Marine Mammals Course
Boost your biological sciences career through the Marine Mammals Course. Master affordable field techniques, data mapping with QGIS, and impact analyses to transform whale, dolphin, and seal sighting and stranding data into strong, conservation-driven recommendations that support ethical monitoring and protection efforts in coastal areas.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
This Marine Mammals Course equips you with practical, budget-friendly tools to design and conduct targeted studies on whales, dolphins, and seals. You will learn to formulate questions about human impacts, choose coastal sites, leverage open datasets and citizen science, organize data in QGIS, perform basic stats, and create evidence-based conservation advice.
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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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