Work with our team to design a custom course or expedition for your university!

Field School collaborates with university departments to create unique field courses for undergraduate and graduate students. Our scientific and instructional staff are available to complement your faculty's expertise and provide hands-on research experiences and training to students, with minimal logistical effort on the part of your department.
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Explore some of the content and skills training we regularly offer to students as part of our courses and expeditions

Topics covered:

• Shark & ray biology & ecology
• Shark conservation & outreach
  
• Shark evolutionary biology
• Study design & gear construction techniques
  
• Shark stress physiology
• Shark species identification
• Skills for effective scientific outreach
• Mangrove ecology and conservatioin
• Seagrass ecology, conservation and monitoring techniques
• Coral reef ecology, conservation, and restoration techniques
• Pelagic fish ecology, conservation, and research
• Habitat and ecosystem interconnection

 
 Boat Skills: 

• Knot tying, including bowline, cleat, tail rope
• Boat terminology
• Line handling and safety skills

 
 Field Research Skills:

• Basic snorkeling and freediving techniques
• Baited Remote Underwater Video (BRUV) construction, baiting and deployment
• Seine net deployment and species collection
• Gillnet deployment and species collection
• Long line gangion construction, long line deployment and species collection
• Drum line deployment and species collection
• Safe handling and restraint of sharks during data collection and work up
• Fish trap construction, deployment, and species data collection
• Seine netting and juvenile and invertebrate ID
• Tropical marine fish identification
• Coral reef identification, and monitoring and restoration techniques
• Quadrat construction and seagrass bed monitoring techniques 
• Advanced options: blood draws and processing, suturing techniques

 
 Analytical Skills:

• Data and sample collection and basic field sample processing
• BRUV footage review and behavioral observation recording
• Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
• Introduction to experimental design

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