
Explore the ocean's vast marine biodiversity, primary producers like phytoplankton and algae, and the light-driven food webs that transfer energy through coastal to deep-sea trophic levels.
Explore the Baltic Sea's brackish, shallow, and slowly refreshed waters, the nutrient-driven algal blooms, hypoxia, and the impact of alien species on this fragile, low-biodiversity coast.
Explore marine biotechnology as a tool for discovering bioactive compounds, genes, and biomaterials from diverse marine resources for applications in pharmaceuticals, food, cosmetics, and bio energy.
This course aims to provide students with an understanding of marine biotechnology. The students will gain basic knowledge of the ocean at large, what drivers that are important in the oceans and which crucial functions influence the ocean production. The students will learn about the Baltic Sea in more detail, what makes the ocean a unique habitat and the challenges it is facing. The course introduces students to marine biotechnology and they will be provided with an overview of the marine resources that are important in this field. The students will be presented some interesting and important applications of marine biotechnology.