Marine Mammals Course
Boost your biological sciences career with the Marine Mammals Course. Gain skills in affordable field methods, data mapping, and impact analyses to transform sightings and stranding records into strong, conservation-driven recommendations. This course equips you to conduct practical studies on whales, dolphins, and seals using open data and tools like QGIS.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
The Marine Mammals Course provides practical tools to design and conduct affordable studies on whales, dolphins, and seals. You will learn to identify human impact issues, choose coastal sites, utilise open datasets and citizen science, organise data in QGIS, perform basic stats, and develop ethical conservation advice.
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Develop skills
- Marine mammal data analysis: conduct effort-corrected rates and basic spatial trends.
- Low-cost field surveys: plan land-based and opportunistic marine mammal sampling.
- Impact-focused study design: create testable questions on ships, noise, and fisheries.
- Open-source mapping: apply QGIS and free layers to map sightings and risk zones.
- Conservation reporting: convert results into clear briefs and practical mitigation steps.
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