Description: Lecture, five hours; fieldwork, 15 hours. Enforced requisites: courses 109, 109L, Chemistry 14A, 14B, 14BL (or 20A, 20B, 20L), Life Sciences 1, Physics 6A, Statistics 13. Recommended: Life Sciences 2, 3, 4. Land-sea interface is one of most biologically rich, yet challenging habitats on Earth. Organisms must contend with wide range of environmental conditions, including extreme variations in temperature, oxygen, pH, ultraviolet radiation, osmotic stress, and water availability. These habitats are among best natural laboratories for investigating patterns and processes of organism-environment interactions. Basic training in characterization of physical and chemical environmental features to establish basic tenets of organismal performance, as well as population and community dynamics in response to extreme environmental challenges. Foraging of critical new linkages between chemistry, physics, and biology through lecture, laboratory, and field investigations. Offered as part of Marine Biology Quarter. Letter grading.

Units: 4.0