<p>I have been researching marine biology concentrations at Brown and Harvard, but would love to hear from concentrators at those schools to get a sense of which might be better. I have visited both schools (like both, though they're quite different) and sat in on classes, but that only tells part of the story. When I Google marine biology programs, Brown usually isn't listed (typically, Harvard and Cornell are the only Ivies listed). Considering Duke also. Thanks.</p>
<p>[We</a> have a marine biology concentration?](<a href=“http://www.handbook.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k69286&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup106995"]We”>http://www.handbook.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k69286&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup106995)</p>
<p>Maybe you know better than me! I understood there to be a “designated pathway” in marine bio & evol biological oceanography (within organismic & evol bio). At least that’s what it says on the OEB department’s website.</p>
<p>That’s quite possible–it’s not a full concentration, though. If I were you, I’d look at WHOI’s info to begin with, rather than individual college’s information: [Undergraduate</a> Resources : Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution](<a href=“Page Not Found - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution”>http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=9125). I did once look into colleges with marine bio designated programs, and Harvard isn’t really one of them. We’re a college at which you can take a concentration and do ocean-related things within it. It’s also not something, clearly, that I’ve heard of. I do spend my time in the social sciences, though, so that may not mean much. On the other hand, it’s not a Presence on campus on the way it might be at some others. </p>
<p>Would you concentrate in OEB if it wasn’t particularly ocean-focused, rather than, say, Molecular and Cellular Biology? You can become a “marine biologist” with any specialty that there is in biology, pretty much. It’s not much more restrictive than “land biologist.” (Although your username suggests that you would prefer the former.)</p>
<p>What about looking at Stanford? They have the Monterey
program.</p>