Marine Biology

Edmondson 152
2538 McCarthy Mall
Honolulu, HI 96822
Tel: (808) 956-8617
Fax: (808) 956-9812
Web: www2.hawaii.edu/~wormlab/gradspec.html

Graduate Faculty

I. A. Abbott, PhD--botany
G. Ahearn, PhD--zoology
M. Alam, PhD--microbiology
M. J. Atkindon, PhD--oceanography/HIMB
S. K. Atkinson, PhD--HIMB/zoology
W. W. L. Au, PhD--HIMB
J. H. Bailey-Brock, PhD--zoology
R. R. Bidigare, PhD--oceanography
R. E. Brock, PhD--sea grant/zoology
C. Brown, PhD--HIMB
R. Cann, PhD--genetics
T. A. Clark, PhD--oceanography/HIMB
S. Conant, PhD--zoology
I. Cooke, PhD--zoology
H. G. de Couet, PhD--zoology
M. Diamond, PhD--anatomy
A. Fast, PhD--HIMB
G. Grau, PhD--zoology
D. Greenfield, PhD--zoology
R. W. Grigg, PhD--oceanography
S. R. Haley, PhD--zoology
L. Herman, PhD--psychology
K. Holland, PhD--HIMB
T. D. Humphreys, PhD--biochemistry
D. Jameson, PhD--biochemistry
P. Jokiel, PhD--HIMB/zoology
D. Karl, PhD--oceanography
S. Kathariou, PhD--microbiology
E. A. Kay, PhD--zoology
R. Kinzie III, PhD--zoology
M. Landry, PhD--oceanography
E. Laws, PhD--oceanography
P. Loh, PhD--microbiology
G. Losey, PhD--zoology
P. E. Nachtigall, PhD--HIMB
J. Parrish, PhD--zoology
E. Reese, PhD--zoology
F. Robert, PhD--microbiology
H. Roitblat, PhD--psychology
C. Smith, PhD--botany
J. Stimson, PhD--zoology
C. Whittow, PhD--physiology
R. Young, PhD--oceanography

The Academic Program

The marine biology specialization is a University wide program focusing on recent advances in the understanding of marine systems at the ecological, organismic, and cellular-molecular levels. Students can select courses, advisors, and research opportunities from a wide range of specialities, including: marine botany, ecology, genetics, virology, microbiology, and zoology, aquaculture, behavioral biosystematics, biological oceanography, coral reef biology, fisheries and molecular biology.

The marine biology specialization is available to graduate students in botany, microbiology, oceanography, and zoology. Prospective graduate students should apply first to one of these programs. Applications from students who have been accepted to botany, microbiology, oceanography, or zoology who have also indicated a desire to specialize in marine biology are reviewed by the Marine Biology Admissions Committee.

Students specializing in marine biology supplement the courses required for a degree in their chosen field with courses specific to marine biology. The actual selection is determined by the student in consultation with his or her advisor. Graduate student research is carried out in the laboratories of the graduate faculty. These include laboratories in Edmondson Hall, Snyder Hall, the St. John Laboratory (botanical sciences), the Marine Science Building, the Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology (located on Coconut Island in Kaneohe Bay), the Bekesy Laboratory, and the Kewalo Laboratory of the Pacific Biomedical Research Center. Research capabilities include DNA sequencing using PCR technology; video and acoustic recording for ecological and behavioral studied of coral reef and planktonic organisms; transmission and scanning electron, ultraviolet, and light microscopy; electrophoretic analysis; flow cytometry; and radioisotope tracer studies.

Selected courses:

ANSC 360 Topics in Aquaculture Science (3)
ANSC 450 Aquaculture Production (3)
BE 604 Aquaculture Systems (3)
BOT 480 Algal Diversity and Evolution (4)
BOT 482 Adaptations of Plants to Marine Environments (3)
BOT 680 Marine Macrophytes Seminar (2)
MICR 653 Methods in Microbiology Oceanography (3)
OCN 450 Aquaculture Production (3)
OCN 621 Biological Oceanography (3)
OCN 626 Marine Microplankton Ecology (4)
OCN 627 Ecology of Pelagic Marine Animals (4)
OCN 628 Benthic Biological Oceanography (4)
OCN 653 Methods in Microbiology Oceanography (3)
OCN 750 Topic in Biological Oceanography (V)
PHYL 701 Undersea and Hyperbaric Physiology (3)
PSY 633 Behavioral Processes of Marine Mammals (3)
ZOOL 466 Fisheries Science (3)
ZOOL 467 Ecology of Fishes (3)
ZOOL 475 Biology of Invertebrates (3)
ZOOL 620 Marine Ecology (3)
ZOOL 666 Systematic Ichthyology (3)
ZOOL 716 Topics in Fish and Fisheries Biology (V)

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