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A holistic understanding of Earth and its oceans is needed for a more sustainable future. This course offers an interdisciplinary experience in onshore and offshore environments for future leaders in research and sustainable industry.

This extended major enables students to gain critical knowledge in earth studies through a research-led approach, delving into the planets early history to its foreseeable future, and from the ocean floors to its highest mountains.

Course Structure

Our undergraduate degrees offer you a broad range of options allowing you to combine subjects in a way that matches your career goals and personal interests.

You'll learn to

Collect geoscientific data, on land, at sea and in the laboratory

Analyse and interpret data in spatial and spatial temporal contexts

Synthesise and integrate data across multiple scales of observation and over discipline boundaries

Understand the past and present processes of Earth, and its planetary neighbours, from the deep interior to the atmosphere

Why study this course

Within Australia, this is the only major that integrates Earth and Marine Sciences, providing a unique set of skills nationally

Learning in the major is led by UWAs research strength in this discipline, and connects students with world class research teams

This major will provide high-level of interdisciplinary skills for the nations future leaders in research and sustainable industry

Career Pathways

Studying an Integrated Earth and Marine Sciences Extended Major can lead to careers in:

Minerals Exploration

Petroleum Exploration

Groundwater Exploration

Natural Resources Management

Energy Geoscience

Coastal and Marine Consulting

Research and development (industry, universities and government agencies)