 So, my name is Matthias Leopold and I'm the coordinator for the major of environmental science here at UWA. And in case you have ever wondered how to help to manage some of the issues you might have heard in the media about our environment, about sea level rise, about declining of food chain, about problems and poisoning in park lands, whatever, environmental science might be the right subject for you to target in order to help to find solutions. So environmental science assesses the impact of human activity on our natural global environment. In order to find solutions and to help to sustain the management of our environment, you have to first fully understand how the environment works. And that can be quite a complex system because the biology, the geology, the chemistry and also the hydrology work together, so water, chemistry, air, everything works together with the biology to form our environment. So here at UWA we provide a huge variety of courses that will help you to understand and unlock some of the mysteries of the environment to better understand how it works. Once you gain these fundamental skills and knowledge of the environment, you then start to develop solutions and suggestions up to political recommendations. How should we act in a society? Hi, I'm Maddie Roberts. I'm in my honours here at environmental science at UWA. I studied environmental science at a young age. I always knew that that's what I wanted to do and I ended up pursuing that at UWA for my undergrad and my postgrad. We covered a lot of topics in the course. So in our first year we went through climate change, we did tectonic movements, we did the formation of the earth as well as the formation of the universe. That was really interesting and then as you go into second year your courses become more defined so you get to choose some of your courses. I did a double major in environmental science and conservation biology and through my conservation units I got to also study the environmental science biology line. I would say if you've got a passion for the environment definitely do it. It's really interesting. You get to learn things that are at the forefront of knowledge, you get to contribute to that literature base yourself if you feel like it and yeah go for it.