While studying Oceanography, you’re learning to solve practical problems that impact oceans, from shallow coastal areas to the deep sea, taking into consideration human activities like pollution, fisheries, and climate change. You’ll develop important skills to better understand the physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of the ocean.
These skills may include:
- Application of environmental awareness and conservation knowledge to climate issues impacting oceans and marine ecosystems
- Experimental project design and implementation, including developing research proposals, technical data reports, and presentations
- Data processing and statistical analysis
- Computer modeling and cartography
- Focused field work that may include CTD casts, zooplankton and phytoplankton net tow sampling, and nutrient and element sampling
- Laboratory experience with processing nutrient samples, using microscopy and analytical methods with exposure to spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, electroanalysis, and chemical separations
- Usage of MATLAB, Python, R and speciation software