Experimental Marine Biology

By attending the course the student will achieve:

Knowledge:

The student acquires knowledge on experimental techniques to study the feeding, growth, grazing and respiration of different marine organismal groups, like bacteria, phototrophic and heterotrophic protists, metazooplankton, macroalgae, invertebrates, and fish. The student can identify and describe important processes in the marine environment such as growth, grazing, predation, respiration and as well as general physiology of marine organisms and relate that to the spatial and temporal distribution of organisms. The student will be able to identify and describe important processes in the marine environment and place them in a comprehensive biological context.

Skills:

The student will acquire knowledge on common methods, tools and techniques used in the study of marine organisms and processes (e.g., microscopy, particle counting, maintenance and preparation of organisms for experiments, use of oxygen sensors for respiration measurements in sediments and water samples).

Competences:

The student will be able to design scientific experiments, and perform and evaluate experimental techniques for measuring processes such as growth, respiration, grazing and predation, and the use of such data in evaluating the of organisms in time and space. The student can generalize existing knowledge concerning the structure and function of different marine systems.