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 New Course - Physical-biological Oceanography Semester 1, 2012

This course will provide students with a clear understanding of the physical and biological processes in the ocean, the links between them, and the influence of physical dynamics on biology - from open ocean to coral reefs, from phytoplankton to fisheries to charismatic megafauna. Our changing climate is affecting the circulation and properties of our oceans, and the biology is responding. In order to understand the effects of climate change, we first need to understand how the ocean works. This course will challenge students with understanding the functioning of our oceans, and how the patterns and distribution of life in the ocean are controlled by the physical oceanography.

For more information http://www.uq.edu.au/study/course.html?course_code=MARS3012 or contact Dr Scarla Weeks ph (07) 3346-9056

 

Goodman Foundation

The Centre for Marine Science is grateful to the Goodman Foundation for its generous support in 2012 of five of our research groups. The projects have a wide range of personnel involved including honours students, PhD students and volunteers from the Moreton Bay Marine Park and Greater Brisbane Region. The donated funds will be used to support the students and volunteers while they are in the field and also to purchase field equipment and consumables for molecular laboratory work.

  1. A/Professor Ian Tibbetts - The thresholds of grazing in Moreton Bay

  2. Dr Kathy Townsend - Do flood events increase heavy metal body burdens in green sea turtles?

  3. Dr Selina Ward  - Coral recruitment in Moreton Bay: seeking answers to vital questions

  4. A/Professor Andrew Barnes - Why are our shellfish dying? Investigation of a new parasitic disease in Moreton Bay molluscs

  5. Dr Richard Fuller - Managing disturbance to shorebirds in Moreton Bay

 

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