- Marine Biology

Catalog description

A deep dive into marine life that applies and leverages the students’ diverse expertise and interests within Biology. Students will explore the physiologies and ecological phenomena associated with life in marine environments including the open ocean, deep sea, coastlines, estuaries, coral reef systems, and ice. Connectivity and interaction between these habitats and their occupants is a focus. This course is taxonomically broad fish, sharks, marine mammals and seabirds, as well as invertebrates, algae and bacteria and students will additionally explore how these organisms and their environments change over time in response to historical and emerging pressures.