OCEA0019-1 : Biological oceanology

Study Programmes 2015-2016

OCEA0019-1

Biological oceanology

Duration :

30h Th, 8d FW

Number of credits :

Master in oceanography (120 ECTS)		8

Lecturer :

Sylvie Gobert

Language(s) of instruction :

French language

Organisation and examination :

Teaching in the second semester

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Course contents :

The biological oceanography investigates the ecology of marine organisms in the context of the physical, chemical, and geological characteristics of their ocean environment. It is closely aligned with marine biology, though the latter has more emphasis on the biology of individual marine organisms.
Outline contents:

Introduction
The Oceanography at the University of Liege
Definitions and topography: oceans , sea
Caractéristiques physiques et chimiques des océans (température, lumière, salinité, courants...); variations bathymétriques, saisonnières, spatiales
Distribution verticale et horizontale des organismes.
Biomass, production, productivity
A case study: the Calvi Bay.

Learning outcomes of the course :

....

Prerequisite knowledge and skills :

A good knowledge of the basis described in Physical and Chemical Oceanography and in Marine Ecology

Planned learning activities and teaching methods :

Organisation:
*Half of the courses are dedicated to theoretical aspects, the other one dedicated to tutorial classes (study of documents, video).
*A visit to the museum,
*The equivalent of sixteen half-days during the internship(training course) of ground (the methods of takings, study of the distribution(casting) of the bodies planctoniques (phyto, zoo) and nectoniques in connection with the physical and chemical structure of the bodies of water).

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :

Courses in face-to-face.
The attention of the student is regularly requested during tutorial classes, visits of museum.
Field trip at STARESO (Calvi-Corse)