Summer Field Program 2008
Student Research Opportunities
(May 27 – July 18)
*RESEARCH STUDY PROGRAM – Lab
This course allows upper-level students an opportunity to gain valuable experience in designing a research project, sampling, analyzing data and presenting research findings. Research options encompass a broad spectrum of disciplines in coastal sciences that include marine aquaculture, marine biodiversity, marine biomedicine, marine ecology, marine education, marine fisheries, marine mycology, marine pathology and marine toxicology. This course could easily form the basis of a Senior or Honors Project. Prerequisites: four semesters of biology or permission of instructor. Instructor to be arranged. Special Topics: Research Study Lab; COA 490. Four semester hours credit.
*RESEARCH STUDY PROGRAM – Lecture
Students enrolled in the Research Study Program meet as a group once per week to discuss their ongoing research activities, problem solve, present findings and review pertinent literature. This course will engage students in a variety of scientific questions that are the subject of research at the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory. Prerequisites: four semesters of biology or permission of instructor. Dr. Jeffrey M. Lotz. Special Topics: Research Study Lecture; COA 490. One semester hour credit.
*Students must take these two courses jointly.
