Predicting climate and climate change is a major challenge facing the scientific community. The oceans regulate the climate of the planet through storing and transporting heat. Complex issues such as climate change and sea level rise can only be fully understood if the role of the ocean and atmosphere is fully appreciated. This degree provides an understanding of how the ocean and atmosphere operate in the climate system, as well as offering a strong grounding in mathematics. It is offered in collaboration between the Department of Mathematics and the internationally renowned National Oceanography Centre in Liverpool, providing excellent preparation for careers in computer modelling in oceanography, meteorology or environmental monitoring. Department Key Facts Number of first year students 80 Number of applications per year 486 Graduate prospects 90.4% of our graduates are emlpoyed or undertaking further study within six months of graduating. (Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education Report 2009/10.) Around two thirds of our graduates stay in degree-related fields. Department resources 27 academic staff, 24 research staff and 14 technical and administrative staff. Excellent undergraduate computing facilities and newly refurbished undergraduate teaching and computing laboratories, with brand new exceptionally equipped teaching laboratories; Networked Earth Science Supercomputing Cluster; rock deformation laboratory; stable isotope laboratory; unique experimental scanning electron microscope; organic mass spectrometry laboratory; state-of-the-art trace metal analytical facilities; world-leading geomagnetism laboratory and the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, which is the UK centre of excellence for coastal physical oceanography. Research performance 75% of research activity deemed world-leading or internationally excellent - the joint 5th highest proportion in the UK. A further 20% of research activity is internationally recognised. The programme will cover core and advanced topics in mathematics and oceanography, and contains 75 credits of mathematics across Years One and Two. You will undertake a major research project and dissertation in your final year together with ship-based fieldwork.

There has never been a better time to study the Earth and Ocean Sciences. We have close links with geoscience and environmental industries, and to the National Oceanography Centre in Liverpool. The vast majority of our recent graduates gain employment within a degree related field or continue within further education on graduation.