courses
Graduate Courses
MSMS 6007 Marine Mammalogy
This course provides an overview of the evolution, natural history, anatomy, physiology, biomedicine, husbandry, pathology, and conservation of cetaceans, pinnipeds, sirenians, and their allies. Students will have a broad understanding of marine mammals, their role in a variety of ecosystems, and the environmental issues related to their need for conservation.
MSMS 6212 Stable Isotope Ecology
This course is structured to offer a background in stable isotope biochemistry and how stable isotope ratios can be utilized in a variety of research. As a directed independent study, students will apply the techniques and their understanding to interpreting individual sample data. The lab fee includes the cost of processing up to ten samples.
This course provides an overview of the evolution, natural history, anatomy, physiology, biomedicine, husbandry, pathology, and conservation of cetaceans, pinnipeds, sirenians, and their allies. Students will have a broad understanding of marine mammals, their role in a variety of ecosystems, and the environmental issues related to their need for conservation.
MSMS 6212 Stable Isotope Ecology
This course is structured to offer a background in stable isotope biochemistry and how stable isotope ratios can be utilized in a variety of research. As a directed independent study, students will apply the techniques and their understanding to interpreting individual sample data. The lab fee includes the cost of processing up to ten samples.
Undergraduate Courses
Halmos College of Arts and Sciences
MBIO 1400 Explorations in Marine Science
This introductory course is designed to engage new marine biology students through faculty presentations, topical readings, and experiences in laboratory and field settings. Required of all incoming marine biology students.
MBIO 2500 Oceanography/Lab
This introductory course for the marine biology major will expose the student to more comprehensive principles of physical, chemical and geological oceanography.
MBIO 3450 Survey of Marine Mammals/ PNW Field Study
This course provides an overview of the anatomy, biomedicine, evolution, husbandry, natural history, pathology, and physiology of the cetaceans, pinnipeds, sirenians, and allies. The course consists of lectures and a field study trip to the Pacific Northwest in Washington, USA and to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
MBIO 3500 Food Web Dynamics
This course focuses on the biological and physical processes which contribute to a food web, such as population dynamics and energy flow, will be introduced in multiple estuarine and marine ecosystems, from coastal mangroves to offshore open waters. Specialized food webs, such as sea ice and hydrothermal vent communities, will also be introduced in this course.
MBIO 3600 Plankton Ecology
Marine and freshwater zooplankton, with limited discussion of phytoplankton, protozoans and bacteria, will be discussed in this course. A survey of holoplanktonic and meroplanktonic zooplankton will be conducted, including phylogeny, ecology and processes which influence production and diversity.
MBIO 3800 Island Biogeography
This course will introduce students to the study of the distribution and dynamics of species in island environments. Due to their isolation from more widespread continental species, islands are ideal places for unique species to evolve, but they are also places of concentrated extinction.
MBIO 3801 Island Biogeography Field Course - Remote Hawaiian Islands
This course will place the students within the terrestrial and aquatics ecotones of these oceanic islands to experience island biogeographic principles firsthand. The Hawaiian Islands are the most distant island archipelago from any continental land mass on the planet. As such it is a critical biological hotspot and more than half of all organisms are endemic to this island group.
MBIO 4990 Independent Studies
The student selects and independently carries out library and/or empirical research. Faculty supervision is provided on an individual basis. Prerequisite: Determined by faculty and department chair.
Farquhar Honors College
HONR 1000T Science in the News
This general education honors seminar is designed to give students the ability to see or hear news stories about the latest scientific discoveries and current events in science and assess the importance of these issues in our daily lives. Scientific topics may include but are not limited to: medicine, natural sciences, meteorology, climatology, and physics. This course satisfies general education requirement in science.
HONR 4990 Honors Thesis
Students carry out independent research related to an approved project or honors thesis. Faculty mentoring is provided on an individual basis. Approval of faculty member, department chair, and dean of the Honors College is required.
MBIO 1400 Explorations in Marine Science
This introductory course is designed to engage new marine biology students through faculty presentations, topical readings, and experiences in laboratory and field settings. Required of all incoming marine biology students.
MBIO 2500 Oceanography/Lab
This introductory course for the marine biology major will expose the student to more comprehensive principles of physical, chemical and geological oceanography.
MBIO 3450 Survey of Marine Mammals/ PNW Field Study
This course provides an overview of the anatomy, biomedicine, evolution, husbandry, natural history, pathology, and physiology of the cetaceans, pinnipeds, sirenians, and allies. The course consists of lectures and a field study trip to the Pacific Northwest in Washington, USA and to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
MBIO 3500 Food Web Dynamics
This course focuses on the biological and physical processes which contribute to a food web, such as population dynamics and energy flow, will be introduced in multiple estuarine and marine ecosystems, from coastal mangroves to offshore open waters. Specialized food webs, such as sea ice and hydrothermal vent communities, will also be introduced in this course.
MBIO 3600 Plankton Ecology
Marine and freshwater zooplankton, with limited discussion of phytoplankton, protozoans and bacteria, will be discussed in this course. A survey of holoplanktonic and meroplanktonic zooplankton will be conducted, including phylogeny, ecology and processes which influence production and diversity.
MBIO 3800 Island Biogeography
This course will introduce students to the study of the distribution and dynamics of species in island environments. Due to their isolation from more widespread continental species, islands are ideal places for unique species to evolve, but they are also places of concentrated extinction.
MBIO 3801 Island Biogeography Field Course - Remote Hawaiian Islands
This course will place the students within the terrestrial and aquatics ecotones of these oceanic islands to experience island biogeographic principles firsthand. The Hawaiian Islands are the most distant island archipelago from any continental land mass on the planet. As such it is a critical biological hotspot and more than half of all organisms are endemic to this island group.
MBIO 4990 Independent Studies
The student selects and independently carries out library and/or empirical research. Faculty supervision is provided on an individual basis. Prerequisite: Determined by faculty and department chair.
Farquhar Honors College
HONR 1000T Science in the News
This general education honors seminar is designed to give students the ability to see or hear news stories about the latest scientific discoveries and current events in science and assess the importance of these issues in our daily lives. Scientific topics may include but are not limited to: medicine, natural sciences, meteorology, climatology, and physics. This course satisfies general education requirement in science.
HONR 4990 Honors Thesis
Students carry out independent research related to an approved project or honors thesis. Faculty mentoring is provided on an individual basis. Approval of faculty member, department chair, and dean of the Honors College is required.