Ocean Science and Marine Biodiversity

Explore Ocean Biodiversity and Learn How To Protect It

 

The ocean is home to a fascinating variety of ecosystems, from tide pools along the shore to the depths of the middle Pacific. Dive below the surface to explore marine biodiversity and to learn how people can help protect it.

Students will explore a variety of ecosystems, including California’s own kelp forests, where sea lions, dolphins and whales roam. They will examine how human activities are changing these ecosystems and how marine creatures cope with the changes. We will take a look at the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to learn how plastics move around our oceans. The class will also look at how the work of marine biologists can help protect the diversity of sea life. Activities will include experiments, dissection of ocean animals and creation of hand-crafted marine creatures from recycled plastics and trash.

What You Will Learn

Get an introduction to marine biodiversity and to learn how people can help protect it.

• Learn about different marine ecosystems and how they function independently and together.
• Explore how living things in ocean habitats cope with changes in pressure, density and temperature.
• Look at how human activities are affecting these ecosystems.
• See how the work of research scientists can help protect ocean biodiversity.
• Dissect animals to get a sense of how specialized ocean life is.
• Create marine creatures from recycled plastics and trash.

Return to the Sally Ride Science Junior Academy website here.

Note: Upon successful enrollment of a section, students will receive a confirmation email from our Student Services team. This email will include a link to an authorization form that is required to be completed within 72-hours of enrollment. 

In response to COVID-19 health guidelines, we have restructured our in-person Junior Academy workshops as online courses. Contact us at srs@ucsd.edu if you have questions.
 

Course Number: MARI-90037
Credit: 1.50 unit(s)

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7/18/2022 - 7/22/2022

$175

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• SECTION ID:

  164974

• CLASS TYPE:

  Synchronous web-based class meetings that are scheduled to meet online at published times (time/date).

• INSTRUCTOR:
  

  Friet, Lorrie, MFA Design - University Mississippi BFA - Oklahoma State University

  Lorrie Blackard Friet is an educator specializing in STEAM content creation. Recently she developed virtual field trips for the San Diego Unified and Los Angeles Unified school districts. Passionate about the ocean, she is the senior instructor at the San Diego Floating Lab, which explores the wonders of the ocean with San Diego County students and visitors from Arizona, Colorado and Mexico. She is also a board member of Spiral Pacific, a nonprofit dedicated to global marine conservation. She is a practicing artist with paintings in collections worldwide and is the featured artist at Tower 23 Hotel in San Diego. Each spring Friet and fifth-grade students add to the mural surrounding the joint-use field at Pacific Beach Elementary School. This mural will be 1,000 feet long when complete...Read More

• TEXTBOOKS:

  No textbook required.

• POLICIES:

  1st meeting mandatory.
  Early enrollment advised.
  No UCSD parking permit required.
  No visitors permitted.
  Pre-enrollment required.
  No refunds after: 7/11/2022.
  

• NOTE:

  This is a HIGH SCHOOL level course. Instructor will email student with Zoom information 24-hours in advance of start date. Please note this email will go to the student email on file, and not the parent email. The course runs the first two hours with an optional office hour the last hour. Supply list:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AwsW47f7MZ3vUv8C7hXqHPHLoNSW_b7s/edit#gid=1925047896

DATE	DAY	START	END	LOCATION
7/18/2022	Mon	1:00 p.m.	4:00 p.m.
7/19/2022	Tue	1:00 p.m.	4:00 p.m.
7/20/2022	Wed	1:00 p.m.	4:00 p.m.
7/21/2022	Thu	1:00 p.m.	4:00 p.m.
7/22/2022	Fri	1:00 p.m.	4:00 p.m.