TLÜ ÕIS

Field Work in Physical Geography

Course code

MLG6061.LT

old course code

Course title in Estonian

Loodusgeograafia komplekspraktika

Course title in English

Field Work in Physical Geography

ECTS credits

3.0

Assessment form

assessment

lecturer of 2023/2024 Spring semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Course aims

To support the development of skills for conducting field works and field experiments.
To create prerequisites for the development of skills to formulate a research report.

Brief description of the course

In the midle of June a 5 days long field practice takes place, where the students can apply most of the previously learned (MLG6060 methods: measurements of distance, height and area in nature and on maps. Surveying. Simple mapping and orienteering. Measuring parameters of water bodies: dimensions, area, depth, volume. Movement of water through the landscape.Temperature an oxygen regime, water transparency and colour. Sample collection methods and devices for sediments in water bodies. Describing and dating sediments. Biological, lithological and chemical analysis of sediments. Mires: vegetation, microrelief, hydrological regime. Peat: growth, decomposition rate, botanical and chemical composition. Landscape transect.

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
- has ability to analyse research data and formulate it as a report;
- has ability to position oneself in space and to solve the posed problems spatially.

Teacher

Reimo Rivis

Prerequisite course 1

Study Methods in Geoecology (MLG6060.LT)

The course is a prerequisite

Field Works of Landscape Hydrology (MLG6049.LT)

Study programmes containing that course