Educational guide 2023_24
Facultade de Ciencias do Mar
Grado en Ciencias del Mar
 Subjects
  Biological oceanography I
   Methodologies
Methodologies   ::  Teaching methodology guide
  Description
Seminars They will divide the groups in subgroups of 3-4 people. Each subgroup will prepare a work to choose between the subjects offered by the professor at the beginning of the
course. Each student will have to involve clearly in all or some of the facets of the work. The works will be directed during the destined hours to the seminars. The oral exhibition will have a length of 20 minutes for the oral presentation and 5 minutes for the round of questions of the professor and of the rest of students. The presentation will come accompanied
by an archive in computer support (PDF) that will send to the professor in dates fixed previously to the presentation.
Laboratory practical With the samples taken during the field trip to the sea, the students will learn the separation, identification and headcounts of pertaining organisms to distinct groups of the benthos. With the table of data obtained will work the statistical section from univariate analysis, bivariate and multivariate.
Studies excursion They will conduct in the subject two field trips:
1) Sail along the the estuary of Vigo in the ship Mytilus, for the collecting benthic samples with quantitative dredges (Van-Veen).

2) Field trip to Aguiño (Ribeira, A Coruña)
Lecturing They will present and they will argue theoretical contents that they will be evaluated in a final examination.
Mentored work The works of investigation will be driving in group through the seminars. The students that belong to the same group will have to assist to same group of seminar.
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