Topics addessing geomorphology, hydrology-hydrogeology, fauna and flora, ecology, and agricultural, branch, and forestry 
profits, applied to the identification, quantification, and diagnosis of environmental problems.

Activities and Methodology

Title	Hours	ECTS	Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed
Field Trip Conca de Tremp	40	1.6	CM30, CM31, SM39, SM41
Practical work in a natural environment - Campus UAB	4	0.16	SM39, SM41
Theoretical classes	6	0.24	CM30, CM31, SM38, SM40
Type: Autonomous
Project - Collective work and study	87	3.48	CM30, CM31, CM32, KM38, SM38, SM40

The learning methodology will include tasks developed both in the natural environment (in the field) and in the office (in the classroom-laboratory). A specific study area will be visited (Conca de Tremp, Pallars Jussà), where geomorphology, hydrology-hydrogeology, fauna and flora, ecology, and agricultural, livestock and forestry issues will be addressed. During the field work, students will become familiar with the techniques of landscape recognition and interpretation and will work with the different scales, both spatial and temporal. It will also be introduced in the activities of sampling and analysis of biological samples, as well as treatment of the data obtained.

In the classroom, students will acquire skills for the development of conceptual models and hydro-bio-environmental numerical models, which they will build and feed with the data they have generated during the field and cabinet tasks and others that may be needed and that will search later. Numerical modeling can be done with the help of specific freely accessible software. There will be a work and oral presentations by groups on the studied area.

 

THEORETICAL SYLLABUS and PREPARATION FOR THE FIELD TRIP (TE: 6h).Theoretical training on basic concepts, essential for the good development of the Project. This training will aim to integrate and complement the concepts achieved in the previous subjects, and to introduce students to the techniques of data acquisition in the field, sampling-analysis and construction-exploitation of models.

Introduction to the research area and background study.

Introduction to environmental geophysical research techniques. Data acquisition methodologies in the field, processing and modeling

 

LABORATORY PRACTICES - UAB CAMPUS. (PLAB: 4h). Laboratory practices in a natural environment at the UAB Campus. Characterization of natural watersystems and hydro-environmental sampling.

 

FIELD TRIP(PCAM and PCAMs: 40 hours; 5 days with overnight stay). Observation, description, measurement/sampling and analysis of the physical and biotic environment in a Basin system. Identification and diagnosis of environmental problems. Techniques for recognition, measurement and analysis of geobioenvironmental variables "in situ".

 

ORIENTATION FOR PERFORMING OF COLLECTIVE WORK and EVALUATION. Structure of the Project report (collective work conducted by students' teams) to be delivered by and its evaluation.

 

Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.

Collective work-Project: Report (35%) and oral presentation in front of the big group (35%). 
The project will include the approach of a GeoBioEnvironmental problem, the synthesis of the results obtained and 
diagnosis, and a solution proposal.
										
											
										
											Individual work, attitude and assistance during practices, and field trip (30%). 
Delivery of individual practical exercises.

For  students  evaluated on a maximum of 25% of the evaluative items that abandons the course, final grade will be 
NOT ASSESSABLE.