Research in marine biology is incredibly important
because we are at a time where things are starting to change quite rapidly in terms of water quality,
what we're seeing in our coral reefs, extensive bleaching.
We're at that point now that if we don't do something it's going to become irreversible.
I think that learning how our seas and our coastlines interact with each other
will be so important to base our future energy industries and aquaculture industries as well.
That is the way forward for Australia and worldwide companies to get into.
My name is Daniel and i'm studying marine biology at Deakin University.
I chose Deakin to study because the facilities are state-of-the-art their lecturers are above the rest.
The labs are really well equipped with new technology.
If you do study marine biology at Geelong Waurn Ponds you also get access to the Queenscliff facilities.
The relationship between the Waurn Ponds Campus and Queenscliff is that Waurn Ponds
is for your text book learning, Queenscliff is for your hands-on learning.
The practical experience within the course is so important,
its always good to know what we're dealing with so we always pick up invertebrates and we handle them with care.
We love to be in the course and pick up live specimens for all our assignments
and Queenscliff allows us to work with these live specimens because we have the sea water available.
Queenscliff is perfect for marine biology because we're right on Swan Bay,
Swan Bay on its best day you'll see the Banjo Sharks out there, you'll see plenty of crabs.
The staff go out on dives for us and they pick up live specimens so they'll pick up molluscs,
they'll pick up crustaceans, they'll pick up as much as they can to bring it into the classroom.
Then we have live specimens to look at and analyse for our classes.
You get to recognise how they feed, how they move... as they are in the wild and learning them in great detail.
I enjoy the facilities because it really opens up the classroom,
it allows us to all speak together and have a really cooperative lecture
and love the laboratories as well well because the supervisors always have
a high view of you so there is always help around
and they are all pretty passionate about marine biology
they are all divers, fishermen, they're all in the industry so it's
it's perfect to really get to know everyone.
The great thing about Deakin is that our lecturers present opportunities to us so regularly
and they care about how you look in terms of employability
and they want to make sure that you can guarantee yourself work in the future.
Ultimately for a career I would like to specialise in cetaceans
and being able to study specifically, Orcas.
I think i'm most looking forward to doing Honours.
Future study is definitely in my future and Deakin will provide that for me.
