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Beautiful Oceans Coral Reef Ecosystem and Food Web

1 day $160 uSD

Beautiful Oceans Coral Reef Ecosystem & Food Web

  Did you know that Nassau  groupers - although they are mostly solitary - sometimes appear in enormous  schools, particularly during annual spawning events when aggregations of up to  30,000 individuals have been recorded?
 

This and lots of other  interesting science facts about the coral reef ecosystem and food web, you will  learn in this outstanding  program. After  taking the Coral Reef Guardian course, every dive will be a new challenge, and the reef a playground for  nature lovers. Discover the amazing feeding relationships between the organisms  that inhabit a fringing reef, learn how energy travels through the coral reef  ecosystem, and spend 2 dives and a snorkeling tour investigating the different feeding  behaviors on the reef.
 

As part of our  commitment to protecting the underwater environment, and advocating  environmental education, we are proud to be able to offer the popular, marine  science educational courses from Beautiful Oceans. The course fee includes Coral Reef Guardian Manual, online  access to the Beautiful Oceans eAcademy, 2 dives, creature discovery kit and  certification.
 

This course is ideal for  all divers from entry level who wish to gain more from their dives, to dive  professionals who wish to become coral reef experts in order to give their  students and divers a better diving experience.
 

A unique benefit of  taking your training with the Utila Dive Centre is that you can immediately  enroll in the online portion of this program!
Come and be part of it! 

Detailed course description and benefits

Beautiful Oceans Coral Reef Ecosystem & Food  Web is the 'Who Eats Who' of  the coral reef - This program will help you understand what constitutes a coral  reef ecosystem and how food webs result in the movement of energy from organism  to organism. You will also learn about seagrass and mangrove ecosystems, which  are associated with coral reefs. This program will introduce you to some of the  major groups of organisms that live on coral reefs, such as phytoplankton,  zooplankton, algae, plants, coral, fish, sponges, echinoderms, arthropods,  worms and mollusks. You will also learn some of the basic interactions that  occur between these groups, discover example species and learn some of their  interesting behaviors. Finally, this program will introduce you to the  Beautiful Oceans Coral Reef Organism Behavior Tool and will provide you with an  easy way to apply this tool to creatures you encounter on coral reefs. This  tool will teach you how your creature of interest gets the energy it needs to  survive and when the best time to observe the creature is. The online portion of this program is  comprised of 30 online topics containing compelling text, beautiful pictures,  fascinating videos, over 100 interactive online quizzes, a final comprehensive  knowledge review and an online certificate of completion for print out. You  will receive the following accompanying program materials upon arrival at  Utila: an 130-pages strong full-color course manual, a luxury collector's  binder, 2 Creature Discovery Kits (comprised of a letter-sized paper insert and  a plastic pocket dive slate).
 
  Course  benefits
 
  • Understanding how coral reefs function as  an ecosystem allows you observe the big picture of life on the reef and  appreciate the importance of each individual organism
  • Recognizing the major organisms that  exist on coral reefs and their position in the food web helps you familiarize  yourself with the entire ecosystem
  • Knowing how one organism interacts with  another can tell us a great deal about its role in the ecosystem—what  scientists refer to as its ecological niche. Knowing an organism's niche can  help us understand and even predict some of the behaviours and interactions we  witness during our exploration of coral reefs through both scuba diving and  snorkeling
  • Understanding the morphology of an  organism tell divers and snorkelers a lot about the lifestyle and behaviour of  an organism
  • To help us learn more about the coral  reef food web and some of Caribbean's most common reef organisms, we have  created the Beautiful Oceans Coral Reef Organism Behaviour Tool—Food Web. This  tool will help you understand more about each organism you encounter on your  discovery dives and snorkel tours— WHAT is the position of a particular  organism in the food web, HOW does it gain energy, and WHEN does it gain  energy— allowing to you find creatures, and observe and predict behaviours that  you may otherwise miss.
 
  By  the end of this course
 
  • You will be able to describe the characteristics  of a coral reef ecosystem
  • You will understand the connection between  coral reefs, mangroves and seagrass ecosystems
  • You will understand how predation,  competition and symbiosis are part of a healthy functioning ecosystem
  • You be able to describe the process of  photosynthesis
  • You will be able to explain the difference  between a herbivore, omnivore and carnivore
  • You will be able to name the major groups  of organisms on coral reefs
  • You will able to identify and name example  species in each of these groups
  • You will be able to understand and even  predict some of the common behaviours of coral reef organisms
  • You will discover what, when and how  certain example species eat
• You will learn to appreciate all life on  coral reefs from the tiniest phytoplankton to the shark

'Contact Us' to book onto this program and start online learning today, and for mor einformation please go to the website of Beautiful Oceans.

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