Overview 2021
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The Master of Applied Science (Marine Environment) provides graduates with advanced skills and knowledge in the collection, analysis and translation of scientific information for real world outcomes. Specialisation options are available in one of four major streams: FISHERIES MANAGEMENT, AQUACULTURE, MARINE CONSERVATION and AQUATIC ANIMAL HEALTH. Graduates are well positioned to contribute in areas of marine resource and environmental management, science policy, and technical management across a range of marine and maritime industries.
Commencing with development of skills and knowledge via eight coursework units, this course concludes by exposing students to independent, research-based study with a one semester (or equivalent) research project. The supervised project refines students' skills and knowledge in knowledge and data integration, synthesis and critiquing skills.
Career outcomes
Successful completion of this degree will have developed leadership, and management level skills & knowledge for employment across marine/maritime sectors including conservation and environmental management, fisheries and aquaculture production and post-harvest, the tourism industry, shipping and offshore industries, non-governmental organisations and all levels of government from local to global. Graduates of this degree are well suited to leadership and management roles in industrial, governmental, and non-governmental regulatory and policy positions.
Professional Recognition
The Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEST) has accredited this degree as meeting the further learning requirements, in full, for registration as a Chartered Scientist and Chartered Marine Scientist.
Course structure
The first eight units of the Master of Applied Science (Marine Environment) (J7T) are identical in structure to the Graduate Diploma of Applied Science (Marine Environment) (J6T). Students complete 6 discipline units from their major specialisation and 2 approved units according to the respective major schedule (Schedules A to D).
A further practicum component of 5 days work experience (a total of 15 days) is required to complete the requirements of the Master of Applied Science (Marine Environment).
On successful completion of the coursework units, students enrol in the 0.5yr research project (dissertation) typically involving analysis, evaluation and synthesis of pre-existing data or information. Learning outcomes of the research project are assessed via submission of a dissertation.
Students enrolling directly into the Master of Applied Science (Marine Environment) may exit the course at the following points with the relevant award:
Complete 4 x 12.5% weighted units, plus 5 days practicum and exit with Graduate Certificate of Applied Science (Marine Environment).
Complete 8 x 12.5% weighted units, plus 10 days practicum and exit with Graduate Diploma of Applied Science (Marine Environment).
Please Note: Candidates progressing to, or enrolled in, the Master of Applied Science (Marine Environment) or Master of Applied Science (Marine Environment) with Honours require either Quantitative Methods or Data Analysis and Presentation unless they can demonstrate a sufficient level of expertise in Biostatistics in which case they can choose from the list of electives.
Schedule A: Fisheries Management
Discipline Units
This unit provides the student with a broad overview of the human system of fisheries and an understanding of both the harvest and post-harvest sectors of the fishing industry. On completion of this unit, students will be able to: describe…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
This unit provides students with a detailed understanding of fisheries biology and population dynamics. Biological concepts, morphology, behaviour, reproduction, and life histories strategies of fisheries species. The unit also covers the logistical and quantitative methodologies associated with undertaking a biological…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
View all details for JFA515 Fisheries Biology and Population Dynamics
This unit presents the fundamental building blocks of marine resource economics and the key objectives and components of the bio-economic theory of marine resource management. On completing this unit students will be able to: critically appraise economic aspects of marine…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
This unit provides students with a detailed understanding of the quantitative techniques employed in the assessment of fished stocks. The unit covers fishery dependent and fishery independent data and its use in predictive modelling, mortality estimation, biomass and yield modelling,…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
This advanced unit provides the student with the opportunity to apply strategic management and planning processes to a fisheries case-study. On the successful completion of this unit, students will be able to critically appraise issues for the management of a…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
View all details for JFA528 Fisheries Management and Planning
The purpose of this unit is to make students aware of the options to reduce the impacts of fishing on the marine environment. This advanced unit provides the student with the opportunity to assess the impacts of fishing on the…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
This unit will emphasise the management of fisheries following the principles of Ecologically Sustainable Development. The aim of this unit is to provide you with a framework for the strategic management of fisheries. The principles of fisheries management will be…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
Degree Electives
Students will gain knowledge and understanding of the practical and theoretical concepts involved in the production of current and future commercially important aquatic species (including molluscs, crustaceans and finfish). Students will be able to relate the biology of culture species…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
