UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA MARINE SCIENCES 1

Marine Sciences MAS 134L Ocean Science Laboratory 1 cr MAS 371 Shark and Ray Biology 2 cr Laboratory experiences associated with BLY 134. This course will provide an introduction to biology of sharks and rays, with special emphasis on regional shark MAS 134 Ocean Science 3 cr fauna and field techniques. Topics to be covered include An introduction to physical, chemical, geological and chondrichthyan origin, systematics, sensory biology, biological oceanography. Equivalent to BLY 134. trophic ecology, reproductive biology, life history, ecology, and conservation. Lectures will be supplemented MAS 331 Marine Science I 3 cr with discussions of papers from the primary literature to This course will present the basic principles of geological familiarize students with current research. In addition, and physical oceanography. Marine science is an longline, trawl and gillnet sampling will provide students interdisciplinary science field in which geology, physics, with firsthand knowledge of field techniques and local shark chemistry and biology interact in complex ways that are identification. Equivalent to BLY 371. fundamental to the oceanic environment. This course Pre-requisite: ( (BLY 121 Minimum Grade of D or BLY 141 will examine the characteristics of oceanic and coastal Minimum Grade of D) and (BLY 122 Minimum Grade of C geomorphology and the associated marine sediments or BLY 142 Minimum Grade of C) and (BLY 301 Minimum as well as the circulation of water masses that reside in Grade of C or BLY 341 Minimum Grade of C) and (BLY 302 these different regions of the world's oceans. Geological Minimum Grade of C or BLY 311 Minimum Grade of C) and oceanography topics that will be covered include: Structure (BLY 303 Minimum Grade of C or BLY 325 Minimum Grade and evolution of ocean basins, types and properties of of C) ) marine sediments, sediment transport processes and characterizing coastal regions. Physical oceanography MAS 430 Marine Botany 4 cr topics that will be covered include: basic physical laws, A general survey of marine algae and vascular and non- properties of the water and the ocean, air-sea interactions, vascular plants associated with the marine environment. general circulation and coastal processes. Distribution, identification, structure, ecology, and reproduction will be considered. Course offered only through MAS 332 Marine Science II 3 cr Marine Environmental Science Consortium, (usually taught Oceanography ("ocean"= the marine environment, in the summer semester). Equivalent to BLY 430. and "graphy"= the study of) is literally the study of the Pre-requisite: ( (BLY 121 Minimum Grade of D or BLY 141 marine environment. In practice, oceanography is an Minimum Grade of D) and (BLY 122 Minimum Grade of D interdisciplinary science at the intersection of geology, or BLY 142 Minimum Grade of D) and (CH 115 Minimum chemistry, physics and biology. Marine Science II focuses Grade of D or CH 131 Minimum Grade of D) and (CH 116 on fundamental concepts in chemical and biological Minimum Grade of D or CH 132 Minimum Grade of D) ) oceanography. The study of chemical oceanography will encompass dissolved components, stratification, chemical MAS 451 Marine Zoology 4 cr tracers, , and global A study of marine , with emphasis on ;their warming. This will lead to an introduction to biological systematics, zoogeography, and ecology, (usually taught in oceanography, which will include organismal biology, marine the summer semester). Equivalent to BLY 451. adaptation and fisheries. In-class lectures will provide the Pre-requisite: ( (BLY 121 Minimum Grade of C or BLY 142 students with the foundation to understand the principles Minimum Grade of C)