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The Marine Sciences Program is located on UConn's coastal campus at Avery Point, on the shores of Long Island Sound. Our Program includes the Department of Marine Sciences and the Marine Sciences and Technology Center. Within this program, faculty, staff, and students carry out cutting-edge research in coastal oceanography using cross-disciplinary approaches. We offer both undergraduate and graduate degrees that are characterized by an interdisciplinary foundation, high faculty-to-student ratio, and individualized plans of study and research. Our program offers the intimacy and support of a small campus, coupled with the resources of a top-notch public university and internationally renowned scientists.

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"Ancient Diatom Ruins": Marine Sciences' Researchers share in the Roland B. Snow Award
Marine Sciences' graduate student, John Doyle, and faculty member, Evan Ward, co-authored a poster at the annual meeting of the American Ceramic Society that took top prize in the Ceramographic Competition.
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CT Sea Grant announces new funding to UConn Marine Sciences researchers
CT Sea Grant recently announced new awards for research projects led by Marine Sciences faculty. “These projects will greatly add to our understanding of the natural systems of Long Island Sound, its natural resources, and the ability of surrounding shoreline communities to conserve and use those resources”, said Dr. Syma Ebbin, research coordinator for CT Sea Grant
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Northeast Ocean Network Receives Funding for Next Five Years
A Northeast ocean-monitoring network, including the University of Connecticut’s marine sciences department, has been awarded $1.77 million from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration over the next year, and similar funding for the next four years.
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A Deep-Sea Research II paper top 25 hottest of 2011
A Deep-Sea Research II paper by DMS Professor and Head Ann Bucklin and coauthors, "A Rosetta Stone for metazoan zooplankton: DNA barcode analysis of species diversity of the Sargasso Sea (Northwest Atlantic Ocean)", is one of the top 25 hottest - most downloaded - Deep-Sea Research papers of 2011. The article results from the Census of Marine Zooplankton (CMarZ, see www.cmarz.org), a Census of Marine Life ocean realm field program.
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