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Lecture-laboratory course in marine biology focusing on physical, biological, and social aspects of the marine environment. Topics include oceanography, ecology, physiology, behavior, conservation, fisheries, exploration, and activism. Evening marine biology movies and weekend field trip. Honors section research project.
Explores how organisms function in marine habitats, what limits the size of marine populations, and how marine ecosystems are structured by human impacts. Examines physiological, behavioral, and physical mechanisms that determine fundamental aspects of life in marine environments from bacteria to marine mammals.
Evaluates the relationships between man and marine systems in a field-oriented class. Case studies directly investigate marine biology. Studies include human activities and our effects on marine species and communities. Multiple field trips, lectures, and labs.
Overview of communicable and noncommunicable diseases that affect fish and shellfish. Major pathogens of free-ranging as well as captive animals discussed. Students learn to recognize, prevent, and control economically and ecologically important disease syndromes.
Marine organisms, their quantitative distribution in time and space and their interactions with the ocean.
Primarily focused on biological processes and patterns in Washington's marine intertidal systems. The field/ lab component is a major part of the course -- a weekly lab and five field trips.
Explores the role of oceanography in regional issues. Field opportunities and active investigation of applied oceanographic problems. Lectures, research trip, student co-teaching, discussion.
Case histories, presentations, and class exercises used to teach methods of formulating a research problem and proposal writing. Methods of data analysis, presentation, error estimation, library resource and data base use; web page implementation and design. Principles of cruise planning.
Advanced genetic concepts and methods related to aquatic species' conservation and management. Includes genetic diversity, small populations and fragmentation, genetic viability, management of wild and captive populations (including aquaculture), reintroductions, hatchery-wild interactions and forensics.
Introduction to the use of GPS, GIS, and Remote Sensing in the ecosystem sciences. Integrates these technologies in an applied research setting. Two overnight weekend field trips required.
Evolution, taxonomy, physiology, life history, and behavior of marine mammals; the techniques of studying and the management and conservation of them.
Seminar series featuring local, national and internationally known speakers in fisheries management and conservation. Case studies. Conservation/restoration in practice.
Techniques and philosophy for conservation, management and development of harvested marine populations. Emphasis on integration of ecological, sociological, and economic dimensions of institutional decision making for policy formation in uncertain environments.
Lectures, discussions, and work on selected problems of an interdisciplinary nature.
Contemporary problems and issues in management, conservation, and restoration as they relate to fisheries and aquatic sciences. Topics vary.
Phytoplankton in the marine environment: ecology, primary productivity, and physiology. Phytoplankton growth and photosynthetic patterns; spatial and temporal distributions of phytoplankton; methods for determining distributions and rates of production and growth.
Analysis of marine benthic communities; new research questions and method; ecologically important physics of benthic boundary layer; theories, mechanics, and observations of deposit feeding; succession as consequence of physical processes and biological interactions. Environments include deep-sea, continental shelves, estuaries, and intertidal, focusing on soft substrata.
Principles and practice of biological oceanography for students with strong background in physical sciences but little recent exposure to biology. Ecological principles at individual, population, and community levels; overview of discipline of biological oceanography; case studies of interdisciplinary problems shared with the physical sciences.
Lectures, discussions, and work on selected problems of current interest.
Techniques of molecular analysis with emphasis on DNA methods, including PCR, DNA sequencing, RFLP, RAPD and VNTR analysis and cloning. Applications of these techniques to fisheries, aquaculture, oceanography, population and evolutionary studies, and other areas of science.
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