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MPhil Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences - 2 Years (Full-time)

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Individual programme fees are linked above. For detailed information on fee status, policies, payment and funding opportunities see:

Students may incur additional costs when studying. For example this may be for field trips, course equipment, or specialist fees.

A minimum of £1,000 per annum (normally paid directly by sponsors for those on studentships). Additional costs may be required depending on study requirements.

Contact information: Postgraduate Secretary
Phone: +44 (0)131 650 8556
Email: go@geos.ed.ac.uk; Address: School of GeoSciences
Grant Institute
West Mains Road, King's Buildings
Edinburgh
EH9 3JW

Our objective is to understand and predict Global Environmental Change. We study how ice, oceans, atmosphere, land surface and biosphere have interacted in the past, we probe their current processes, and we develop predictions of their future dynamics.

Entry requirements

International students

All applicants must meet our general entry and language requirements. Detailed advice for international students is available here:

Research profile

Human impacts on our planet are changing the atmosphere, climate, ice cover, global biogeochemistry, biodiversity, soils, and even ocean circulation. This puts Global Change at the centre of the international scientific agenda.

A key aim of the Global Change Group is to forecast the nature of change in the Earth System. This relies on understanding the building blocks of the system, represented by the Group's programmes: Atmosphere, Biosphere, Cryosphere, Continents, and Oceans.

These programmes involve fieldwork, monitoring, experimentation, theory and simulation, designed to determine how the earth's systems work, how they operated in the past and where they are going in the future.

The Global Change Research Group is organised around five programmes, each with its own separate web page. You can find them under Atmosphere (Global Change), Biosphere (Global Change), Continents (Global Change), Cryosphere (Global Change) and Oceans (Global Change). For more information, please refer to the web page.

Training and support

Research students have access to an exceptionally wide range of masters taught and research-training courses offered by the broad interdisciplinary interests within the School.

In collaboration with the College's Transkills unit, we also provide generic courses specific to research student needs and requirements.

We encourage all our students to undertake demonstrating and tutoring work for the School's undergraduate programmes, for which appropriate training is given.

Funding

The School receives sizeable studentship quota allocations from Research Councils and also has studentships from successful consortium bids and research grants. School-funded scholarships are also available.

Please see Scholarships and Student Funding Services for other funding opportunities:

Scholarships and Student Funding Services

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This article was published on Apr 25, 2013