Marine Botany
Class meets Tuesday and Thursday 1-5 p.m.
                          
Week                                 
1st Tuesday            
Expectations: Content, Communication, Computers skills JC
What are algae?
Introduction to microscopes
 
1st Thursday        
Evolution of plastids JC
Symbiotic events
Web critique
 
2nd Tuesday          
Reproduction and life histories PM
Pressing seaweeds
 
2nd Thursday         
Taxonomy PM
Anthophyta, seagrasses
Chlorophyta, the green algae
 
3rd Tuesday       
Phaeophyceae, the brown algae JC
 
3rd Thursday          
Rhodophyta I, the red algae JC
Student projects: place your order, pick your species
 
4th Tuesday            
Rhodophyta II, the red algae JC
 
4th Thursday           
Biomechanics I: morphology and wave motion PM
 
5th Tuesday             
Biomechanics II: breaking seaweeds PM
 
5th Thursday             
Phytoplankton JC
Plankton tow
 
6th Tuesday           
Communities: estuaries, salt marsh, deep sea drift JC
 
6th Thursday
Communities: the rocky intertidal, kelp forests JC
Index web page due on each species
 
7th Tuesday             
Chemical factors: nutrients, CO2, O2, pH, salinity JC
 
7th Thursday                    
Physical factors: light and temperature
Work on projects  
8th Tuesday            
Biological interactions:predation, parasites JC
Work on projects
Submit presentation titles
 
8th Thursday       
Biological interactions: competition, symbioses PM
Work on projects
 
9th Tuesday
Anthropogenic effects PM
Invasive species, harmful algal blooms
Work on projects
 
9th Thursday
Communities: tropical reefs, lagoons, mangroves JC
Web projects due
 
9th  Saturday
Thanksgiving Dinner at Algal Acres JC/MV
 
10th Tuesday
Symposium: student presentations
 
10th Thursday
Practice lab practical

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Last updated: Jan. 05, 2005