Your Environmental Science and Earth and Environmental Sciences Offer

Congratulations on your offer. We hope to see you at one of our offer holder events. Take a look at some course info below and hear from our students.

Students on the Mt Etna trip

Join us

Our in-person and online events are a great way to find out more about your course, the community you'll be studying in, and they are an opportunity to meet staff and students, and experience subject taster sessions. Environmental Sciences student Katherine hopes you can make it!

Your offer holder event

The dates

  • Saturday 31st January 2026
  • Saturday 14th February 2026
  • Saturday 21st March 2026

Sample Schedule

Time

Event

10.30am

Arrival in department and registration

11am

Subject-specific talk with Admissions Tutors

11.45am

Student life at Lancaster followed by Q&A Session with ambassadors 

12.15pm

Light lunch in department

1pm

Applicants - Activities in department (3 x 30 minutes)
Parents - Q&A session and optional tour of the department

1.45pm

Wellbeing and support at Lancaster University talk

2.30pm

Event ends in department

2.30pm

Central activities (optional)
- Student Experience Hub
- Campus tours
- Accommodation tours

4.30pm

Event ends

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Learning on location

We take full advantage of our natural surroundings to create amazing fieldwork experiences, in addition to the opportunities to travel the world with optional overseas field trips. Fieldwork is a fascinating way to develop your practical skills. You’ll gain hands-on experience of a wide range of environmental, ecological and geological situations that will place your studies in the context of real-world issues.

  • Italy

    Visit Mount Etna and study the complex processes that take place both on the surface and beneath volcanoes. You will explore many physical volcanic processes, including lava flow emplacement, explosive events and the evolution of a basaltic volcano. You will also evaluate methods of managing volcanic hazards on densely populated active volcanoes.

  • Isle of Mull

    Study geologic and geomorphological processes and develop your field skills. You will collect field data to make a geologic map, visit some of the oldest rock formations in the UK and study a wide range of geologic terrains. You will gain excellent practical skills, including mapping techniques and learn about aspects of British geological history.

Environmental and Earth Sciences students describe their experiences and their enjoyment of studying at Lancaster University.

Ben Ireland, BSc Earth and Environmental Science

A place for Ben

I got a good feel for Lancaster when I visited an Open Day. It was clear to me that students were really behind their university and passionate about showing visitors their home. I could tell that the University had a supportive community of students and tutors, and this definitely rings true as a student who decided to study at Lancaster.

My favourite topic I've studied is geology, and I have had many opportunities to take my learning beyond the University and out into the field. We went to White Scar Caves to check out the different rock types and see for ourselves various rock formations. I found the experience really insightful, especially being able to see how the rock formed in sequence over time, it helped me to contextualise what we learn in lectures and relate it back to real environments.

My tutors are also academic researchers, which means that our learning is tailored around discoveries made at the forefront of science and innovation. I am able to study real, relevant subjects and learn about new developments in topics such as climate change and the effects on our ecosystems almost as they happen. My course has enabled me to take a field trip to Mount Etna - with so many opportunities to get hands-on with my learning, I know this degree can take me wherever I want it to.

Ben Ireland, BSc Earth and Environmental Science

Meet the Team

  • Dr Alex Bush, Director of Undergraduate Admissions and Outreach

    I am a lecturer of environmental remote sensing at Lancaster University, specializing in ecological modelling for monitoring, managing and conserving biodiversity at macroecological scales. I hold degrees from the University of East Anglia and Macquarie University in Sydney, and I subsequently took research fellowships with the Australian and Canadian governments. My interests are in methods and models that will support up-to-date ecological monitoring at national scales, that will guide and improve the sustainability of ecosystems as a whole, and that reduce the rate of biodiversity loss from our landscapes.

  • Professor Yani Najman, Admissions Tutor

    I am interested in using the detrital record as an archive of paleotectonics, climate and erosion. I utilise emerging and established provenance techniques, in particular isotopic fingerprinting and detrital thermochronology, to advance the detrital approach and apply it to novel geological problems. In orogenic settings, my work is focused on the Himalaya, Tibet and Pamir. My recent work extends the detrital approach to extensional settings, where I am determining the provenance of the Nile delta in order to reconstruct its palaeodrainage, and the relationship between its hydrology, rift tectonics, and ocean-atmosphere interactions.

  • Dr James Keeble, Admissions Tutor

    I use climate models to explore the impact of human emissions on the atmosphere and the wider Earth system. I am particularly interested in understanding how stratospheric ozone is projected to change in the future. I help to develop the next generation of Earth system models for use in international assessments, including the IPCC Assessment Reports and the World Meteorological Organization’s Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion. I teach undergraduate modules exploring atmospheric dynamics and atmospheric hazards, such as heat waves and hurricanes.

Keep in touch with us

If you would like more information, please feel free to email us at the Lancaster Environment Centre (LEC) at lec.ug@lancaster.ac.uk or telephone us at tel:+441524521772

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