ENVIRONMENTAL
GEOLOGY
Sediment character, processes and settings
Documentation, interpretation and application
For students interested in a professional career applying geologic information from small to large scale systems to current and future societal issues.
Environmental Geology in Practice
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PowerPoint Presentations
Recorded Presentations
This recording (2015) includes examples from Göteborg (Stevens) and Wilhemsburg (S. Heise)
This Short Course aims to illustrate some of the common applications of Environmental Geology, especially in urban planning contexts. This usually involves risk assessment and decision support in some form. It might be argued that today these goals are largely a continuation of environmental modeling (cf. Short Course 3, but also the documentation of need dealt with in Short Courses 1 & 2. Also taken up are some practical aspects of site investigations and sampling.