These are required courses as part of the Zoo-Bot Quarter in Spring 2018.

The Zoology and Botany courses survey the groups of marine invertebrates, algae and plants represented in the San Juan Archipelago; natural history, adaptations, evolution, and taxonomy. Frequent local field trips to different habitats allow students to study organisms in their natural environments, and trips on the RV Centennial permit exploration of subtidal and open-water systems. Daily lectures are followed by detailed laboratory study of organisms. All students also perform organized outreach activities with local schools.

A 4-day camping field trip to the exposed rocky coast of Vancouver Island enables study of the organisms on wave-swept shores. Note: all students will need a passport or equivalent paperwork to allow travel into Canada. No textbooks are required for these courses.

For Marine Botany, we do not require a formal text, however we recommend this book as a mid-level text covering most of the subjects presented in the course:
Graham, L. E., James M. Graham, Lee W. Wilcox, and Martha E. Cook. Algae (Third Edition) 2016, ISBN 978-0-9863935-3-2. Only available as eBook here ($40.00) (Second edition is available in hardcopy but is substantially different.)

Marine Zoology will be taught by Dr. Megan Dethier from the University of Washington Department of Biology. Marine Botany will be taught by Dr. Thomas Mumford from the University of Washington Friday Harbor Laboratories.