Marine Biology And Zoology

Highlights

Ideal location to study Marine Biology and Zoology. Access to rocky shores, sand dunes, beaches, salt marshes, intertidal sediments, estuaries, mountains, woods, farmland, marine and freshwater habitats. Outstanding facilities include our £3.5m research ship, work boats, algal culture unit, specialised labs, herpetarium, small mammal unit, study farm, botanic garden, pigeon loft, and natural history museum.

World-leading research. Staff expertise spans tidal renewable energy, marine resource management, fisheries science, biology, ecology, psychology, geography, land systems science, policy, and more. Extensive fieldwork with boat-based, land and lab-based analysis in and around North Wales.

Exciting opportunities for international field course to study the North American Atlantic coast ecology. Active student community. Socials, excursions and talks from Endeavour, our Ocean Sciences Society, and ZooSoc, the Herpetological, Birdwatching and Entomology societies.

You can also learn to surf or dive.

Course overview

Marine Biology and Zoology offers insight into the huge diversity, behaviour, biology and evolution of animal life and the planet’s various ecosystems, from the mountains to tropical coral reefs and deep sea trenches. Studying the interaction between animals and their environments, you can choose to focus on the evolutionary history of sharks, fish biology, invertebrates or animal survival strategies. Situated in close proximity to the mountains of Eryri (Snowdonia) within a few metres of the sea, Bangor University offers easy access to a range of diverse habitat types and animals.

Ideal for fieldwork, you’ll undertake experiments and analysis in estuaries, on the seashore, at sea, on land, and in the lab. With a dedicated School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University is one of the largest and oldest university centres in Britain for teaching and research in marine sciences. Joined by expertise in the School of Natural Sciences, you’ll be taught by staff involved in cutting-edge research into climate change and conservation, with projects ranging from frozen polar seas to rainforests, savannahs and beyond.

Our natural and ocean sciences facilities are second to none. These include our own 35 metre research vessel, the Prince Madog, several smaller work boats, an algal culture unit, specialised nutrition, microbiological, chemical and environmental labs, environmentally controlled rooms, imaging facilities, and extensive analytical equipment. When it comes to marine animals, we benefit from having shellfish beds, seal haul-out sites and dolphin pods nearby, as well as our own tropical and temperate marine and freshwater aquaria.

Our onsite herpetariaum features reptiles, rodents and insects. Treborth Botanic Garden has a pigeon loft for bird cognition, physiology, and biomechanics research, and you can find Alpaca, sheep and bee hives on the farm at Henfaes Research Centre. Bangor University also has its own natural history museum with diverse vertebrate and invertebrate specimens, including marine fossils.

The University is home to the Environment Centre for Wales, a partnership with the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and British Trust for Ornithology Wales. Marine Centre Wales was established to promote discourse and research into aquaculture, coastal water quality, offshore renewable energy, fisheries, flood risk, marine data, and climate change. Elsewhere in Bangor, you’ll find regional offices of NRW, Dŵr Cymru/Welsh Water, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and North Wales Wildlife Trust (and ).

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Placement year

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