Dimensions and structure
The School of the Environment encompasses a broad range of disciplines (as listed below) that are vital to the teaching of its undergraduate Bachelor degree programs, research-based Honours degree programs, and Masters coursework programs. PhD and Masters by research programs are also generally available in these disciplines.
- animal behaviour and physiology
- plant physiology and ecophysiology
- wildlife and aquatic ecology
- stream and lake assessment
- environmental protection and management
- biodiversity assessment
- GIS and remote sensing
- geological processes
- marine communities and geosciences
- marine primary productivity and climate change
- coral reef ecosystems
- fisheries resources
We have an outstanding research profile, operating in conjunction with the Plant Functional Biology and Climate Change Cluster (C3), the Centre for Environmental Sustainability (CEnS), Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF) and Sydney Institute of Marine Science (opens an external site) to attract funding from a wide range of competitive grant bodies including the Australian Research Council (ARC), NSW Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH), Industry & Investment NSW (I&I) and CSIRO.
In addition staff, students, government agencies, industry and the community connect via a network of research themes including:
- Fish Ecology Lab (Dave Booth)
- Mars Study Group (Graziella Caprarelli)
- Arid Ecology Group (Andrea Leigh)
- Seagrass Inc (Peter Macreadie)
- Marine Biodiversity and Conservation Group (Bill Gladstone)
- Artificial Reef Ecology Group (Dave Booth, Peter Macreadie)
- Animal Behaviour and Wildlife Ecology Group (Ursula Munro)
