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Offered By:	Faculty of Science, Faculty of Law, ANU Medical School, Faculty of Asian Studies, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, School of Art, and Faculty of Arts
Academic Contact:	Professor Tony Jakeman
Areas of Interest:	Mathematics and Resource Management and Environmental Science

Australia's environmental challenges and technically advanced society have put it at the international forefront of environmental modelling. Because of processes such as global climate change, desertification (including salinisation) and deforestation, we face critical environmental problems; for example, allocation of scarce water resources to meet increasing economic, water-quality and ecological demands. This Major combines an introduction to how mathematics and computing are helping to solve these problems together with courses dealing directly with environmental issues.

Career opportunities for graduates include research (CSIRO, universities, International Geosphere Biosphere Program), natural resource management (Murray Darling Basin Commission, Environment Australia, Bureau of Rural Sciences, state government agencies), and the private sector (environmental engineering, environmental impact assessment). Skills in this area provide a solid base for career opportunities also in other fields where mathematical modelling is crucial, such as engineering, finance and the sciences.

Later year students considering this major should note that for the third year ENVS courses, completion of either two or three second year courses in science, or permission of the lecturer, are sufficient prerequisites.

Requirements

This major will consist of a minimum of 42 units of courses including:

(a) MATH1013 Mathematics and Applications 1 or MATH1115 Mathematics and Applications 1 Honours MATH1014 Mathematics and Applications 2 or MATH1116 Mathematics and Applications 2 Honours

(b) MATH2305 Differential Equations and Applications or MATH2405 Maths Methods 1 Honours:  Ordinary Differential Equations and Advanced Vector Calculus 

(c) at least one of:

• ENVS2009 Ecological Measurement and Modelling
• ENVS2015 Introduction to Remote Sensing and GIS
• EMSC2015 Chemistry of Earth and Oceans
• STAT2001 Introductory Mathematical Statistics
• MATH2306 Partial Differential Equations and Applications 1
• MATH2406 Maths Methods 2 Honours:  Partial Differential Equations, Fourier Analysis and Complex Analysis 
• MATH2501 Foundations of Computational Science
• STAT3008 Applied Statistics
• MATH3511 Scientific Computing
• MATH3512 Matrix Computations and Optimisation

(d) MATH3133 Environmental Modelling and Integrated Assessment

(e) and at least two of:

• ENVS3024 Applied Geographic Information Systems
• ENVS3013 Climatology
• MATH3501 Scientific and Industrial Modelling.

First Year course advice

Students should take MATH1013/1115 and MATH1014/1116.