How to study marine biology at a school that doesn't offer it?

Snowball_City
Thu, 19 Jan 2017 01:49:41 +0000

My daughter is at a liberal arts college and is majoring in biology within a conservation track. Her advisor said to not specialize too early. A solid foundation in biology is fine. She has had to be very strategic in planning her internships.

What are you planning on doing for the summer. Program applications are underway now. What year are you in college? Would you want the information on programs that I hoarded up for my daughter?

For example: building upon your enviro science background, the limnology research station at University of Wisconsin hires a bunch of student workers. Skills built doing fresh water research will transport well to marine sciences. The application for this coming summer will open in Feb. Take a look at last year’s listings and see if any of those jobs look interesting. http://limnology.wisc.edu/Ugrad-Job-Main.htm My daughter had a job offer from them a couple of years ago…

But took this instead http://www.marinetech.org/internships/ Applications for that open in Feb as well. My daughter really likes hands on work, not lab work, and worked her butt off at this. Not for the lazy.

Both of those were paid. Last summer she took an unpaid internship taking care of penguins at a zoo. This was connected to an independent study class she took where she focussed on penguin conservation.

Sea Education Association has some great courses. http://www.sea.edu I know they have been trying to beef up their financial aid, especially for students who need a lot of it.

If you do some brainstorming I think you can find a route to creating some good opportunities.