Try Honours in Geography and Environmental Studies 2010

1. Try Honours in Geography and Environmental Studies 2010 Want the perfect package?

2. Why do honours? • The Honours year is a challenging and rewarding experience! • It provides an opportunity for you to extend and apply the knowledge that you have gained in your undergraduate program as you learn to design and carry out your own research. • You will be able to share your experiences with other students and staff in the School. • Employability prospects are greater when you have a research-based qualification. • You need honours (or masters) to qualify for entry to the PhD.

3. Honours is useful! As an Honours graduate, you will have attained skills in research design, data collection and analysis, and communication of complex ideas. These skills are highly valued by employers, and are portable into public, private and non-government sector employment and further study.

4. Our research clusters Conservation Ecology Connecting Nature–Culture Spatial Sciences Members of the School are proud of our interdisciplinary skills and capacities, because these are also based on strong disciplinary foundations. Some of us have training in political science, and the systematic study of political behaviours and organisations and their effects. Others are human geographers, who work on cultural, historical, social and economic questions. Some are focused on the scholarship of environmental planning and management. Others are physical geographers, interested in biogeography or geomorphology or climatology. Some are oceanographers, tracking environmental change in marine environments. Others are fascinated by geographic information systems, remote sensing, geodesy and photogrammetry - the spatial sciences. Beyond these disciplinary skills, though, we all have a passion for interdisciplinary research involving collaboration across the University, around Australia and the globe on a range of seriously important questions at various scales from the local to the global. Our key distinction? A perfect package of integrative, interdisciplinary skill!

5. What’s possible … and this is just a taste • Conservation Ecology • Organic soil classification • Biogeomorphology – interactions between vegetation and landform • Integrating geoconservation and bioconservation • Nature conservation planning • Disturbance ecology • Natural resource management in state forests • Connecting Nature-Culture • Public perceptions of technology and nature • Urban ecology, design and environmental values • Environmental politics and governance • Antarctic environment, politics and international relations • Protected area governance, planning and management • Comparative island studies • Spatial Sciences • Ocean and climate dynamics • Climate change, variability and extreme events • Remote sensing for land cover classification and change • Application of airborne remote sensing to forest inventory and management • Environmental geodesy and global changes in hydrology • Other areas • Colonial landscapes of Launceston • Historical geography of Mount Wellington • Critical social and spatial theory See our Induction Guide for further details on topics and supervisors http://www.geol.utas.edu.au/geography/documents/Induction%20Manual.pdf

6. Honours has financial benefits! As an Honours graduate, you will have an advantage when competing for jobs with applicants who have a three-year pass degree. Starting salaries for Honours graduates are generally higher than those who hold such pass degrees. Also, because the Honours year is a part of your undergraduate degree, it may be completed under HECS funding.

7. Honours is a great adventure! • You’ll spend a year finding out about yourself and whether you are suited to a career in research. • During your Honours year, you become an integral part of a research team in the School as you make the transition from student to professional.

8. Personal satisfaction The Honours year provides for novel learning experiences compared to participating in typical undergraduate units (although units can be a component of the Honours year). YOU have a strong influence on your research direction and manage your time yourself. While successful completion of an honours research project and thesis requires a large commitment, you are rewarded with a high degree of enjoyment and personal satisfaction.

9. Honours can be well-funded by scholarships School Scholarship $4000 Governor’s Environmental Management Scholarship $5000 Bookend Environmental Scholarship $2000-$5000 Environmental Science Scholarship $3000 Lester Franks Scholarships in Surveying and Spatial Science $3000 Nick Martin Scholarship in Surveying and Spatial Science $4000 And many more: see http://www.studentcentre.utas.edu.au/scholarships/files/booklet/2010+Brochure+Final.pdf

10. Want more information about? • Science: BSc Hons • Wilderness management: BSc (NEWM) Hons, BNEWS Hons • Arts [humanities, social science]: BA Hons • Spatial Science: BSurvSpSc Hons, Graduate Diploma in Spatial Information Science (GradDip SIS) Then contact • Honours guides: • http://www.geol.utas.edu.au/geography/honours.htm • Initial inquiries • Julie.Coad@utas.edu.au • +61 (0)3 6226 2485

11. How to enrol? • Meet with one or more possible supervisors to decide on thesis topic and coursework • See our home pages at http://fcms.its.utas.edu.au/scieng/geog/people.asp • Meet with the Honours coordinator to get advice on enrolment • Enrol online • http://www.studentcentre.utas.edu.au • Go to student administration to ensure enrolment • February and July enrolments encouraged • Thesis due at the end of May 2010 (if you enrol in July 2009) or mid to late October 2010 (if you enrol in February 2010)