As a research student in the Centre for Environmental Sciences, you would have joint supervision, usually from staff from more than one department, thus ensuring an interdisciplinary approach. The Division of Biodiversity and Ecology, inthe School of Biological Sciences, has a strong focus on applied ecology in an agricultural context, including pest control, and collaborates with industrial, agricultural and nature conservation organisations. Coastal ecology and management is a new interest. Geography has developed a number of staff groupings for research including several of particular interest to environmental sciences. These include fluvial geomorphology and hydrology with particular interests in the controls and mechanisms of river channel change.
Environmental change is another research theme.
This is based on pollen and macro fossil analyses and results may be used to shed light on past climates, plant communities and human impact upon them. A third research theme concerns environmental remote sensing from aircraft and satellites, and research is currently underway on the use of such techniques for vegetation survey in the New Forest. Geological research is undertaken in the School of Ocean and Earth Sciences including wide ranging research interests on a global scale which often interface with different aspects of environmental geology. Of particular relevance is the recently established radiation monitoring facility which involved cooperative research investigations between the University and sponsoring bodies. Oceanography research groupings cover a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines.