Sample Courses
- Invertebrate zoology covers representative invertebrate groups with an emphasis on marine forms, morphology, systematics, life history, and ecology.
- Estuarine ecology includes the biological and physical factors regulating abundance, distribution, production, and biodiversity within estuaries. This class explores marshes, tidal flats, and estuarine habitats.
- Biological oceanography examines patterns of biological productivity and the physical and chemical mechanisms in the various environments of the world’s oceans.
- Marine molecular physiology takes molecular and physiological approaches to understanding how marine organisms work. The class also covers mechanisms that organisms use to deal with changing conditions, including temperature, salinity, oxygen, and development.
- Marine birds and mammals teaches principles of morphology, physiology, evolution, life history, and systematics as demonstrated through study of birds and mammals of the Oregon coast. The class also compares the fauna from the open sea to those from coastal waters.
Interdisciplinary Opportunities
Marine biology students spend time on the Eugene campus and at OIMB. In Eugene, students take introductory biology courses and fulfill chemistry, mathematics, physics, and general education requirements.
Students majoring in marine biology receive the same solid foundation in modern biology (including cell biology, molecular biology, evolutionary biology, physiology, and ecology) as a UO biology major. For this reason, marine biology students often find the same minors to be complimentary—geology, environmental science, chemistry, or physics.
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