Assessing and managing environmental risks associated with contaminated soil, groundwater and geological hazards is of critical importance to environmental engineering.

The course provides an introduction to the professional assessment and management of contaminated land and groundwater. Through the course you will learn how to conduct environmental site assessments for potentially contaminated land, in accordance with state and national policies. You will learn fundamental skills required by professional environmental site assessors, including geochemistry, soil and groundwater assessment methods and basic environmental and health risk assessment.

You will work with environmental data to develop conceptual site models and remediation or management strategies for contaminated soil and groundwater.

Please note that if you take this course for a bachelor honours program, your overall mark in this course will be one of the course marks that will be used to calculate the weighted average mark (WAM) that will determine your award level. (This applies to students who commence enrolment in a bachelor honours program from 1 January 2016 onwards. See the WAM information web page for more information.)