Additional fieldwork and equipment costs

You can take a zero cost route through your course but there may be some additional costs if you choose an optional field course.
Additional fieldwork and equipment costs

In addition to normal study costs (books, stationery, printing etc.), we also supply laboratory coats and kits and Personal Protection Equipment (PPE).

There may also be costs relating to residential fieldwork.  The Faculty runs an extensive fieldwork programme which is an exciting feature of our courses. These vary in cost according to the location and the length of the field course. Below is a list of fieldtrips which ran in the 2013/14 academic year. Please note that several programmes run a compulsory residential field course.

Our fieldwork

Where the field course is a compulsory part of the programme, the transport, accommodation and the majority of food costs are paid by the Faculty.

There will be additional costs if you choose an optional field course. Occasionally, you will be expected to make your own way to a departure point – for example, when a field course is starting at the end of a vacation and it is more practical to meet at an airport rather than in Plymouth.

Students undertaking a field-based course are expected to have appropriate outdoor clothing and footwear.

Fieldwork Programme for 2015/2016 Academic Year

In addition to field days, the Faculty runs an extensive residential fieldwork programme both in the United Kingdom and overseas. The programme does change to respond to academic developments but the schedule below shows those which ran in 2014/15.  

Programme​ Date  Location 2015/16 cost to student
Animal Behaviour and Welfare stage 1 April South Devon Zero

Animal Behaviour and Welfare stage 2 April Netherlands Zero*
Biological Sciences stage 1 April South Devon Zero 
Biological Sciences stage 2​ September​ Azores   Zero
Conservation Biology stage 1 March​ Spain   Zero
Conservation Biology stage 2 December Mexico Zero
Environmental Science stage 1 October Slapton Zero
Environmental Science stage 2 March Malaysia £790
Environmental Science stage 2 March Cornwall Zero 
Environmental Science stage 2 March Malta £378
Environmental Science stage 2 October Dartmoor Zero

Geography and PPG students​ May​ Belize   £550* 
Geography and PPG students​ May​ Portugal £385*

Geography and PPG students​ May​ Sweden £420*

Geography and PPG students​ May​ USA £450*

Geography and Physical Geography and Geology stage 2 March Ireland Zero
Geography stage 1​ October​ Bath   Zero

Geography stage 2 September Brittany or Ireland Zero

MSc Geography stage 1 October St Ives Zero
Geology stage 1 October East Devon and Cornwall Zero
Geology, Applied Geol, MGeol and Geology with Ocean Science May Pembrokeshire Zero
  
MGeol stage 4 April Death Valley £820
MGeol stage 2 May Westward Ho! Zero
Geosciences stage 3/4 April Sicily £460
Physical Geography and Geology stage 2 May Spain Zero 
Marine Biology and Coastal Ecology stage 1 April   Roscoff   Zero
Marine Biology and Oceanography stage 2​ March​ Sweden   £374.11
Marine Biology stage 2 September Portugal Zero
Navigation and Maritime Science May Dartmoor Zero
Ocean Science September South Africa Zero*  

*students book their own flights