EDUCATION
Master’s students lead marine project Carrying out a marine project from start to finish and planning and implementing an expedition with the Skagerak research vessel has been a challenge for master’s students in the course Marine Project – From Idea to Action. ‘This masters course is different from previous courses I attended at the University of Gothenburg and more focused on leveraging our knowledge and ability to work independently’, says Fredrik Ryderheim, one of the 18 master’s students taking the course.
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t’s the final seminar and day of the presentation. Master’s students at the 15-credit course is gathered in a classroom at the Earth Sciences Centre, facing each other and instructor David Turner, talk about results and experiences from the marine project they designed and implemented. Before the final part of the course, the students were divided into three groups. Each group has been out with Skagerak examining the condition of Byfjorden and Havstensfjorden.
WITH THE AID of graphics and pictures, group
after group reports on the methods and results from test samplings they had prepared in advance and then performed in Byfjor-
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den and Havstensfjorden during one day in October. A steady stream of questions and answers in the classroom. All the students take part in the discussion of structures, methods and ways of evaluating the results. ‘The master’s students have planned their projects themselves’, says David Turner, professor of marine chemistry. ‘Each group has had use of Skagerak during a full day and has taken about 50 water samples in Byfjorden and Havstensfjorden. They told the captain where he should go and where water samples were to be taken.’ AN ACCOUNT OF THE projects has already
appeared in the formal group reports, which