iEarth fosters a student-centered, innovative learning environment that empowers future earth scientists and citizens to address complex societal challenges.
Students engage in active learning and real-world problem-solving in an earth science education with a global perspective.
iEarth is the Centre for Integrated Earth Science Education
Like the medical sciences, earth sciences deal with a system of existential importance to human life and well-being. Traditional disciplinary labels (e.g. 'geology') fall short when faced with the interconnected web of phenomena that make up the earth system (e.g. the carbon cycle).
To highlight what connects us as earth scientists and to counteract disciplinary fragmentation, we can think of earth science in terms of five highly interconnected phenomena that are of existential importance regardless of how we might study them:
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