Taught Field Courses

We cater for all Ecology, Environmental Science, Rural Resource Management and Biology degree programmes.

We draw on the range of excellent scientific expertise, both in the Department and throughout the university, to provide your students with an unrivalled learning experience. Students also benefit from contact with professionals in environmental-based careers; staff from organisations such as English Nature, Northumberland National Park, Northumberland Wildlife Trust and Northumbrian Water contribute to the field teaching.

Examples of the many possible Field Course topics include:

  • Indicators of Pollution – marine and freshwater environments.
  • What is a National Park? Upland Moorland Management.
  • Blanket Bog Ecology and Restoration.
  • Freshwater Ecology and Water Resource Management.
  • Lindisfarne National Nature Reserve: Hot Topics and Management Issues.
  • Larval Supply and the Marine Environment.
  • Marine Invertebrate Biodiversity.
  • The Rocky Shore Environment: Taxonomy, Ecology and Field Techniques.
  • Saltmarshes and Sand Dunes of Northumberland.
  • Marine Benthic Infauna: sampling techniques and identification.
  • Man, Vertebrates and the Sea.
  • Fisheries Management.
  • The Ecology and Biology of Marine Algae.
  • The Tyne Estuary: Ecology, Water Quality and Management.
  • Impacted and Pristine Shores – the effects of and recovery from coal mining.
  • Aspects of Estuarine Ecology.