Students have ample opportunity to acquire a collection of local fauna. A study of marine fishes, reptiles and mammals, with and in-depth, comprehensive treatment of their systematics, zoogeography and ecology. Lectures encompass subject matter on a nonregional basis. Field an laboratory work stresses the vertebrate fauna of the northern Gulf of Mexico. Most of the course is devoted to fiches.
Students have an opportunity to assemble a collection of vertebrate species.
This course is a general survey of marine algae, and vascular and nonvascular plants associated with marine environment. Distribution identification, structure, ecology and reproduction are considered. Included in this course are sampling techniques, laboratory analysis of sediments, application of the research process to problems in identifying sedimentary environments, topography, sediments and history of the world's oceans. Marine geology is especially beneficial to biology students for an understanding of the sedimentary substrate on or in which a large percentage of marine organisms live. Lecture, laboratory and field work are included.