Marine Biology
College or University: Fairleigh Dickinson University
Type of degree: B.S.
Brief overview of program: The marine biology curriculum fulfills basic requirements for admission into graduate and professional schools. It also may serve as a terminal degree, with which to enter the job market. The program includes a laboratory field experience, currently available at FDU’s field station in Samana, Dominican Republic. At this station, students have a full semester of warm-water Caribbean field experience. The School of Natural Sciences’ semester at Samana contains 15 credits of Marine Biology courses with a research project and an option of taking one online course (e.g., University Core) for a total of 18 credits. Each of the marine biology courses consists of a lecture and a field-based component, the field component is supported by laboratory studies. Fieldwork study sites will include reefs, mangroves, sea grass beds and salt marshes. To participate in any field experience, a student must have earned a 2.25 in biology course work and be in good academic standing. Further information can be obtained form the school’s director.
Website: Click here for program website
Number of students enrolled in 2007: 5 Where do most of the students go upon graduating or leaving the program?
Continue Education: 33% | Enter Workforce: 33% | Do not know: 33%
For the students that enter the workforce, what are the most common occupations that they pursue with this degree or certificate? Work the Meadowlands Environmental Research Insitute (MERI) and other environmental consulting firms.
Description of Facilities: The Hackensack River flows through the campus giving students an opportunity to study organisms in freshwater environments north of the campus, estuarine environments on campus, and marine environments south of the campus. The University owns two 11-foot vessels for study in the water, and a monitoring station off the footbridge that connects the Teaneck and Hackensack sides of the campus.
Marine organisms can also be studied at FDU's Samana marine biology facility in the Dominican Republic. This field station has a classroom that is connected to a wet lab that has both in-door and an out-door components.
Program Faculty: Alice Benzecry, Ph.D., Aquatic vegetation
Irwin Isquith, Ph.D., Aquatic ecology, protozoology
Joseph Labriola, M.S., Wetlands
Richard Lo Pinto, Ph.D., Eco-toxicology of aquatic organisms
Marion McClary, Jr., Ph.D., Behavioral and physiological ecology of aquatic animals
Program Point of Contact: Marion McClary, Jr., Ph.D.
Email: marion_mcclary@fdu.edu Department: School of Natural Sciences Institution address: 1000 River Road H-DH4-03
Teaneck,NJ 07666 Phone: 201-692-2606
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