The Bachelor of Environmental Science is a three year degree providing flexible, innovative and integrated studies into resource and environmental issues, both of a global nature and unique to Australia. This course prepares students for careers in research as well as in a variety of government, community and private organisations. Field classes to coastal, mountainous and semi-arid ecosystems are a prominent feature.  Specific career paths include applied ecology; vegetation and wildlife management; reserve management; pest and weed control; biometry and data analysis; conservation biology and genetics; remote sensing and information systems; environmental assessment; catchment, lake and estuary management; salinity management, landcare and land management.

Graduates from this course can expect to gain employment as a project officer, environmental monitoring officer, resource assessment officer, ecotourism officer, landcare or rivercare coordinator, scientist, manager, policy maker or planner in a government or non-government agency, or in a wide range of similar roles in industry, with resource users, or in the community sector.

The Bachelor of Environmental Science can be coupled with a Bachelor of Arts in Landscape to secure a double degree qualification  in 4 years.   The Bachelor of Arts in Landscape, Bachelor of Environmental Science also offers the basis for admission to the two year Master of Landscape Architecture degree for students wishing to become registered as a Landscape Architect.

Convenor: Margi Bohm

This Graduate Certificate of Invasive Species aims to provide mid and upper level land managers with the skills to identify pest animal problems and to develop and implement effective pest management strategies that are part of a strategic approach to sustainable resource management. Land managers will then have the capacity to identify and manage their pest problems including having the ability to adapt and respond to changing land use practices.

Graduates from this course can expect to gain employment with public and private environmental and/or land management agencies dealing with the management of invasive pests. The course will give graduates the skill to identify and manage the damage being done by invasive pests rather than focus solely on the number of pests present.

Employers who take on graduates from this course can expect to have graduates with the skills and abilities to look beyond the number of pests present and who can develop innovative and effective pest damage management strategies based on best available practices. Additionally these graduates will have the skills and capacity to adaptively manage pest programs to ensure that the stakeholder goals are fulfilled.

Convenor: Tony Buckmaster

The  Graduate Certificate in Water Management aims to provide an understanding of the functioning of water systems within the framework of the catchment that is a fundamental need for system management. It develops an understanding of the effects of both water and catchment based management decisions. The certificate includes core units on ecology and river function, orientated towards but not limited to, the Australian context.

Climate change, drought and over allocation of water, combined with large Government programs, have placed a renewed emphasis on water management.  The target audience for this graduate certificate is scientists and non-scientists wanting to train, or retrain, with an emphasis on water management.  Interested members of community and natural resource management groups will also benefit from the course.

Convenor: Sue Nichols

The Honours course provides opportunity for you to conceive, plan and carry to completion a discrete piece of original research, under the close supervision of a professional in the field. This work requires you to critically review special topics of relevance to applied ecology in greater depth than would be possible at third-year undergraduate level. The course also provides opportunity to gain exposure to an active research environment, to interact with research staff and to participate in discussion on current controversial issues in science. Assessment is largely via examination of a research thesis.

Honours students conduct their research through the Institute for Applied Ecology   and/or related Cooperative Research Centres of eWater   and CRC for Invasive Animals.

Convenor: Bernd Gruber 

Guidelines, information and potential Honours Project Posters for Environmental Sciences

Application Forms: Direct Admission Form, Honours Supplementary Form, Referee Report Form (required whether applying for a scholarship or not) and Scholarship Application Form for fulltime students.

Admission Application and Scholarship deadline is 30th November 2011

The research Master of Applied Science in applied ecology provides the opportunity for you to conceive, plan and carry to completion a substantial piece of original research, under the supervision of a professional in the field. In so doing, you will be expected to extend your chosen field of study by contributing to knowledge in that field or by reworking existing knowledge to provide new insights. Although basic research interests are not discouraged, the emphasis of the research programs is on applied research, and candidates are also expected to acquire the skills and attitudes considered desirable when they become practitioners in a professional area or become involved in the application of policies in the workplace.

Research Masters students conduct their research through the Institute for Applied Ecology   and/or related Cooperative Research Centres of eWater  and CRC for Invasive Animals.

Convenor: Bernd Gruber

The PhD course provides the opportunity for you to learn to conceive, plan and carry to completion a substantial piece of original research in applied ecology, under the supervision of a professional in the field. In so doing, you will be expected to extend your chosen field of study by contributing to knowledge in that field or by reworking existing knowledge to provide new insights, and to publish your findings in scholarly journals. In undertaking PhD studies, you will also gain exposure to an active research environment, to become fully familiar with contemporary knowledge and thinking in applied ecology, to interact with research staff and to participate in discussion on current controversial issues in science.

Although basic research interests are not discouraged, the emphasis of the research programs is on applied research, and you are also expected to acquire skills and attitudes considered desirable when you join the workforce.

PhD students conduct their research through the Institute for Applied Ecology  and/or related Cooperative Research Centres of eWater  and CRC for Invasive Animals.

Convenor: Bernd Gruber