Department: Oceans

Code Name Description
OCEANS10SC Discover Monterey Bay through Oceanography Monterey Bay supports an amazing diversity of marine life and important fisheries. There is much to explore here, from the near-shore rocky reefs and kelp forests to a submarine canyon that rivals the Grand Canyon in scope. A day on the Bay can revea...
OCEANS114 Hopkins Marine Station Seminar Introduction to research in marine science through a weekly seminar series at Hopkins Marine Station. The weekly seminars will approach questions of development, physiology, ecology, evolution, and oceanography using contemporary methods. Class offer...
OCEANS123 Catalyzing Solutions for a Sustainable Ocean: Learning with Local Communities The ocean is impacted by overfishing, plastic pollution, climate change and acidification, which are leading to the disruption of marine ecosystem functions and services critical for human wellbeing. Ocean mining, offshore wind farming, increasing sh...
OCEANS125 Environmental Change and Marine Biodiversity In this course we will study marine biodiversity and the impacts of environmental change on ocean life and marine ecosystems. Students will first study fundamental aspects of physiology, ecology, and evolution in marine animals and plants. Then, stud...
OCEANS12N Sensory Ecology of Marine Animals Animals living in the oceans experience a highly varied range of environmental stimuli. An aquatic lifestyle requires an equally rich range of sensory adaptations, including some that are totally foreign to us. In this course we will examine sensor...
OCEANS140H Statistical Modeling (Graduate students register for 240H.) Introduction to applied statistical modeling in a Bayesian framework. Topics will include probability, regression, model comparison, and hierarchical modeling. We will take a hands-on, computational approach (R,...
OCEANS141 The Science of Extreme Life of the Sea Covers the way marine animals and plants live in extreme environments by examining morphological, ecological, and genetic adaptations to low temperature, high heat, deep water, etc. We also cover extreme lifestyles such as fast swimming, small and la...
OCEANS150 Listening to Build Trust for Climate Action: Perspectives As the world contends with the "wicked" problems posed by global warming, those seeking solutions must engage with a wide range of stakeholders bringing different assumptions, cultures, perspectives, and capacities. Skill-building often focuses on pi...
OCEANS157 Creative Writing & Science: The Artful Interpreter What role does creativity play in the life of a scientist? How has science inspired great literature? How do you write accessibly and expressively about things like whales, DNA or cancer? This course begins with a field trip to Hopkins Marine Station...
OCEANS161 Between Pacific Tides: Invertebrate Zoology in Monterey Bay Invertebrates range in size from microscopic mites to giant squid and are integral to ecosystems and their functioning. More than 97% of all described animal species lack a spine, and this course is an introductory survey of invertebrate diversity wi...
OCEANS170 Taking the Pulse of the Ocean: Innovative Technologies for the Blue Planet This will be an interdisciplinary course focused on the intersection of ocean science, marine biology, engineering and computer science. Students will develop an in-depth understanding of the quantitative and field challenges involved in collecting o...
OCEANS173 Marine Conservation Biology Class can be taken in-person or via Zoom. Introduction to the key concepts of ecology and policy relevant to marine conservation issues at the population to ecosystems level. Focus on the origin and maintenance of biodiversity and conservation applic...
OCEANS173A Marine Conservation Biology - Seminar and Discussion Only Class can be taken in-person or via Zoom. Introduction to the key concepts of ecology and policy relevant to marine conservation issues at the population to ecosystems level. Focus on the origin and maintenance of biodiversity and conservation applic...
OCEANS214 Hopkins Marine Station Seminar Introduction to research in marine science through a weekly seminar series at Hopkins Marine Station. The weekly seminars will approach questions of development, physiology, ecology, evolution, and oceanography using contemporary methods. Class offer...
OCEANS223 Catalyzing Solutions for a Sustainable Ocean: Learning with Local Communities The ocean is impacted by overfishing, plastic pollution, climate change and acidification, which are leading to the disruption of marine ecosystem functions and services critical for human wellbeing. Ocean mining, offshore wind farming, increasing sh...
OCEANS225 Environmental Change and Marine Biodiversity In this course we will study marine biodiversity and the impacts of environmental change on ocean life and marine ecosystems. Students will first study fundamental aspects of physiology, ecology, and evolution in marine animals and plants. Then, stud...
OCEANS240 Statistical Modeling (Graduate students register for 240H.) Introduction to applied statistical modeling in a Bayesian framework. Topics will include probability, regression, model comparison, and hierarchical modeling. We will take a hands-on, computational approach (R,...
OCEANS250 Listening to Build Trust for Climate Action: Perspectives As the world contends with the "wicked" problems posed by global warming, those seeking solutions must engage with a wide range of stakeholders bringing different assumptions, cultures, perspectives, and capacities. Skill-building often focuses on pi...
OCEANS257H Creative Writing & Science: The Artful Interpreter What role does creativity play in the life of a scientist? How has science inspired great literature? How do you write accessibly and expressively about things like whales, DNA or cancer? This course begins with a field trip to Hopkins Marine Station...
OCEANS261 Between Pacific Tides: Invertebrate Zoology in Monterey Bay Invertebrates range in size from microscopic mites to giant squid and are integral to ecosystems and their functioning. More than 97% of all described animal species lack a spine, and this course is an introductory survey of invertebrate diversity wi...
OCEANS262C Coastal Ocean Modeling Introduction to numerical methods for modeling flows in the coastal ocean and estuaries that are influenced by river flows, tides, winds and gravity waves. Topics include stability and accuracy analysis, curvilinear and unstructured grids, implicit/e...
OCEANS270 Taking the Pulse of the Ocean: Innovative Technologies for the Blue Planet This will be an interdisciplinary course focused on the intersection of ocean science, marine biology, engineering and computer science. Students will develop an in-depth understanding of the quantitative and field challenges involved in collecting o...
OCEANS3 Frontiers in Marine Biology An introduction to contemporary research in marine biology, including ecology, conservation biology, environmental toxicology, behavior, biomechanics, evolution, neurobiology, and molecular biology. Emphasis is on new discoveries and the technologies...
OCEANS330 Breathless in the Oceans This reading course will explore how oxygen and temperature changes affect marine life in the oceans, both in the geological past and with respect to modern global change.
OCEANS47 Introduction to Research in Ecology and Ecological Physiology This course is a field-based inquiry into rocky intertidal shores at Hopkins Marine Station that introduces students to ecology and environmental physiology and the research methods used to study them. Students will learn how to detect patterns quant...
OCEANS74 Sustainability in Marine Organisms: Learning from the Evolutionary Survivors While climate change has impacted life at land and sea, it's impossible to know exactly how fast species will adapt to warmer and more acidic sea water, and which species will survive into the future. In this course we will explore ancient marine org...