CMBC at a Glance  

Why is the CMBC successful?

1. It meets a broadly perceived need: ocean health is in a crisis and students, researchers, and friends of CMBC want to solve real-world problems.

2. The program is genuinely and broadly interdisciplinary: our courses are co-taught by faculty from NOAA fisheries, UCSD Departments of Economics and History,  Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies and the San Diego Super Computer Center. There is collaboration with a growing list of UCSD Departments including Communications, Anthropology, Political Science and Rady School of Management.  Instructors through our partnerships with Environmental Law Institute and World Wildlife provides students with real-world applications for this method of training.
   

3. We use innovative teaching methods that train students for careers outside of academia. CMBC's 10-week intensive summer course brings students from all disciplines together to teach them a common language and intellectual framework, and to involvement them in communication skill-building exercises and collaborative problem solving.

4. We have a global reach:  faculty and students conduct research around the world.

5. Scientists are well known in their fields with publications in Science and Nature and other major peer reviewed publications

CMBC by the numbers