Marine Mammals Course
Boost your biological sciences career through 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 that support wildlife protection efforts.

flexible workload from 4 to 360h
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
The Marine Mammals Course equips you with 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 simple statistical tests, and create ethical conservation advice based on evidence.
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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: develop 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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