Natural Resource Geosciences (Master)

Unfortunately, it will no longer be possible to enrol on this course from winter semester 19/20. The course will be discontinued!

This innovative degree program combines the tradition of Clausthal University of Technology, which emerged from a renowned mining academy, with its modern expertise in the exploration, development and extraction of mineral resources. Its internationally sought-after graduates will help to secure the fundamental needs of mankind for geogenic energy sources, raw materials and water.

The specializations of the degree course are among the most sought-after employment sectors in the geo sector, regardless of economic fluctuations.

Energy resources and geothermal energy: This specialization is primarily aimed at the international oil/natural gas industry and the geothermal energy industry, which is predicted to have a great future - also in Germany. It is about specialists who, on the one hand, have mastered geosystemic thinking in space and time, understand standard and problem situations and have sound classical geoscientific know-how, but who have also acquired in-depth specific knowledge. Most of the time, they work in interdisciplinary teams on joint issues, often together with engineers. This takes place in larger industrial companies, consulting firms and offices, but also in public authorities. The tasks are very varied; management positions can be achieved and foreign assignments are typical.

Mineral Resources and Groundwater: This specialization is aimed on the one hand at the international ore mining industry and nationally at the rather medium-sized stone and earth industry, and on the other hand at German and international employers in the field of water development and management with an environmental focus, typically in rather smaller companies, but also in public authorities. Here, too, graduates will hold positions in which - in addition to their specialist expertise either in raw material prospecting, exploration and evaluation or in the field of groundwater flow and hydrogeochemistry - they will above all contribute their fundamental geoscientific thinking and apply their knowledge of minerals, rocks, geological storage conditions and processes in a success-oriented economic environment.

The degree program primarily comprises applied geoscientific and reservoir engineering courses in two specializations:

• Energy resources and geothermal energy
• Mineral Resources and Groundwater

In addition to the compulsory modules, there are freely selectable compulsory elective modules that enable individual curricula to be designed, e.g. with a focus on oil/natural gas geology, mineral deposits, geothermal groundwater or geophysics. In addition to theory, training in geoscientific methods and in the field is a top priority.

Compulsory modules

• Introduction to the geosciences of energy sources and raw materials
• Hydrogeology
• Borehole geophysics
• Applied geoinformation
• Field exercises
• Scientific presentation

Compulsory elective modules on energy resources and geothermal energy

• Occurrence and properties of fossil fuels
• Petrophysics and seismics
• Reservoir modeling
• Special geothermal energy
• Applied stratigraphy and facies

Compulsory elective modules on mineral resources and groundwater

• Ore deposit science
• Geochemical fundamentals of mineral deposits and industrial mineralogy
• Rock and soil deposits
• Groundwater engineering methods and hydrogeophysics

Phone: +49 5323 72-2684,
Secretariat +49 5323 72-2230
Fax: +49 5323 72-2903
E-mail: ma.rohgeo@tu-clausthal.de
Institute of Geology and Palaeontology
Leibnizstraße 10
38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld