Student Projects in Environmental Science

Research projects are among the core components of many undergraduate and Masters degrees within environmental science and physical geography, and students  increasingly undertake courses in quantitative research methodology before starting on their own assignment. This one-stop-shop text guides students through their research project from the initial stages of choosing a suitable topic, of conducting the relevant experiments and interpreting the data, through to effective presentation of the results. Takes a case-study approach to illustrate the range of environmental science topics, with cases supplied by specialists in the field.Practical worked examples and self-assessment tasks illustrate key statistical and mathematical points so as to keep heavy theory to a minimumCovers software such as Excel, SPSS and mathematical modelling, and includes statistical tables

Dr Stuart Harrad is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham. He heads the NERC Network on POPs and has been selected to chair Dioxin 2008, a major conference on Halogenated POPs. He edited Persistent Organic Pollutants: Environmental Behaviour and Pathways of Human Exposure published by Kluwer in 2001. Lesley Batty is the author of Student Projects in Environmental Science, published by Wiley. Miriam Diamond is the author of Student Projects in Environmental Science, published by Wiley. George Arhonditsis is the author of Student Projects in Environmental Science, published by Wiley.