<p>I’m doing Marine Bio at UCLA right now and plan to go to UC San Diego for graduate school. At UCLA I have to do a full quarter of field research in some random place (I believe the last two places were somewhere in California and the French Polynesia, so it’s extremely wide). But most people in my major want to do things like that full time and study things that just aren’t being funded right now. </p>
<p>You wanna research whales? Sorry but the research grant you applied for wants algae. That’s generally what marine biologists end up having to do. A very small amount of time is spent in the field. If you aren’t prepared to deal with things like that, I might recommend taking a general biology major and then specializing in graduate school.</p>