Postgraduate Marine Science courses

Course code Course title Semester offered Coordinator
MARINE 701 Current Issues in Marine Science S1 Richard Taylor
MARINE 702 Field Techniques in Marine Science S1 Craig Radford
MARINE 703 Marine Protected Areas
S2 Nick Shears
MARINE 705 Ocean Management and Planning S2 Nick Shears
MARINE 707 Applied Estuarine Ecology S2 Simon Thrush
MARINE 796 MSc Thesis in Marine Science   Find a supervisor

Our postgraduate Marine Science adviser is Alwyn Rees.

Find timetable information at Student Services Online.

The following courses can be included in your postgraduate Marine Science degree:

Course code Course title Semester offered Coordinator
BIOSCI 724 Marine Ecology
S1 Mary Sewell
BIOSCI 725 Ecological Physiology
S1 Tony Hickey
BIOSCI 727 Aquaculture
S2 Andrew Jeffs
BIOSCI 733 Molecular Ecology and Evolution
Not offered in 2023  
BIOSCI 735 Advanced Behavioural Ecology S1 Anne Gaskett
BIOSCI 738 Advanced Biological Data Analysis
S1 Charlotte Jones-Todd
BIOSCI 739 Dialogues in Biology S1 James Russell
BIOSCI 749 Microbiomes S2 Mike Taylor
BIOSCI 761 MSc Thesis Proposal
S1; S2 S1: Tony Hickey
S2: Alice Della Penna
CHEM 795 Research Methods in Chemistry S2 Christian Hartinger
EARTHSCI 720 Geochemistry of Our World
S1 Michael Rowe
ENVMGT 742 Social Dimensions of Global Environmental Change S1 Meg Parsons
ENVMGT 744 Resource Management S2 Karen Fisher
ENVMGT 746 Collaborative Environmental Management S1 Brad Coombes
ENVSCI 701 Research Practice in Environmental Science S1; S2 Kevin Simon
Melanie Kah
ENVSCI 705 Handling Environmental Data S2 George Perry
ENVSCI 711 Assessing Environmental Effects S2 Kevin Simon
ENVSCI 714 Environmental Pollution S1 Melanie Kah
FOODSCI 703 Food Processing S1 Kang Huang
FOODSCI 708 Advanced Food Science S2 David Mercadante
GEOG 746 Applied Coastal Geomorphology S1 Mark Dickson
GEOG 771 Spatial Analysis and Geocomputation S1 Katarzyna Siła-Nowicka
INDIGEN 711 Indigenous Environmental Politics S2  
LAWENVIR 710 International Environmental Law S1  
MĀORI 732 Rangatiratanga S1  

2024 field trips

More details about the field trips can be found in the Course Outline.

If you require further information, please reach out to the course coordinator.