Examination (centrally administered) 60%, Online Test/Quiz 5%.

Biological Oceanography

MB5055 - Biological Oceanography

This subject examines plankton and their interactions with the physical and chemical environment. Thematically we explore the following: structures in the ocean, sampling equipment and oceanography; nutrients, productivity, phytoplankton and upwelling; planktonic consumers in the sea as well as their distributions, behaviour and life cycles, jellyfish fisheries, the survival of larval fish to recruitment and relevance to fisheries; impacts and manipulation of plankton, global climate change, pollution and applications for aquaculture.

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[Pre-requisite] (BS1007 OR BZ1007) AND MB2050 AND (SC2202 OR SC2209 OR BS2001 OR BZ2001)

[Pre-requisite] (BS1007 OR BZ1007) AND MB2050 AND (SC2202 OR SC2209 OR BS2001 OR BZ2001) Offerings: All

[Anti-requisite] MB5055 AND MB3059 Offerings: All

Students enrolling in this subject should have a good understanding of basic biological principles (eg BS1001) and marine systems (eg MB2050) and should have completed either SC2202 or SC2209 and MB2050 or equivalents.

Students enrolling in this subject should have a good understanding of basic biological principles (eg BS1001) and marine systems (eg MB2050) and should have completed either SC2202 or SC2209 and MB2050 or equivalents. Offerings: All

MB3050 - Biological Oceanography

To give a sense of the complex structure of the planktonic community over the full scale of variation across space, time and body size

To provide a practical familiarity with the techniques of plankton sampling, identification and analysis

To impress upon the student the fundamental significance of the plankton as the foundation of the economy of the sea and the nursery for most of its species

To give the student a new conceptual understanding of the ocean as a fabric of living organisms, rather than as a mere water mass