparation
  • 134
  • Field Work
  • 72
  • Total
  • 206
Individual
Continuous feedback during the course of the semester
Feedback by final exam (In addition to the grade)

After the marks (passed or not passed) have been given, the students are encouraged to contact the course teachers and get a more thorough individual assessment.  

Credit
7,5 ECTS
Type of assessment
Written assignment
Type of assessment details
Written assignment to be handed in in week 34 in Digital Exam.
Exam registration requirements

Approved participation in the fieldwork. If the student does not take part in the fieldwork, the student cannot take part in the exam or re-exam and will have to re-take the course on next occasion.

Aid
All aids allowed
Marking scale
passed/not passed
Censorship form
No external censorship
Several internal examiners.
Re-exam

If the exam registration requirement has not been fulfilled students must retake the course.

Re-examination is identical to the ordinary examination. A revised written assignment must be handed in in the re-exam week.

Criteria for exam assesment

Please see learning outcomes.