Marine Mammals Course
Advance your biological sciences career with the Marine Mammals Course. Learn low-cost field methods, data mapping, and impact analyses to turn sightings and stranding records into robust, conservation-focused recommendations.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
certificate valid in your country
What will I learn?
The Marine Mammals Course gives you practical tools to design and run focused, low-cost studies on whales, dolphins, and seals. Learn to define human-impact questions, select coastal study areas, use open datasets and citizen-science records, organize and map data in QGIS, run basic statistical analyses, and translate results into ethical, evidence-based conservation and monitoring recommendations.
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Develop skills
- Marine mammal data analysis: run 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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