The Graduate Program in Oceanography is centered in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, which serves as a focus of interdisciplinary studies and research in estuarine, coastal and open-ocean environments. A broad range of research opportunities are available, including: real-time studies in the coastal ocean using advanced underwater instrumentation, biological and geological processes at deep-sea hydrothermal vents, remote sensing and ocean modeling, advanced underwater optics and fish behavior, biodiversity and marine molecular biology, coastal geomorphology, organism-sediment interactions, cycling of organic and inorganic materials in the ocean, watershed ecosystems.