Tropical Marine Botany

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Credits 3. 2 Lecture Hours. 3 Lab Hours. A field-based course exploring the connections between primary producers and organisms that utilize the marine environment; observation, identification, and counting of organisms in tropical marine environments including phytoplankton in coastal waters, coral reefs, seagrass meadows, and mangrove forests. Prerequisites: MARB 215 ; concurrent enrollment in MARB 421 ; completion of swim test.