Marine Science and Policy
Beaufort Signature Travel Courses
The Marine Laboratory seeks to provide national and international leadership in undergraduate marine science education. To contribute to this goal, Marine Lab faculty offer a new series of ‘Beaufort Signature’ courses in the Fall and Spring that include extended field trips to areas of particular interest to undergraduate, professional, and doctoral scholars of marine science and conservation.
Fall Travel Courses:
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Tropical Marine Ecology > (Panama; H Diaz)
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Marine Ecology of the Pacific > (California; L Crowder)
- Marine Studies in Brittany >(Brittany, France; Van Dover)
for complete listing of fall courses, click here >
Spring Travel Courses:
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The Biology and Ecology of Sea Turtless > (Trinidad; S Eckert)
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Marine Conservation Biology > (Hawaii; A Read)
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Sojourn in Singapore: Tropical Urban Ecology > (Singapore; D Rittschof)
for complete listing of spring courses, click here >
The educational strategy of Beaufort courses has always been linked to experiential learning, where students live beside the marine environment that they study and where insights are often generated by the student rather than conveyed by the instructor. Beaufort Signatures extend the experiential approach to allow students to develop new knowledge and skills elsewhere in the US or abroad. Course field trips are immersive and take students out of their comfort zone and place them in new and often surprising environments. They then begin to relate one set of observations with another, to discover for themselves similarities, contrasts, and creative solutions to marine science and conservation issues.