Study Applied Geosciences?

Are you wondering what the energy supply of the future will look like and how the use of natural resources can be secured in the long term? These and similar questions are what geoscientists deal with. During extensive field exercises and laboratory investigations, we get to the bottom of the pressing questions of our time and conduct intensive research into solutions for a sustainable world.

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Judith,
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The great thing about the studies is the many excursions and practical elements. TU Darmstadt offers a lot of support and leisure activities for students. As a mentor at TU Darmstadt's student mentoring program, I tell students about my degree course and everyday student life. Outside of my studies, I enjoy going for walks, hiking or being outdoors in general. My favorite module: Excursions

Why geosciences?

What do geoscientists actually do? They ensure the supply of clean water, fossil and alternative energy sources, ores and salts and building and construction materials of all kinds. They deal with global climate change, with the pollution of the atmosphere, soil, water bodies and oceans and with the causes and effects of natural disasters. They examine and assess the geological subsurface for construction projects. And much more. Well-trained experts are needed for the variety of tasks and fields of activity involved.

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Applied Geosciences (B.Sc.)

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Applied Geosciences (M.Sc.)

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Geoscientists – where do they work?

We use our habitat in a variety of ways: we build houses, roads, dams and tunnels, pump drinking water and crude oil from the depths, extract the materials from which metals, ceramics, glass, cement and many other materials are made in large mining operations on and below the earth's surface.

However, the use of the earth by humans often also leads to a threat to the habitat. Pollution of air, soil and water, changes to large areas of landscape and the climate are the consequences. The use of natural resources must therefore be planned and controlled, and damage caused by human intervention must be avoided or remedied as far as possible.

Geoscientists are involved in all of these activities, from preliminary exploration to completion, together with other natural scientists and engineers.

All major social problems are also geoscientifically relevant topics (example: climate change). The number of jobs on offer is increasing due to the dwindling resources and reserves of metallic and non-metallic raw materials as well as the need for experts in the future topics of climate, water, energy, soil and the environment.

The approximately 20,000 geoscientists employed in Germany work, for example, in engineering offices, consulting firms or other areas of industry (construction industry, mining, oil industry, drilling companies, waterworks, etc.). Their activities are applied and deal with issues such as groundwater development and protection, stability of the subsoil, investigation and remediation of contaminated sites, prospecting and exploration of raw materials, prediction and prevention of natural disasters as well as environmental protection issues in the broadest sense. Applied geoscientists also work at universities or other research institutions as well as for authorities, agencies and associations.