Marine Botany

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Trips to diverse marine habitats
  • Monterey Bay Aquarium
  • Tidepools of Monterey Bay
  • Pescadero Point

Biomechanics

Fluid-imposed forces on macroalgae

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)

Culturetechniques for algae

Ecological methods

Taxonomic tools

Study strategies

  • Mneumonics (someday we'll write ours down)
  • Pictionalgae (play pictionary: draw illustrations of terms from the glossary.)

   copyright Elizabeth Nelson and Judith Connor 1999       

Last updated: Feb. 28, 2005