海洋生物科学计划的学生将接触到各种各样的现代方法，以了解海洋环境中生物系统的组织和功能。海洋生物科学计划具有很高的综合性，学生在其课程和研究项目中接触到广泛的主题，从分子生物学和生物化学到生态学和生态系统研究。该计划的教职员工范围涵盖植物，动物和微生物的生态，生理学，遗传学和分子生物学。学院的研究专业特别集中在：微生物生理学和分子生态学，幼虫生态学和分子生物学，化学生态学，渔业生态学，水产遗传学和基因组学，湿地恢复。除了提供先进的教室和实验室设施外，学生还可以轻松进入刘易斯休·夏普校区附近的各种海洋生态系
Students in the marine biosciences program are exposed to a broad spectrum of modern approaches to understand the organization and function of biological systems in marine environments. The marine biosciences program is highly integrative as students are exposed to a wide range of subjects in their coursework and research projects, from molecular biology and biochemistry to ecology and ecosystem studies. Areas of faculty interest within the program span the ecology, physiology, genetics and molecular biology of plants, animals and microbes. Faculty research specializations are particularly concentrated in microbial physiology and molecular ecology, larval ecology and molecular biology, chemical ecology, fisheries ecology, aquacultural genetics and genomics, and wetland restoration. In addition to the sophisticated classroom and laboratory facilities available, students enjoy ready access to a variety of marine ecosystems near the Hugh R. Sharp Campus in Lewes: dunes, salt marshes, mudflats, estuaries and the Atlantic Ocean. Field research takes place from the Arctic to the Antarctic, in environments ranging from coral reefs to deep-sea hydrothermal vents, to local salt marshes and coastal waters.