Course Dates
August 11, 2025 to August 18, 2025
Prerequisites
Open to any incoming, first-year ("pre-freshmen") University of New Hampshire student, especially but not exclusively for UNH students in the Marine/Estuarine/Freshwater Biology, General Biology, Zoology, and related majors.
Please Note
This course is administered through UNH's Department of Biological Sciences. Prospective Marine Immersion students should click here to reference the Marine Immersion website for information about tuition, fees and financial support for this program.
Course Description
An intensive 2-credit course for incoming freshmen, surveying a range of marine-related fields (with emphasis on biology and ecology), research approaches, and organisms. Marine Immersion will introduce students to the breadth, excitement and challenges of marine science through lectures, demonstrations, and field experience offered by a cohort of UNH faculty and through short research projects carried out at the Shoals Marine Laboratory on Appledore Island.
Faculty
Dr. Jessica Bolker
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of New Hampshire
Philosophy of science, particularly epistemological questions around the use of models, and other topics connected to evolutionary developmental biology. Areas of particular interest include model choice, criteria, and implications; homology; modularity; and the role of fiction in the teaching and practice of science.
Dr. Jason Goldstein
Research Director, Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve
Dr. Jason Goldstein leads the Wells Reserve research program. He is also an assistant professor at York County Community College and affiliate faculty at the University of New Hampshire School of Marine Science and Ocean Engineering.
Jason holds a Ph.D. from the University of New Hampshire, an M.S. in Marine Ecology from Old Dominion University, and an undergraduate degree from the University of Massachusetts. In addition to being a one-time Graduate Research Fellow at the Great Bay Reserve, he was a Fulbright Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Haifa, Israel.