This unit provides students with an understanding of the relationship between society and the marine environment and the varied and contested nature of these connections. Students will learn about different stakeholder groups and their interests in the marine environment, with…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
Unit Aim: To provide the student with the principles and practices necessary for the planning and management of marine protected areas. Within this unit students will study protected area management from a regulator’s perspective, covering the following broad concepts: 1.…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
View all details for JFA533 Marine Protected Area Management
…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
The emphasis in this unit is on training scientists to be literate in statistical issues so that both "consumers" and "producers" of data analysis will be able to effectively communicate. Students will be able to critically assess, understand, and use…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
Dissertation Units
Students develop implement and carry out a short project typically using available data and information under the supervision of at least one staff member from the National Centre for Marine Conservation and Resource Sustainability. The progress and outcomes of the…
Credit Points: 25
This unit is currently unavailable.
Students develop implement and carry out a short project typically using available data and information under the supervision of at least one staff member from the National Centre for Marine Conservation and Resource Sustainability. The progress and outcomes of the…
Credit Points: 25
This unit is currently unavailable.
Schedule B: Aquaculture
Discipline Units
This unit provides an in-depth view of aquaculture recirculation, cage, tank, raceway and pond systems and their associated technologies such as filtration, aeration, water conditioning, fish pumps, grades, counters, feeding systems etc, both in Australia and overseas. The unit takes…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
This unit will integrate knowledge about larval and early life history biology with the practices and processes that underpin hatchery operations for algal, molluscan, crustacean and finfish production. This unit will expose students to a range of practices across key…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
Students will gain knowledge and understanding of the practical and theoretical concepts involved in the production of current and future commercially important aquatic species (including molluscs, crustaceans and finfish). Students will be able to relate the biology of culture species…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
The unit provides students with a detailed understanding of aquatic animal feeds and nutrition from selection of ingredients to the impact of feeds on product quality. The relationships between nutrition and farming practice, feed formulation, physiology and biochemistry of aquatic…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
View all details for JFA522 Aquatic Animal Feeds and Nutrition
This unit provides students with understanding of aquatic animal health issues. Disease diagnosis and treatment are discussed with the main emphasis placed on health management. Host, environment and pathogen relationships are examined. The unit covers immunology of aquatic animals. Problem-solving…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
This unit exposes students to a detailed examination of the physiology of aquatic organisms, with an emphasis on fish and crustaceans. Development, growth, respiration, osmoregulation excretion, reproduction, endocrinology and sensory physiology are discussed in relation to the effects of natural…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
View all details for JFA524 Aquatic Animal Physiology and Behaviour
This unit covers the theoretical, technical and ethical use of molecular biology to investigate aquatic systems. Students learn the theory, techniques and practice of molecular biology and its application in fields of aquaculture and fisheries, and aquatic biology and ecology.…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
This unit integrates knowledge from other units in the course with new concepts around the topics of government policy, planning and costing of production, facility design, farm management, product development & quality, marketing, environmental impact assessment, animal welfare and sanitary…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
View all details for JFA551 Aquaculture Policy and Operations
Degree Electives
This unit outlines quality assurance systems and the sensory and non-sensory evaluation of seafood. Topics will include key attributes of a quality system, system requirements, product attributes and measurement. The strengths and weaknesses of some quality systems will be reviewed…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
View all details for JFA521 Seafood Safety and Quality Control
This unit will emphasise the management of fisheries following the principles of Ecologically Sustainable Development. The aim of this unit is to provide you with a framework for the strategic management of fisheries. The principles of fisheries management will be…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
The emphasis in this unit is on training scientists to be literate in statistical issues so that both "consumers" and "producers" of data analysis will be able to effectively communicate. Students will be able to critically assess, understand, and use…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
Dissertation Units
Students develop implement and carry out a short project typically using available data and information under the supervision of at least one staff member from the National Centre for Marine Conservation and Resource Sustainability. The progress and outcomes of the…
Credit Points: 25
This unit is currently unavailable.
