MASTER OF SCIENCE

The Coastal Marine and Wetland Studies graduate program encompasses a wide range of modern scientific disciplines relevant to the coastal zone. The program emphasizes current knowledge about coastal marine, estuarine, watershed, and freshwater wetland environments, including the biology and ecology of marine and freshwater flora and fauna, geological and physical processes in the coastal zone, marine and freshwater environmental chemistry, and the ethical management of coastal and wetland resources. The thesis requirement calls for students to conduct and report on their original research..