Geoscience

About this programme

This programme provides a detailed understanding of the Earth's systems and resources, and how these relate to many significant environmental challenges we face today including global warming, the transition to sustainable energy sources and the loss of biodiversity. You will combine your passion for the world around you with different geoscientific skills, concepts and viewpoints to explore and understand the Earth's landscapes and environments over time and help develop informed solutions to real-world problems. Did you know? Aberdeen is Top 5 in the UK for Positive Responses in Earth Sciences (National Student Survey 2025) Choosing the BSc Environmental Geoscience explores the nature of earth systems processes as a foundation for understanding environmental challenges, addressing climate change, and preserving and protecting our environment. The geosciences equip you with the expertise to use your in-depth knowledge of the Earth's surface and subsurface developed through field skills and the study of data to understand and help create a sustainable future for our planet. Geosciences combines environmental and human factors in the environment to examine our planet and our own impact on it. In addition to the immediacy of ice sheets, rising seas, habitat loss, and the protection of food and water security, Environmental Geoscience also brings in the long view through the scientific study of the origin and formation of the planet, how Earth’s life, environments and climate have changed through time, and how the impact of humans and our societies on the world have chang