2024/25 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

SOEE2800 Environmental Measurements

20 creditsClass Size: 100

Module manager: Ben Murray
Email: B.J.Murray@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable

Year running 2024/25

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Module summary

The module will prepare students for a significant research activity such as their Level 3 research project. The module will present techniques and theory behind experimental planning, sampling, measuring, analysing and interpreting data. The aim is to give a coherent training all the way from experimental design through to presentation of findings. Students will learn how to design and implement scientific experiments, how to analyse the data they collect, to draw inferences, and how to write a report on their experiment. Students will have an opportunity to gain practical, hands on, experience of how environmental data is produced, analysed, interpreted and reported.

Objectives

Building on skills developed at Level 1, this module aims to provide all Level 2 Environmental Science students with a coherent and consistent training in skills needed for collecting, analysing and interpreting environmental data. The module provides the opportunity to undertake field and practical techniques relevant for future careers in Environmental Science.

Learning outcomes
1. Demonstrate field-based, practical and research skills including observation, analysis, measurement, synthesis and integration/assimilation of information
2. Demonstrate an understanding of key chemical and physical measurement techniques for water, soil and the air, and their application in environmental sciences
3. Recognise how precision, accuracy and uncertainty are involved in sample collection, analysis and recording of data
4. Critically appraise these analytical approaches in the application of environmental monitoring with attention to the validation of environmental measurements through sampling strategies and quality control.
5. Apply skills learnt in this module to plan and present a scientific report

Syllabus

• Planning a sampling strategy
• Awareness of logistics, ethics, risk assessment
• Precision, accuracy and uncertainty
• Collection of data and analysis of samples in the field
• Range of laboratory analysis of soil, water and atmospheric samples - practice and theory
• Technical/professional report writing

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Workshop	10	2.00	20.00
Problem Based Learning	10	1.00	10.00
Fieldwork	1	7.50	7.50
Lecture	10	1.00	10.00
Independent online learning hours			7.00
Private study hours			145.50
Total Contact hours			47.50
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			200.00

Private study

• Preparation for fieldwork and workshops
• Independent reading
• Preparation of project report
• Revision

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Feedback during field work and workshops.
Formative feedback on a written report

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Report	2000 word project report	50.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		50.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Exams

Exam type	Exam duration	% of formal assessment
Online Time-Limited assessment	48 hr 00 mins	50.00
Total percentage (Assessment Exams)		50.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt.

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 29/04/2024 16:20:31

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