Spring Courses

SPRING TERM – MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Imagine a 15-credit course where you eat, breath and sleep marine biology for ten weeks, Monday through Friday, 8 am to 5 pm, sometimes earlier and sometimes later and sometimes on the weekend and LOVING IT! Each spring, marine biology students take up residence at the center for Oregon State University's 15-credit course in marine biology, dividing their time between lectures in the classroom, field study along the coast, and laboratories in one of our wet labs. Students learn to observe, identify, and collect seaweed and invertebrates, trawl for fish aboard the R/V Elakha, and muck through the mudflats and estuaries. Follow our students in the class journal blog.

Teaching Marine Biology Writing in the Field: An Interview with Sally Hacker