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BI25F2: COASTAL BIODIVERSITY (2024-2025)

Last modified: 30 Jul 2024 10:46


Course Overview

This is a residential field course that uses the University of Aberdeen Lighthouse Field Station up in Cromarty to introduce a range of terrestrial, coastal and marine habitats, and the techniques that are being used to study and manage the diverse species in these ecosystems.

The field course provides an insight into how scientific research and long-term monitoring underpins our understanding and management of biodiversity, and the different organisations responsible for stewardship and conservation across the UK. The course explores how natural and anthropogenic environmental change can influence different coastal ecosystems, and the challenges of managing those ecosystems where there are a range of practitioners, stake-holders and end-users with different and potential conflicting priorities.

Importantly, the course provides “real world” experience of ecological fieldwork, with a focus on how to design, plan and safely execute monitoring programmes for a range of different species and habitats.

Dates for 2024/2025 are 18/05/2025 to 23/05/2025

 

Course Details

Study Type Undergraduate Level 2
Term Second Term Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Professor S.B. Piertney
  • Dr A Douglas

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Either Programme Level 2 or Programme Level 3
  • One of BSc Biology or BSc Conservation Biology or BSc Zoology or BSc Marine Biology or BSc Animal Behaviour or BSc Biological Sciences (Honours) or BSc Ecology

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

Are there a limited number of places available?

Yes

One or more of these courses have a limited number of places. Priority access will be given to students for whom this course is compulsory. Please refer to the Frequently Asked Questions for more details on this process.


Course Description

The course involves a number of individual activities that provide training in the identification and monitoring of marine invertebrates, marine mammals, terrestrial small mammals, bats and seabirds. Fieldwork includes time spent on different marine habitats and at sea and includes a range of formative, summative, qualitative and quantitative exercises carried out either independently or as part of a team. 

 

Associated Costs

DescriptionValue
Associated Cost260.0000

Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

Field notebook

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 60
Assessment Weeks Feedback Weeks

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Feedback

There is frequent feedback during the course and also specific feedback provided on written work.

Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
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Contribution to course

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 10
Assessment Weeks Feedback Weeks

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Feedback

There is frequent feedback during the course and also specific feedback provided on written work.

Learning Outcomes
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Group activity

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 30
Assessment Weeks Feedback Weeks

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Feedback

There is frequent feedback during the course and also specific feedback provided on written work.

Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
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Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ProceduralApplyto develop skills for assessing species, community and ecosystem identification and characterisation
ConceptualUnderstand• Understand the range of different approaches that can be used to monitor and measure biodiversity in marine, coastal and terrestrial habitats
ConceptualApplyRecognise the roles of the different organisations responsible for the management and conservation of different habitats and species around Scotland
ProceduralApplyto develop observational and recording skills for organisms in a variety of coastal habitats

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