Marine Wildlife Conservation (BIOL3024)
Information valid for Semester 2, 2025
Course level
Undergraduate
Faculty
Schools
School of the Environment, Veterinary Science School
Units
2
Duration
One Semester
Attendance mode
In Person
Class hours
Lecture 2 Hours/ Week
Workshop 2 Hours/ Week
Fieldwork 6 Hours/ Semester
2L, 2W, 6F
Prerequisite
BIOL2204
Recommended prerequisite
MARS1001 and MARS2001
Assessment methods
Project report
Practical skills
Quiz
Course enquiries
Doctor Janet Lanyon (Semester 2, Regular, St Lucia, In person)
Dr Janet Lanyon (j.lanyon@uq.edu.au)
Study Abroad
This course is pre-approved for Study Abroad and Exchange students.
Current course offerings
Course offerings | Location | Mode | Course Profile |
Semester 2, 2025 (28/07/2025 - 22/11/2025) | St Lucia | In Person | Profile unavailable |
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Course description
Marine wildlife (marine mammals, reptiles, sharks and rays) is threatened by extinction and faces compounding pressures from human activities including over-exploitation, pollution, coastal development and climate change. There is an urgent need to understand and manage these threats. In this course, you will examine the major conservation issues facing threatened marine wildlife globally with a particular focus on Australia. You will learn how marine wildlife research, management and conservation is conducted using ecological, population and life history data, and how threats may be managed. Teaching will be conducted through a series of lectures, on-line SDL modules, specialist workshops with industry partners and researchers, field exercises and small group projects undertaken in one of the most diverse marine wildlife locations in Australia, the subtropical waters of the Moreton Bay region. This course will improve graduate employability through a work-integrated learning approach in which you will develop key field skills. These will include wildlife survey techniques including species ID, land-based tracking, aerial photogrammetry and acoustics, boat-based data collection, data analysis and wildlife necropsy.
Archived offerings
Course offerings | Location | Mode | Course Profile |
Semester 2, 2024 (22/07/2024 - 18/11/2024) | St Lucia | In Person | Course Profile |
Semester 2, 2023 (24/07/2023 - 18/11/2023) | St Lucia | In Person | Course Profile |
Semester 2, 2022 (25/07/2022 - 19/11/2022) | St Lucia | Internal | Course Profile |