Students develop implement and carry out a short project typically using available data and information under the supervision of at least one staff member from the National Centre for Marine Conservation and Resource Sustainability. The progress and outcomes of the…
Credit Points: 25
This unit is currently unavailable.
Schedule C: Marine Conservation
Discipline Units
This unit provides an overview of concepts and methods for conservation biology including the conceptual foundations of conservation biology, solving conservation biology problems and statistical methods for measuring biodiversity. The syllabus includes definitions of biodiversity, threats to biodiversity, and the…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
This unit presents the fundamental building blocks of marine resource economics and the key objectives and components of the bio-economic theory of marine resource management. On completing this unit students will be able to: critically appraise economic aspects of marine…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
Being a multidisciplinary unit, this unit brings together the subject material of a number of disciplines to help design policy. In order to manage marine ecosystems sustainably, including decisions to use or conserve these ecosystems, an understanding of the primary…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
View all details for JFA526 Ecosystem Assessment for Policy Design
This unit provides an overview of marine biosecurity through the investigation of concepts, regulatory approaches, assessment and management of marine invasions. The syllabus includes a conceptual and historical introduction to marine invasion biology, global perspectives on biological invasions, pathways of…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
This unit provides students with an understanding of the relationship between society and the marine environment and the varied and contested nature of these connections. Students will learn about different stakeholder groups and their interests in the marine environment, with…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
Unit Aim: To provide the student with the principles and practices necessary for the planning and management of marine protected areas. Within this unit students will study protected area management from a regulator’s perspective, covering the following broad concepts: 1.…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
View all details for JFA533 Marine Protected Area Management
The purpose of this unit is to gain a basic, practical understanding of GIS and remote sensing concepts, techniques and their real world applications. Techniques for data collection, integration, manipulation and spatial analysis are introduced. Practical sessions using PC-based GIS…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
Degree Electives
This unit covers the theoretical, technical and ethical use of molecular biology to investigate aquatic systems. Students learn the theory, techniques and practice of molecular biology and its application in fields of aquaculture and fisheries, and aquatic biology and ecology.…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
Overall purpose / aim / objective: to review and critique peer-reviewed literature on specific topics relevant to the marine environment. Students will learn how to synthesise information and will then scientifically critique information in order to develop their own ideas…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
View all details for JFA539 Topics In Marine Environmental Studies
…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
The emphasis in this unit is on training scientists to be literate in statistical issues so that both "consumers" and "producers" of data analysis will be able to effectively communicate. Students will be able to critically assess, understand, and use…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
Dissertation Units
Students develop implement and carry out a short project typically using available data and information under the supervision of at least one staff member from the National Centre for Marine Conservation and Resource Sustainability. The progress and outcomes of the…
Credit Points: 25
This unit is currently unavailable.
Students develop implement and carry out a short project typically using available data and information under the supervision of at least one staff member from the National Centre for Marine Conservation and Resource Sustainability. The progress and outcomes of the…
Credit Points: 25
This unit is currently unavailable.
