1. Marine Biology Created by: Stephanie Soomar

2. What is Marine Biology?
Marine biology is a diverse subject mixing functional biology and ecology.
Functional biology: is the study of how an organism carries out basic functions such as:
Reproduction
Locomotion
Feeding
Cellular and biochemical processes related to digestion, respiration, and metabolism
Ecology: is the study of the interaction of organisms with their physical and biological environments and how these interactions determine the distribution and abundance of the organisms.

3. Why Study It?? Life may have origins in the sea. Food: Lobsters Crabs
Fish
Shark
Octopus

4. Medicine: alginates, vaccines, essential oils, proteins, etc.
The cure for cancer may very well lie within sharks or other marine life!

5. Raw materials:
Iron
Sulfer
Oil
Salt (more later)
Etc.

6. Discovery of ancient artifacts
Commercial Diver Repairing Damaged Structure

7. It’s not ALL good!
Some marine life destroys, harms, or in other ways is detrimental to humans.
However, the converse is also true…

8. Portuguese Man-O-War

9. Who Can Be a Marine Biologist?
Anyone!
It’s really basic science
applied to the sea, not the
sea applied to science.
Nearly ALL disciplines are represented in Marine Science (Biology)

10. Archeaology
Biology
Botany
Chemistry
Geology
Ichthyology
Oceanography
Physiology
Physics
Seismology
Medicine
Welding
Diving
Research
Education
Recreation
The list goes on and on…

11. Geologists: focus on questions such as the composition of inner Earth, the mobility of the crust, the characteristics of seafloor sediments, and the history of Earth’s ocean, continents, and climate.
Physical oceanographers: study and observe wave dynamics, currents, and ocean-atmosphere interaction.
Chemical oceanographers: study the ocean’s dissolved solids and gases and their relationships to geology and biology of the ocean as a whole.

12. Climate specialists: investigate the ocean’s role in Earth’s changing climate.
Marine engineers: design and build oil platforms, ships, harbors, and other structures that enable us to use the ocean wisely.
Marine biologists: work with the nature and distribution of marine organisms, the impact of oceanic and atmospheric pollutants on the organisms, the isolation of disease-fighting drugs from marine species, and the yields of fisheries.