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Coursera: Coursera’s First Marine Science MOOC: Marine Megafauna | An Introduction to Marine Science and Conservation
Dave Johnston is a broadly skilled biological oceanographer and marine conservation biologist whose research focuses on the habitat needs of marine vertebrates in relation to pressing conservation issues. Johnston teaches courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels at Duke University - with experience in large and small classrooms, as well as in field-based learning situations. “It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself.” In her preface to the second edition of “The Sea Around Us”, Rachel Carson succinctly captured the importance of the ocean when it comes to life on earth, including humans. Life started in the ocean, and we disrupt ocean processes at our peril. Despite the incredible importance of the ocean to all life on earth, most people know ver…