Sustainable Water Environments

The Sustainable Water Environments program of the University of Glasgow will provide you with multidisciplinary knowledge and expertise in river catchment, lake and coastal environments, with a focus on the impact of and adaptation to changing environments.

Key facts

• The Sustainable Water Environments program of the University of Glasgow is designed to enable you to develop an in-depth and critical understanding of contemporary global issues in surface water environments including climate and land use change, flood risk, restoration, ecosystem health, and associated management perspectives.

• MSc project options are either in collaboration with industry, or academic researchers in the School’sEarth Systems Research Groupor theScottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC).
• The School owns specialist laboratory and field equipment.
• You will attend a residential semester 1 field class integrated into the 'monitoring water systems' course.
• The School of Geographical & Earth Sciences has an Athena Swan Silver Award, demonstrating the school’s commitment to supporting women in scientific studies and careers, and to improving the working environment for all.
• Career prospects
• You will be well equipped for a variety of industrial career paths in the environmental sector, including roles that specifically focus on the surface water environment. In the UK, these roles may be with government agencies (e.g. Scottish Environmental Protection Agency, Environment Agency) or industry (e.g. environmental consultancies such as JBA, AECOM, ARUP, RoyalHaskoningDHV, Jacobs, cbec). Equivalent opportunities are available internationally. You will also be well qualified to pursue a doctoral degree.
• Example employment positions for graduates from this program include coastal-, fluvial- or hydrogeomorphologist, coastal, marine, lake, fluvial or freshwater scientist, Geographic Information
• Systems (GIS) officer/geospatial analyst, marine or coastal systems modeller, environmental analyst/ officer/ consultant, flood risk modeller/policy advisor, reinsurance/insurance flood hazard analyst, Hydrologist and Coastal- or fluvial-geomorphology restoration specialist.

Courses include:

• Environmental Statistics
• Modelling Water Environments

• Monitoring Water Environments
• Managing Sustainable Water Environments: Policy And Practice
• Principles Of Gis
• Remote Sensing Of The Environment