Workshops and Courses
Shoals Marine Laboratory, summer 2010 marine courses & research opportunities.
Friday Harbor Laboratories, Field Courses
Friday Harbor Laboratories (FHL), part of the University of Washington, offers coursework for undergraduates, post-baccalaureates and graduate students. Spring and autumn sessions run a full academic quarter (10-11 weeks) with courses and research apprenticeships targeted to undergraduates and post-baccalaureates. In summer FHL offers six graduate-level courses plus one undergraduate-level course. Summer courses run 5 weeks in one of two summer sessions.
Oregon Institute of Marine Biology: OIMB offers a variety of courses during the summer term. In addition to the eight week term, several two week and weekend workshops are available as well. Courses are open to qualified students from all institutions as well as those interested in continuing education. Courses meet for at least seven hours a day and are designed for upper-division biology majors, environmental studies/science majors, and graduate students in these disciplines.
Bamfield Marine Science Centre, Field Courses
2010 courses include Invertebrate Biology, Scientific Diving, Scientific Filmmaking, Life History Strategies of Marine Invertebrates.
The White Sea Biological station (WSBS) of the Moscow State University offers a 2.5 week long intensive summer course in embryology of marine invertebrates.
Instructors: Nataliya Budaeva(1), Igor Kosevitch(2) and Maria Semenova(3)
Invited lecturers: Svetlana Maslakova(4), George von Dassow(4), Stefano Piraino(5)
1 Laboratory of Ocean Benthic Fauna, P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
2 Dept. of Invertebrate Zoology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
3 Dept. of Embryology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
4 Oregon Institute of Marine Biology, University of Oregon, USA
5 Laboratory of Zoology and Marine Biology, University of Salento, Italy
Location: The White Sea Biological Station is located on the wild and scenic coast of Kandalaksha Bay of the White Sea (66 34′ N, 33 08′ E). It is a remote and isolated University settlement accessible only by boat from the nearest village Poyakonda. Poyakonda is connected to major cities by train: 21 hours from St. Petersburg, and 36 hours from Moscow.
Course description: This course will provide extensive laboratory experience observing embryonic and larval development in a large diversity of marine invertebrates. Students will participate in several field trips to collect adult animals, and learn to obtain gametes, fertilize eggs, and maintain live cultures of marine embryos and larvae in the laboratory. Lectures will examine development in major invertebrate phyla in an evolutionary context. Different types of cleavage, gastrulation, larval morphology and metamorphosis will be discussed. Students are expected to observe as many different developmental stages of various invertebrates as possible, and to maintain a notebook of drawings.
Please visit http://wsbs-msu.ru/doc/index.php?ID=68 for detailed descriptions of the application process and course fees.
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Training in Tropical Taxonomy for grad students and professionals, including short-courses on sponges, gorgonians, and tunicates.