Modules
Our Delve Deeper course is six months long, taught via five internet based modules, and a five day field course. Modules cover tropical, polar and coastal seas, the open ocean, life cycles and behaviour of sea organisms - and the human impact on oceans. Participants can download and work through content, and complete online assessments.
The field course will extend and enhance your enjoyment of the learning process by bringing to life marine biology as a discipline. This will be delivered at and around our Dove Marine Laboratory in Cullercoats, near Newcastle upon Tyne.
There will be some assessment, and a Certificate of Participation will be awarded to those successfully completing the assignments. The course is designed as a taster of more formal marine biology study leading to a degree.
Module One - Our Coastal Seas
Examining the intertidal shores and coastal waters of the UK and introducing some basic concepts in marine biology.
Module Two - The Open Ocean
Exploring life in the seas from the depths of the darkest oceanic trenches and abyssal plains to the fascinating cycles of plankton life in sunlit upper reaches.
Module Three - Field Course
Based at our Dove Marine Laboratory and Newcastle University, the field course will include field sampling techniques, laboratory practicals and microscope work, and lectures by our marine biologists.
Module Four - Tropical Seas
Introducing marine life in warmer waters, coral reefs and mangroves.
Module Five - Polar Seas
Describing the coldest seas on earth, perilously under threat from climate change, and the organisms that live there.
Module Six - Human Seas
Drawing together knowledge from previous modules, and information on human interaction with the marine environment, to examine our enduring relationship with the oceans.