Phycological Methods
Field Trips
- Monterey Bay Aquarium
- Tidepools of Monterey Bay
- Pescadero Point
Biomechanics: Fluid-imposed forces on macroalgae
- Lift
- Drag (Egregia)
- Acceleration reaction
- Net force
- Wave speeds
- Material properties of seaweeds (Egregia, Mazzaella)
Biomechanics: Transport and mixing in the aquatic environment
- Morphology and nutrients
- Mixing and fertilization
- Sinking rates of spores
- Sinking rates of phytoplankton
- Fragmentation and transport (Sargassum, Chondracanthus)
Culture techniques for algae
- Growing macroalgae from spores
- Mariculture (Porphyra)
- Phytoplankton
Ecological methods
- Quantitative sampling
- Estimating abundance of drift algae (Chondracanthus)
- Mapping population distributions
- Estimating the age of crusts
- Modeling population dynamics
Taxonomic tools
- Chemical methods for identification: resorcinol
- Light microscopy
- Scanning electron microscopy
- Mneumonics (someday we'll write ours down)
- Pictionalgae (play pictionary: draw illustrations of terms from the glossary.)