Student Opportunities
Unity emphasizes experiential educational opportunities which means that you'll apply your classroom studies by conducting field work in the outdoors. Marine biology students engage in learning exercises through a variety of ways ranging from classroom lectures, indoor wet labs, to outdoor studies on and off campus. Students conduct research, participate in internships across the country, design independent studies, and even join the marine biology club.
Student Experiences
Marine biology students study the habitat, ecology, and biology of the sometimes bizarre, sometimes exotic, often unique organisms that inhabit the nearby Gulf of Maine and the other seas and oceans of the world. Hands-on field experiences bring the classroom to life and here's how marine biology students are involved in fun and challenging learning opportunities.
- Touring a marine mammal rehabilitation lab.
- Visiting a satellite oceanography lab.
- Examining shellfish at an aquaculture lab.
- Training for their PADI scuba certification to carry out underwater transects and other subtidal studies.
- Conducting field work at Moose Point Park, Ducktrap, Belfast Estuary, and other sites in Maine.
- Spending weekends at a marine station using research vessels to examine subtidal organisms, such as sponges and sea cucumbers.
- Being in an active marine biology club with field trips to regional aquariums including the New England Aquarium.
Student Research in Marine Biology
Throughout the Marine Biology curriculum, students are taught to apply the scientific method to the marine environment. This is most evident in two places: in the marine journal that is produced in the sophomore Marine Biology course, and in the capstone Marine Feild Ecology course.
Marine Biology students have also completed senior theses investigating a number of hypotheses in detail. Students have undertaken projects that ask:
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