"Considering both my time in the Nicholas School masters program ('83) and now my return to academia (current PhD sudent), the associations I have developed at the school, including those with students, faculty, and staff, strengthen every aspect of my professional experience—past, current, and future."

--Charlotte Clark, T '79, MEM '83
PhD Candidate

Biology Courses (BIOLOGY)

taught in Beaufort

114L. Biological Oceanography
Physical, chemical, and biological processes of the oceans, emphasizing factors controlling distribution and abundances of organisms. The theory, methods, and limitations of biological oceanographic research. The laboratory teaches quantitative methods, experimental design, data acquisition, data processing, and data analysis and culminates in a research cruise where the students organize into a scientific party.

One course (spring); one and one-half courses (summer). (Given at Beaufort)

Prerequisite: Biology 25L

Instructor: Staff.

Variable credit.