EV3456 - Catchment Assessment and Management
[Offered in even-numbered years]
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 2 |
| Administered by: | Discipline of Environmental Sciences |
The subject examines patterns and processes of river channel, floodplain, estuary and sandy beach development and human impacts on these environments including agriculture, stream bank erosion, mining, changes to sediment yields, stream diversion and engineering works, water extraction, removal of riparian vegetation, introduction of exotic flora and fauna, and coastal beach erosion.
Learning Outcomes
- to gain an understanding of the methods used to assess the impacts of human landuse activities in a stream catchment;
- to gain an understanding of the methods used in remedying and managing human impacts in stream catchments;
- to develop expertise in field mapping techniques and analysis of data;
- to develop scientific writing and oral presentation skills.
Graduate Qualities
- The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments;
- The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
- The ability to speak and write logically, clearly and creatively.
| Prerequisites: | 12 units of level 1 science subjects |
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | GE3456 and GE2456 |
Availabilities | |
| Cairns, Internal, Study Period 2 | |
| Census Date 05-Sep-2008 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Professor Jonathan Nott. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); practical exercises (25%); field report (25%) (50%). |
Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.