Focusing on marine pollution, invasive species, and water quality prepares students for positions with government agencies or private firms involved in marine and coastal water quality management, planning, regulation and monitoring. Students can focus on pollution of coastal wetland and/or watersheds or open ocean pollution through the choice of concentration and elective courses.
Websites
- Natural Resources Defense Council - Testing the Waters
- Oceanlink - Marine Pollution
- EPA - Pollution Control
- Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council
- EPA - for Students and Teachers
- International Maritime Organization - Marine Environment
- Regional Marine Pollution Emergency Response Centre for the Mediterranean Sea (REMPEC)
- NOAA - Coastal Services Center
- OSU - Institute for Water and Watersheds
- Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation's Division of Spill Prevention and Response
- Cook Inlet Regional Citizens' Advisory Council
- Prince William Sound Regional Citizens' Advisory Council
- California Department of Fish and Game's Office of Spill Prevention and Response
- Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ)
- Oregon State Marine Board
- Oregon State Marine Board, AIS
- Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
- Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, AIS
- Washington Department of Ecology's Spill Prevention, Preparedness, and Response Program
- Puget Sound Partnership
- Cooperative Institute for Coastal and Estuarine Environmental Technology (CICEET)
- Region 10 Regional Response Team and the Northwest Area Committee (RRT/NWAC)
- Coastal Response Research Center
Go to the Marine Resource Management Program page.