Yet another milestone has been reached and yet another landmark chapter been written for the Master of Science in Applied Oceanography, with the graduation of the first group of students who successfully completed the course during the 2014-2015 academic year. Sara Baldwin, Denise Desira, Hazel Farrugia and Nicole Scerri were the first four students who successfully followed the course, also representing the first four graduates for the newly-fledged Department of Geosciences within the Faculty of Science.
The titles of the four dissertations submitted by these students last September were:
The titles of the four dissertations submitted by these students last September were:
- Route optimisation for offshore class boat races in the Central Mediterranean (Sara Baldwin)
- Coastal water mixing around the Maltese Islands using the Rosario-SHYFEM model (Denise Desira)
- Water quality monitoring in the Maltese Islands through the computation of the CSI023(+) and TRIX indices using satellite data (Hazel Farrugia)
- The risk of earthquake- and submarine landslide-generated tsunami hazards in the Maltese Islands (Nicole Scerri).
The M.Sc. in Applied Oceanography is a one-year, full-time course, which runs over three consecutive semesters and which also includes a one-week boot camp, during which students are immersed in the practical field deployment of instrumentation, the analyses and interpretation of data being collected, as well as a dissertation within the third semester.
The course is intended to train postgraduate students and professionals on state-of-the-art methodologies and tools to measure, understand and predict the marine environment, and derive sustained benefits from the sea. It is offered by the Physical Oceanography Research Group within the Department of Geosciences, whose resident academics are Prof. Aldo Drago (Course Director), Prof. Alan Deidun, Dr Anthony Galea and Mr Adam Gauci. The course faculty includes a number of local lecturers as well as high profile foreign experts in the field of operational oceanography.
The course is intended to train postgraduate students and professionals on state-of-the-art methodologies and tools to measure, understand and predict the marine environment, and derive sustained benefits from the sea. It is offered by the Physical Oceanography Research Group within the Department of Geosciences, whose resident academics are Prof. Aldo Drago (Course Director), Prof. Alan Deidun, Dr Anthony Galea and Mr Adam Gauci. The course faculty includes a number of local lecturers as well as high profile foreign experts in the field of operational oceanography.
Further information about the M.Sc. in Applied Oceanography course, which is currently running into its second year, is available online.