Schedule D: Aquatic Animal Health
Discipline Units
This unit will integrate knowledge about larval and early life history biology with the practices and processes that underpin hatchery operations for algal, molluscan, crustacean and finfish production. This unit will expose students to a range of practices across key…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
Students will gain knowledge and understanding of the practical and theoretical concepts involved in the production of current and future commercially important aquatic species (including molluscs, crustaceans and finfish). Students will be able to relate the biology of culture species…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
The unit provides students with a detailed understanding of aquatic animal feeds and nutrition from selection of ingredients to the impact of feeds on product quality. The relationships between nutrition and farming practice, feed formulation, physiology and biochemistry of aquatic…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
View all details for JFA522 Aquatic Animal Feeds and Nutrition
This unit provides students with understanding of aquatic animal health issues. Disease diagnosis and treatment are discussed with the main emphasis placed on health management. Host, environment and pathogen relationships are examined. The unit covers immunology of aquatic animals. Problem-solving…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
This unit exposes students to a detailed examination of the physiology of aquatic organisms, with an emphasis on fish and crustaceans. Development, growth, respiration, osmoregulation excretion, reproduction, endocrinology and sensory physiology are discussed in relation to the effects of natural…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
View all details for JFA524 Aquatic Animal Physiology and Behaviour
This unit covers the theoretical, technical and ethical use of molecular biology to investigate aquatic systems. Students learn the theory, techniques and practice of molecular biology and its application in fields of aquaculture and fisheries, and aquatic biology and ecology.…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
This unit provides an overview of marine biosecurity through the investigation of concepts, regulatory approaches, assessment and management of marine invasions. The syllabus includes a conceptual and historical introduction to marine invasion biology, global perspectives on biological invasions, pathways of…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
Degree Electives
…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
The emphasis in this unit is on training scientists to be literate in statistical issues so that both "consumers" and "producers" of data analysis will be able to effectively communicate. Students will be able to critically assess, understand, and use…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
Dissertation Units
Students develop implement and carry out a short project typically using available data and information under the supervision of at least one staff member from the National Centre for Marine Conservation and Resource Sustainability. The progress and outcomes of the…
Credit Points: 25
This unit is currently unavailable.
Students develop implement and carry out a short project typically using available data and information under the supervision of at least one staff member from the National Centre for Marine Conservation and Resource Sustainability. The progress and outcomes of the…
Credit Points: 25
This unit is currently unavailable.
Entry requirements
Admission Prerequisites
Applicants for this course will have obtained an Australian Bachelor degree or equivalent qualification at a recognised tertiary institution. Applicants with degrees in environmental management, wildlife management, marine biology, environmental science, environmental or ecological economics, environmental law or policy or related disciplines will be accepted for entry.Alternative entry is considered on a case by case basis for applicants having demonstrable learning and experience in aquatic or marine science. Those not meeting this requirement may be required to undertake additional study to gain admission.
Students are required to obtain an overall credit average in the course work component of the course before progressing to the research project unit (Dissertation). Enrolment in the Dissertation is also subject to approval. Approval will be informed by availability of suitable academic supervision and other project resourcing requirements.
Articulation from
* Graduates of the Bachelor of Applied Science (Marine Environment) may enrol; no credit is offered for units completed as part of the Bachelor of Applied Science (Marine Environment).
* Students holding a Bachelor degree majoring in biological, environmental sciences, or other relevant disciplines are eligible to enrol in this course.
* Graduate Certificate of Applied Science (Marine Environment) and Graduate Diploma of Applied Science (Marine Environment) graduates will be granted credit for relevant units towards the requirements of the Master of Applied Science (Marine Environment).
Fees & scholarships
Domestic students
Domestic students enrolled in a full fee paying place are charged the Student Services and Amenities Fee but this fee is incorporated in the fees you pay for each unit you enrol in. Full fee paying domestic students do not have to make any additional SSAF payments.
Detailed tuition fee information for domestic students is available at the Domestic Student Fees website, including additional information in relation to a compulsory Student Services and Amenities Fee (SSAF).
Domestic students enrolled in certain postgraduate coursework programs may not be eligible for student payments through Youth Allowance and Austudy. Visit the Department of Social Services website to find out more about eligibility for Centrelink support and the list of eligible courses
International students
2021 Total Course Fee (international students): TBA *.
Course cost based on a rate of $29,250 AUD per standard, full-time year of study (100 credit points).
* Please note that this is an indicative fee only.
Scholarships
For information on general scholarships available at the University of Tasmania, please visit the scholarships website.
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