Dean’s date paper is in…
Early :D Plus it was a short story, so I can’t really complain like everyone else.
Okay, so I know this has nothing to do with this, but I wanted to reblog you and answer your question on UCs and CSUs without the character limit. Haha.
Saw your question on Mad as a Marine Biologist’s site and I figured I would take a stab. Are you looking to go for Grad School? Or just pursuing an undergraduate degree? There are several UCs and many more CSUs.
I recently graduated from CSU Monterey Bay in Seaside, Ca (Central Ca). The marine ecology program there is small but top notch. If you are interested in the physical side of things, the seafloor mapping lab is great, and very applied science. There is also the IfAME lab that is all about using ROV’s to characterize the deep sea, with focuses in assessing fishing stocks and community foraging (but that’s not all the do!). The school is small and new and the comes with it’s own problems, especially with transferring from another school, as they feel that their classes are just “too different” for anything to transfer. The Administration is frustrating at times, and there isn’t much community. But you’re in a beautiful place with lots of recreational opportunities and CSUMB is also close to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, allowing a lot of opportunity to get your foot in the door in the Interpertive/Husbandry side of science if you’re interested and motivated.
UC Santa Cruz has a top notch marine bio program, and if your going for grad school, Moss Landing Marine Labs (run by CSUMB, San Jose State, and three other schools) is a great, small graduate program with top notch professors and research facilities. I have heard good things about San Fransisco State (anything with a state after it is in the CSU system) has the Tibouron Shark Center for research on sharks in the bay.
I know that Humboldt State has a great wildlife studies program and most likely offers a Marine Bio focused program in an awesomely wooded place and at a school that has a pretty tight campus from what I have heard.
There are a bunch of private schools too, but I don’t know anything about them. Haha. I am a big proponent of visiting and talking to professors you want to work with and visit the program you want to get into. You’ll get a good feel if the school is right for you and if you’re going to get along with your professors (which is a bigger deal than most people think).
Anyway, that’s my 2 cents. Ask me questions! Like I said, I spent 4.53 years in the CSU system At CSU Monterey Bay, so I know that one the best! Haha.
