Fieldwork:
St Vincent The volcano monitoring unit requires young, adventurous
students to live and work on a volcano for 2 weeks in July each year. Costs
need to be met from students own resources. We expect they would be working
alongside students and staff from France, Trinidad, and other islands of the
Caribbean. London to Trinidad costs about £700 return; Trinidad to St
Vincent about £90 pounds return. We hope to be able to provide somewhere to
stay for a couple of nights in Trinidad and then the guest house in St
Vincent is US$15 a night for a shared room We also use the volcano
monitoring unit accommodation, which is free, but on the wrong side of the
island. Food cost would be about EC$20 a day. Total cost for this would be,
say £1500.
The work will be led by a land surveyor, Dr Keith Miller of the
University of the West Indies at Trinidad or by a French volcanologist and a
French gravimmetrist.
The work involves gravity, topographic, magnetic, geological and
resistivity surveys.
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Newport, Shropshire A canal established by Thomas Telford has largely
disappeared since its closure in 1961. With the growth in recreational
activities along the remaining waterways, there has been renewed interest in
recovering lost canals. Work on this water body is largely land survey and
that so far been GPS heighting. With a control network established, there
are a few years of field weeks left to do to determine the topography of the
land and help establish proposals for the new engineering works. Costs to
students include travel to and accommodation & victualling in Shropshire,
coming to about £300.
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Cherbourg, Normandy, France The protected anchorage around Cherbourg
contains the largest artificial area in Europe and possibly the world. ‘La
petite rade’ and ‘la grande rade’ have been surveyed by the local college,
Intechmer, but with much field work still to occur. As with the studies
local to the University of Plymouth in Plymouth Sound, there is a range of
field opportunities such as undertaking geodetic, tidal, tidal stream,
sedimentary sampling, side-scan sonar and sub bottom profiling surveys.
Processing of these data by digital mapping or in building a Geographical
Information System for scientific or cultural studies offer further
opportunities. Costs to students include travel to and accommodation &
victualling in Cherbourg, coming to about £800.
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Plymouth Sound There is a range of field opportunities such as
undertaking geodetic, tidal, tidal stream, sedimentary sampling, side-scan
sonar, sub bottom profiling and swathe sounding surveys. Processing of these
data by digital mapping or in building a Geographical Information System for
scientific or cultural studies offer further opportunities. 3D terrain
models and fly-throughs are common outputs from the swathe sounding survey
students. Remote Sensing imagery of Plymouth Sound, the seas around the
British Isles and further around the world all offer scientific laboratory
based activities. There are no costs to students in term time. Some work is
included within the timetabled field weeks and the equipment is booked to
coincide with these. Project work and work outside of terms has to fit in
with the availability of the vessel and other demands on equipment.
