Fall Quarter at Bodega Marine Lab

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Fall Quarter at Bodega Marine Laboratory

Starting in Fall 2024!

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Come to the UC Davis Coastal campus and learn about our cool marine systems, while getting course credit!

The Fall quarter will be best for junior and seniors in any of the Marine and Coastal Science major tracks, but it is open for enrollment from other majors as well. 

Course Offerings:

The Fall quarter will include mandatory enrollment in the three upper division classes: Marine Microbial Ecology (EVE, 4 units); Marine coastal and field ecology (ESP 124, 3 units). In Fall of 2024, we will be offering an oceanography course (GEL/ESP 150A, 4 units oceanography. And we will offer a 1-unit journal club course (EVE/ESP 111), which is one of the requirements for the MCS major. Students will therefore end up in 12-15 units. 

We will also offer an optional research course (3 units) that would either be interning in a lab within Bodega Marine Laboratory or an independent research project.

See below for more information about each of the courses.

Location and Costs:

The courses will take place at Bodega Marine Laboratory, where there is housing and a meal plan. This will cost an additional approximately $5000 on top of tuition. Tuition will be the same as an on-campus Fall quarter, and Financial Aid will apply.

Course Information for Fall 2024:

Marine Microbial Ecology (4 units)

Course Description: The marine microbial ecology course (New class in EVE) will include a lecture and lab section and will be a survey of the field of marine microbial ecology through which students will learn methods in microbial ecology via field microbiological sampling, lab molecular techniques, and bioinformatics. Students in the course will participate in sampling for microbial communities, extracting DNA, preparing samples for sequencing, and analyzing data collected in previous years. This course can be considered a focus or breadth course on the Marine Ecology & Organismal Biology track of the MCS major.

Prerequisite(s): BIS2ABC or consent from the instructor

This course counts as a focus or breadth course in the Marine Ecology & Organismal Biology area for the MCS major.

This course counts for the MCS major.

This course counts for the MCS major.

Optional Course:

Research Course (3 units)

Course Description: This optional course will involve either an internship at a lab within Bodega Marine Laboratory or an independent research project.

This course counts for the MCS major.