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The Marine Affairs Program promotes聽interdisciplinary聽student professional growth, professional relationship development, and marine-related research in two ways:

• Internships
• Graduate projects, led by the MMM

These activities go hand-in-hand with preparatory coursework, linked by the marine-related topic chosen by the student.

Internships:

Successful completion of the Master of Marine Management degree requires each MMM student to complete an internship at a suitable host institution for 4-12 weeks, with a minimum of four weeks permitted. Internships are often a highlight of the MMM student experience, giving our students聽real world, hands on聽experience and building their professional networks and personal growth.

Students work in a relevant organization under the supervision of the host in a manner equivalent to a "full-time" placement and are expected to contribute to the needs of the host organization. It is a priority for the Marine Affairs Program that students are appropriately renumerated for their work during their internships. 聽While paid internships are not required, they are strongly encouraged in order to support a successful internship period for both host and student. There are a number of funding mechanisms to help internship hosts support the stipend cost of an MMM intern; please email Marine Affairs (marine.affairs@dal.ca) if you鈥檇 like to learn more.

MMM students remains a full-time student during the summer term, covered by the University's insurance programs.聽 聽

Many organizations have hosted MMM student interns in the past, with a fair number becoming full-time employers of those students after graduation. That range of host organizations has included universities, government, NGO, military and the private sector, with recent examples like Fisheries and Oceans (federal), Ecology Action Centre (NGO), World Wildlife Federation (NGO), Halifax Port Authority (Private-Public), Unama鈥檏i Institute of Natural Resources (Indigenous NGO), and Huntsman Marine Science Centre (Science Institution).

Importantly, incoming MMM students do not need to organize an internship in advance.

MMM students can also intern with individual faculty or other professional researchers, as opportunities allow. Interning with a researcher is a good fit for students who might be interested in pursuing research-oriented careers (such as in academia or industry) or PhDs. These internship opportunities change on a year-to-year basis and should be sought with individual researchers by currently enrolled MMM students.

Graduate Projects:

Graduate Projects聽are supervised written research papers that are the culmination of the student鈥檚 scholarly pursuits and reflect their abilities for analysis, synthesis, organization of complex data, and a capacity for critical examination of planning and management issues. Graduate projects are a significant part of the MMM training, and include identifying a marine management problem, designing a research plan to investigate that problem, and then presenting results and synthesis of that investigation in a comprehensive written project.

Graduate projects can either take the form of a formal report or a manuscript suitable for peer-review publication. While publication of student research is not a requirement or expectation of the MMM program, some students projects are appropriate for publication. Students interested in publishing work one-on-one with their academic supervisors to evaluate whether their project is a good candidate for publication and prepare a manuscript.

Examples of past MMM graduate projects can be found on the聽.