really make use of our natural environments in our teaching. So students

come here and they can swim with whales they can fly drones they can do debris

surveys on our beaches. So when you enroll in marine science one of the

first things you can do is come and have a look at the Marine Science Centre and

the facilities where we're doing groundbreaking research. In fact our

research is so good that the Australian Government has given it the highest

ranking possible. Our marine and coastal environments matter unfortunately

they're experiencing a range of different threats from a whole variety

of sources. So it's a really good time for students to get involved and study

marine science.

As a student at SCU you'll get the opportunity to be

involved with the latest technologies such as drones. SCU has been using drones

to monitor whales sharks and dolphins and we've been actively involved in

particularly things like monitoring white sharks in the in shore areas which is

really exciting. Students who join us will have the opportunity to put their

hands up to contribute to our research looking at swimming with whales this new

ecotourism opportunity provides an amazing chance to get up close with

these wonderful animals but our job as researchers is to make sure that the

whales are minimally impacted by this activity. We do a wide range of research

we look at the effects of climate change on corals on seaweeds on invertebrates

we also look at aquaculture and the aquaculture is really important what

we're looking at is ways to feed growing population using marine resources.

The world population is increasing and this means that we have to find more

sustainable resources and we also have to look after the marine environment.

Because of this there's a great range of careers that are opening up for marine

scientists things like working in government working in aquaculture and

working in the industry.