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4 unusual facts about Marine Biology


Aquatic

Marine biology, the scientific study of organisms in the ocean or other marine or brackish bodies of water

Barium oxide

Barium oxide should not be released environmentally; it is harmful to aquatic organisms.

Laurence Madin

Laurence Madin is an American Marine biologist.

Swedish Fish

"Aqua Life" is a certain style of Swedish Fish candy in the shape of sea animals.


Dublin School

Courses include chemistry, biology, marine biology, algebra, pre-calculus, calculus, statistics, Spanish, French, Latin, Mandarin, world history, American history, economics and English, various AP courses, and various electives in each category.

Friday Harbor Laboratories

Friday Harbor Laboratories (also known as FHL), is a marine biology field station of the University of Washington, located in Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, Washington, USA.

Margaret Gatty

She became fascinated with marine biology, possibly on the advice of William Henry Harvey, who she had met while convalescing in Hastings in 1848.

Septum

Septum (marine biology): walls between each chamber, or siphuncle, in shells of nautiloids, ammonites, and belemnites; i.e. cephalopods that retain an external shell.

Todd C. Stiles

Captain Stiles holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Marine Biology from Roger Williams University.


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Adolf Portmann

Born in Basel, Switzerland, he studied zoology at the University of Basel and worked later in Geneva, Munich, Paris and Berlin, but mainly in marine biology laboratories in France (Banyuls-sur-Mer, Roscoff, Villefranche-sur-Mer) and Helgoland.

Dawn Whyatt Frith

Dawn obtained her PhD, in littoral zone marine biology on A study of the biology of animals living on the littoral sponges with special reference to Halicondria panicea (Pallas), at London University and lectured in zoology before meeting Clifford Brodie Frith on Aldabra Atoll, Indian Ocean where she was a visiting scientist studying insects and he a staff scientist studying birds.

James B. McClintock

In 1998, the U.S. Geographic Board named McClintock Point on the north side of New Harbor, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, in recognition of his contributions to Antarctic marine biology.

Kerckhoff Marine Laboratory

Current investigators include members of the Eric Davidson lab working on various marine biology related projects.

Marine biology dredge

The first marine biology dredge was designed by Otto Friedrich Müller and in 1830 the results of two dredging expeditions undertaken by Henri Milne-Edwards and his friend Jean Victoire Audouin during 1826 and 1828 in the neighbourhood of Granville were published.

Peter Crawford

Crawford studied Zoology and Marine Biology at the University of Exeter in England and made further studies in Anthropology at the University of Mainz in Germany.

Toshiji Fukuda

He has been working with the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1991 and is an honorary member of the Academy's Far East branch of the Institute of Marine Biology.

Via Krupp

Built between 1900 and 1902, ostensibly Via Krupp was a connection for Krupp between his luxury hotel, Grand Hotel Quisisana, and Marina Piccola, where his marine biology research vessel lay at anchor.