The Marine Science (MarS) Program takes advantage of KAUST’’s location on the Red Sea, a living laboratory with great potential for exciting science. The program addresses the biology and ecology of the multitude of marine life forms. There is an intentional focus on the local Red Sea system, both as a primary study system and as a system with which general concepts from other marine systems can be compared. 

 
Faculty members in the program have a wide range of interests, reflected in the program’s course offerings. These include marine microbiology, molecular ecology and genomics, coral reef biology and ecology, pelagic ecology, and conservation of marine resources. Other faculty members associated with the program have interests in large-scale data assimilation, geophysical fluid dynamics, and modeling ir-sea interactions.