Master's Degree in Marine Ecology

Academic year 2025-26

You can also consult this information for the academic year 2024-25.

General information about Master's theses

The Master's Thesis (TFM) comprises the production of an original academic work specifically written for this purpose, where students must individually apply the skills acquired throughout the programme under the supervision of one or more tutors. Depending on the profiles for each curriculum, the thesis shall enable the assessment of students' professional, educational and/or initial research abilities.

The information below covers each of the stages in TFM academic and administrative management in accordance with the Agreement of the Centre for Postgraduate Studies Management Committee whereby the internal regulations for writing and assessing master's theses at the University of the Balearic Islands are approved and which came into force in the 2020-21 academic year.

Specific information about theses for the Master's Degree in Marine Ecology

The TFM may be tutored by a maximum of three lecturers, all of whom must hold a PhD.
The tutors might be:

  • MECM teaching staff;
  • UIB researchers not linked to the degree programme;
  • or researchers, with or without a link to the programme, from the following collaborating research centres:
    • Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
    • Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO)
    • Balearic Islands Coastal Observing and Forecasting System (SOCIB)
    • Marine Research and Aquaculture Laboratory (LIMIA)
    • and any other organisation with an agreement in force with the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB).

In cases b and c, the lecturer responsible for coordinating TFMs will check the credentials and suitability of the tutor and decide whether a speaker or second tutor is needed who is linked to the degree.

All tutors must have up-to-date credentials so as to access the electronic application made available by the UIB and approve the registration and deposit of the TFM electronically.

Best practice for TFM students and tutors

Defended Master's thesis

Link to the institutional repository (DSPACE)

  • Bioprospección de Thenea muricata: Extracción, caracterización y evaluación ecotoxicológica de sus metabolitos
  • Distribution patterns and abundances of heterotrophic prokaryotes and the pico-phytoplankton fraction along the North-East Atlantic Ocean
  • Effects of the structural environmental enrichment in captived-bred nursehound (Scyliorhinus stellaris) juveniles for restocking
  • Genomic study of the genera Colwellia, Cognaticolwellia and Polaribacter from two marine sediment samples from Svalbard, Norway
  • Greenhouse gases emissions (CH4 and CO2) in vegetation along a salinity gradient in the Albufera de Mallorca
  • Study of the diet of juvenile bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean Sea and the presence of plastics in their stomach contents