Qualification
Career Opportunities
A profile in Geobiology will qualify you in jobs ranging from research and education, environmental consulting to water management and petroleum and mineral exploration.
Qualification
The honours class in Geobiology will give you a wealth of qualifications:
- understand the chemical principles controlling the distribution of elements in the environment
- understand the role of microbes in the cycling of bio-active elements in the environment
- be able to use cutting-edge techniques to determine the rates of important microbial processes in nature
- be able to use cutting-edge techniques to identify microbial populations in natural environments and to determine their diversity
- understand how microbes interface with and affect geological materials including how they influence weathering processes
- understand the history of life and the influence of life’s evolution on the biogeochemical cycling of elements and Earth surface chemistry
- be able to quantitatively express the biogeochemical cycling of elements through time and space
- be able to design and implement a field research project
Academic Career
The Geobiology Module Honours Class is offered as a part of the masters education in Biology. The module couples well with the “Research” profile package.
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