The Coastal Science Campus is the off-campus site home to which research area?

• A. Ecology and Evolutionary Science
• B. Computer Science and Engineering
• C. Marine Biology
• D. Astronomy

Answer: (A)

This question is about where ecological learning and evolutionary study are organized in a campus system. The Coastal Science Campus is designed to support research that looks at living systems in their natural environments, how communities of organisms interact, and how traits change over generations in real-world coastal settings. That makes Ecology and Evolutionary Science the best fit, because it covers studying ecosystems, species interactions, population dynamics, and evolutionary processes right where they occur—along coastlines with diverse habitats.

Other fields rely on different facilities: computing and engineering work centers on labs and fabrication spaces, astronomy needs observatories and dark-sky sites, and marine biology, while related to coastal studies, would focus more specifically on the biology of marine organisms and their physiology rather than broad ecological and evolutionary processes in the field.