Marine Mammals Course
Advance your biological sciences career with the Marine Mammals Course. Master low-cost field methods, data mapping, and impact analyses to transform sightings and stranding records into robust, conservation-focused recommendations. This course equips you with practical skills for ethical wildlife studies using open data and citizen science.

4 to 360 hours flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
The Marine Mammals Course provides practical tools to design and conduct focused, low-cost studies on whales, dolphins, and seals. You will learn to define human-impact questions, select coastal study areas, utilise open datasets and citizen-science records, organise and map data in QGIS, perform basic statistical analyses, and translate findings into ethical, evidence-based conservation and monitoring recommendations.
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Develop skills
- Marine mammal data analysis: conduct effort-corrected rates and basic spatial trends.
- Low-cost field surveys: design land-based and opportunistic marine mammal sampling.
- Impact-focused study design: frame testable questions on ships, noise, and fisheries.
- Open-source mapping: use QGIS and free layers to map sightings and risk zones.
- Conservation reporting: turn results into clear briefs and practical mitigation steps.
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