OCN621: Biological Oceanography

Zackary Johnson (ph: 956-0844 / email: zij@hawaii.edu )

Karen Selph (ph: 956-7941 / email: selph@hawaii.edu)

Craig Smith (ph: 956-7776 / email: craigsmi@hawaii.edu)

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MWF 9:30-10:20am, MSB315

Course Syllabus

Course Objectives:

• To understand the processes affecting the distributions and abundances of marine organisms in space and time
  - develop a "feel" for the ocean environment & the selective pressures on organisms in it
  - define important problems & controversies
  - critically examine approaches (limitations) for studying ocean biological system sampling & experimental design
  - illustrate relationships among energetic, population, community, and system level processes & phenomena
• To understand the interactions of physical, geochemical, and biological systems in the oceans
  -examine the role of living organisms in the oceans in an ecosystem context

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