ACES Courses

ACES offers courses that provide students with opportunities to engage with remote sensing technologies, environmental research, and real-world applications. Please refer to CaneLink for current course availability, meeting times, prerequisites, and registration information.

Spring 2027

Student Presenting Coral Data Imagery

Planetary Science, The Search for Life, & Oceans Across the Solar System

MSC 332

This course is intended to provide undergraduate students with an exciting introduction to the search for life in the universe, with an emphasis on contemporary planetary science methods, astrobiology, oceans across the solar system, and lessons from Earth as an analog environment. Students will gain hands-on experience through interactive optical laboratory experiments and an optional field trip to a local reef as an analog planetary ocean environment.
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