GIS for Land and Coastal Management - GEOS3014. Year - 2023. The critical role of geospatial science in major disturbance events, such as bushfires, coastal monitoring and mapping spatio-temporal trends in NSW COVID-19 cases, has placed GIScience at
Oceans, Coasts and Climate Change - GEOS2115. Year - 2023. This unit of study introduces core concepts about how the formation of ocean basins and their influence on climate govern the development of coasts and continental margins. These concepts
Soil Processes, Assessment and Management - AFNR5511. Year - 2023. Soils support agricultural and natural ecosystems and regulate environmental interactions between the hydrosphere and atmosphere. It is the quality of our soils that affect
Plant Management in Agroecosystems - AGRI2001. Year - 2023. World population is projected to reach 9 billion within 50 years and food production needs to double in a sustainable manner in order to feed human population. This profound challenge will
Earth's History and the Biosphere - GEOS2124. Year - 2023. The Earth's environments are continuously disrupted by astronomical, geological, and anthropogenic processes acting at various temporal and spatial scales. Understanding the rise, decline
Practical Ethics - PHIL2617. Year - 2023. This unit draws on contemporary moral philosophy to shed light on some of the most pressing practical, ethical questions of our time, including euthanasia, abortion, surrogacy, censorship, animal rights,
HDR Astrophysics and Space Science - PHYS5122. Year - 2023. Modern astrophysics covers a vast range of scales, from processes within the Solar System which allow for direct testing, to processes that take place in distant places and times, such as
Field Geology in the Digital Age - GEOS3008. Year - 2023. Understanding the processes by which the Earth is shaped, rock systems evolve, and mineral resources are formed, is key to address the challenges of sustainable development (cf. UN
Sex, Gender, Culture - GCST1602. Year - 2023. How does gender organise lives, bodies, sexualities and desires? How does gender relate to sex and sexuality? Are there really only two genders? How and why is gender such an integral part of how we
Dr Xiaoyan Zhou is currently a lecturer at Sydney Dental School. She completed her bachelor degree with honours at Guanghua School of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University in 2007 and a Master of…