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My high school was said to be among the first in the country to offer the class which I took as an elective. It had different science courses mixed in such as biology, geology and chemistry. We also had a field trip out to the ocean.
Essentially the same thing as Marine Biology, and, yes, our high school offers it. My daughter doubled up on science her senior year and took MB along with AP Physics. She enjoyed it very much.
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My high school was said to be among the first in the country to offer the class which I took as an elective. It had different science courses mixed in such as biology, geology and chemistry. We also had a field trip out to the ocean.
Overall a pleasant experience. How about you?
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Marine science themed high schools have been in existence for over 40 years. So its highly doubtful that your high school was the first to teach oceanography as a class.
And yes as an oceanographer I have studied oceanography, from high school right through grad school.
Essentially the same thing as Marine Biology, and, yes, our high school offers it. My daughter doubled up on science her senior year and took MB along with AP Physics. She enjoyed it very much.
Oceanography is no more similar to marine biology is than biology is to chemistry.
Oceanography is multidisciplinary, utilizing all of the other sciences to study waves, tides, currents, plate tectonics, primary productivity and so on.
Marine biology is the study of living organism in the ocean.
I sort of heard my daughter's voice in my head. She is also an oceanographer, and gets actually miffed about it.
My degrees are in biological oceanography, which even further muddies the waters, but hers are physical oceanography, and she is always asked how much she likes training dolphins when she teaches the undergrad intro classes.
But if I had it to do over again, I would actual do NOAA corp. Very few people know about it, but it is the seventh uniformed service in the US, and they do some amazing stuff.
Took oceanography in my undergraduate studies, served a hitch in the Navy, and am a life-long sailor, (cruising sailboats). All this to say that I've had a love affair with the ocean my whole life. If I hadn't followed in my father's footsteps and spent my whole career with NASA, I would have been an oceanographer. Sorta makes me wish reincarnation was for real.
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