This course provides students with a "window to the underwater world" while taking them on a virtual tour of the world's oceans and their environments. Topics include coral reef ecology, marshes and bays, the open ocean, the deep sea, aquaculture, ocean research at sea, marine fouling organisms, ocean pollution, sustainability and management of oceanic resources, and a special presentation on seashells of the world. Students have the opportunity to participate in local ocean conferences and field trips to the New England Aquarium and Cape Cod National Seashore. Distance students can participate virtually or conduct independent local field trips. (4 credits)
ENVR E-110 Sustainable Ocean Environments (21784)
George D. Buckley, MS, Assistant Director of the Sustainability and Environmental Management Program, Harvard Extension School
Class times:
Mondays beginning Jan. 28, 7:40-9:40 pm. Optional sections to be arranged.
Course tuition:
noncredit $1,045,
undergraduate credit $1,045,
graduate credit $2,000
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