The following courses are offered at these facilities. Field-oriented introduction to the interrelationships between marine and estuarine organisms and their environment with emphasis on quantitative data collection and analysis. Successful completion gives NAUI and MLML certification. Basic theoretical concepts of animal behavior, stressing the causation, development, and evolution of behavior.
Emphasis is on the marine environment.
Systematics, morphology, ecology, and biology of marine birds and mammals. The taxonomy, morphology, function, and ecology of marine fishes. A field oriented introduction to the structure, systematics, evolution and life histories of the major marine invertebrate phyla. Field oriented introduction to the structure, systematics, evolution and life histories of the minor marine invertebrate phyla. Introduction to the plants of the sea, marshes, and dunes, with emphasis on the morphology, taxonomy, and natural history of seaweeds and vascular plants.