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Duration: Full-time, 60 months
Start date: September 2027
Application deadline: Before December 2026
Language: English

Overview

Biological oceanography research is conducted on spatial and temporal scales ranging from short-term interactions between individual organisms (mm., sec.) to interdecadal variation in widely dispersed populations.

The techniques used are diverse, and even within one space/time domain can include field observations, experimentation in the laboratory, and mathematical modeling. The Biological Oceanography program is offered by the University of California, San Diego.

Research topics include:

Primary and secondary productivity and nutrient regeneration
Community ecology of benthic and pelagic organisms
Food web structure and trophic ecology
Population dynamics, habitat changes and disruptions
Nonequilibrium ecosystems
Microbial ecology and biogeochemical cycling
Fishery biology and management
Marine mammal ecology and communication
Systematics and biogeography
Population genetics and evolution
Behavior as it affects distributions and food web interactions
Climate change impacts including warming, ocean acidification and deoxygenation

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Physical Oceanography
Marine Chemistry
Biological Oceanography
Pelagic Ecology
Fisheries Oceanography

Admission Requirements

Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

TOEFL iBT: 85
PTE Academic: 65
IELTS: 7

General requirements

Candidates for admission should have a bachelor's (BS) or master's degree in one of the physical, biological, or earth sciences; in some cases a degree in mathematics or engineering science is accepted.
A scholastic average of B or better (3.0) in upper-division courses, or prior graduate study, is required.
Two years of chemistry, including general and organic chemistry, and a year of general biology are required. Physical chemistry requiring calculus may be substituted for physics requiring calculus where a more elementary physics course was taken.
Preparation should also include a course in general geology and at least one course in each of the following categories: systematics (e.g., invertebrate zoology), population biology (e.g., ecology), functional biology (e.g., physiology).
In special cases, other advanced courses in mathematics or natural sciences may be substituted.

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Biological Oceanography

University of California, San Diego

9697 Campus Point Dr, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA

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