The New Zealand Marine Studies Centre is part of the University of Otago's Marine Science Department. We are a multidisciplinary department with research strengths in both biological and physical marine sciences. Our research takes us to locations all around New Zealand and much further afield, for example the Campbell and Auckland Islands and Antarctica.
Find out about the research themes in the Marine Science Department.
Coastal People: Southern Skies
Coastal People: Southern Skies is a research collaboration that connects communities with world-leading, cross-discipline research to support transformative change to rebuild coastal ecosystems.
Marine Studies researchers are significant contributors to this collaboration:
Marine Studies Our people
Student research projects
As well as undergraduate courses in Marine Science, the department offers postgraduate courses.
View our 2024 Marine Science postgraduate students' research posters:
- Damselfish In Deep Heat, Dominic Hayes (PDF)
- Disease Discovery in NZ Kelp, Lily Harvey (PDF)
- Fished vs Overfished, Holly Wills (PDF)
- Kelp and Flies: An unlikely duo in creating value from organic waste, Toiroa Whaanga-Davies (PDF)
- Kelp Babies: Things are getting heated, Anna Parsons (PDF)
- Kelp forest changes, Jordan Mann (PDF)
- Ocean temperature variability, Cassidy Collier (PDF)
- Redder seas calls for a science warning, Kaitlin Olsen (PDF)
- Seeking Sanctuary: Exploring thermal refuges for giant kelp, Yuna Barbenel (PDF)
- Slow down, you’re growing too fast!, Satish Cussins (PDF)
- The race to grow, Emma Pettigrew (PDF)
- Wakame, Oliver Sanders (PDF)