Island and Coral Reef Resilience and Ecosystem Services

Topics

• 1. To provide fundamentals of island and reef biology, geology, marine ecology and their inter-connectedness, as well as the physical and biological forces shaping and maintaining these ecosystems. 2. To experience in the field the different island habitats and explore the ecosystem services provided by island habitats to local peoples and beyond. 3. To interact directly with local people to learn about local perspectives on the value of these systems.
• 1. Students will be able to summarize the fundamentals of Sustainability Science in the context of oceanography, geoscience, genetics, ecology, anthropology, economics, statistics and data science. 2. Students will be able to demonstrate a quantitative and qualitative understanding of interactions among individual organisms and between species and their biotic and abiotic environment. 3. Students will be able to design experiments to understand the importance and inter-connectedness of biological and physical forces that shape and maintain island ecosystems. 4. Students will be able to interpret the value of ecosystem services that islands provide. 5. Students will be able to articulate the perspective of local people on the value of island ecosystems based on their first hand experiences. 6. Students will be able to investigate and communicate the connections between the biological and social sciences and humanities as they affect sustainable development.

Official catalogue course objectives and student learning outcomes