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Marine Biology & Ecology Department

The Marine Biology & Ecology Department teaches marine ecology through population- and ecosystem-level modeling that simulates plankton community dynamics and biodiversity. Students train to interpret the resulting ecological processes and evolutionary patterns of marine organisms and ecosystems; by graduation, they have internalized the eye for quantitatively analyzing and forecasting change in marine ecosystems.

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Field-based Curriculum · 14

This department's curriculum is built directly on the GeoVerse Lab research fields its professors hold — click a field to see how it is taught.

Plankton Biology & Oceanography
Plankton Biology & Oceanography
A course on quantitative plankton sampling and productivity measurement whose co…
Victor Hensen
Deep-Sea Biology
Deep-Sea Biology
A course on deep-sea biodiversity and adaptation that trains evidence-based reas…
Charles Wyville Thomson
Ichthyology
Ichthyology
A course in systematic ichthyology that instils the standards of description and…
David Starr Jordan
Marine Mammalogy & Cetology
Marine Mammalogy & Cetology
A course on the evolution and population biology of whales and other marine mamm…
Remington Kellogg
Coral Reef Biology
Coral Reef Biology
A course on the structure and formation of coral reef ecosystems, using reef zon…
John Stanley Gardiner
Marine Invertebrate Biology
Marine Invertebrate Biology
A course on the taxonomy and comparative biology of marine invertebrates, aiming…
Alexander Agassiz
Benthic Ecology
Benthic Ecology
A course treating benthic marine organisms from functional and physiological per…
Maurice Yonge
Fisheries Science & Population Dynamics
Fisheries Science & Population Dynamics
A course on the principles of fish stock fluctuation and sustainable fisheries m…
Johan Hjort
Deep-Sea Exploration & Biodiversity
Deep-Sea Exploration & Biodiversity
A course on the history of direct observational deep-sea exploration and biodive…
William Beebe
Intertidal Ecology
Intertidal Ecology
A course teaching elementary ecology—zonation, species interactions, habitat pre…
Ed Ricketts
Marine Phycology
Marine Phycology
A course on seaweed taxonomy and physiology that uses the case of pigment compos…
William Henry Harvey
Crustacean Biology
Crustacean Biology
A course on crustacean diversity through the lens of systematic classification, …
William Thomas Calman
Plankton Monitoring & Polar Marine Ecology
Plankton Monitoring & Polar Marine Ecology
A course joining long-term plankton monitoring with polar ecosystem ecology, tea…
Alister Hardy
Marine Malacology
Marine Malacology
A course on molluscan taxonomy, centred on identification training keyed to shel…
William Healey Dall