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ECOL 206, spring 2006, University of Arizona

Kevin Bonine, Ph.D., Alice Boyle, TA, Kristen Potter, TA

Evolving Lab/Field Trip Schedule

Your Saturday or Sunday field trip is in RED

Date
Topic
Readings etc.
Meeting Location

 



Week 1 (09-13 Jan)
No Lab
Read Ishmael (16 Copies on Reserve in Science Library)



Week 2 (16-20 Jan, KB) , LAB ASSIGNMENT
Campus Plant Walk
Meet in Lab (KOFFL 410), then depart


Week 3 (23-27 Jan, KB) LAB ASSIGNMENT
Discuss Ishmael, Biodiversity CD (Wilson)?
Ishmael (16 Copies on Reserve in Science Library)
Meet in Lab


Week 4 (30 Jan - 03 Feb, KP) LAB ASSIGNMENT (pdf file format)
(Note that the lab assignment handout above has an old assignment on the bottom of the 2nd page that I tried to cover with a white box. When you look at the file on the screen you can't see the assignment - but when you print the file the white box disappears. Please don't do the assignment on the bottom of the 2nd page.)
Aerial View of Tucson (this lab will be outside most of the time; bring hat, binoculars?, jacket?)
Pima County's Withdrawal From its Past:
Raymond Turner 2003 (SDCP) (Very Large File; please skim, look at pictures, but no need to print)
Meet in Lab, then depart


Week 5 (06-10 Feb, KP) LAB ASSIGNMENT (Word document)
Data Analysis, Graphing, Cane Toads
useful websites about presenting data graphically: 1) Presenting information Graphically, 2) Betty Jung's page
Meet in Lab


Week 6 (13-17 Feb, AB)
Handout to bring to lab this week: Plant Keys
Plant IDs, dichotomous key, Library Scavenger Hunt
Link to 2005 library site for ECOL206
Meet in Lab, then depart


Week 7 (20 Feb – 24 Feb, AB)
Sweetwater Waste Treatment (w/ Joaquim Delgado)
Questions and tips for lab this week: Handout
Please read: How water management in Tucson has affected desert surroundings
Please read: Shutes 2001
Optional: Troubled Waters, by Sandra Postel
Optional: Verhoeven and Meuleman 1999
Optional: Constructed Wetland details
Meet S side BSE at VAN


Saturday 25 Feb (KB)
Mt. Lemmon
Labs 1 + 2, Rex Adams, Laboratory of tree-Ring Research (LTTR)
Meet S side BSE, 7am - return ~ 6pm
(see readings below)

Sunday 26 Feb (KB)
Mt. Lemmon
Labs 3 + 4, Meet S side BSE, 7am - return ~ 6pm
Rex Adams, Laboratory of tree-Ring Research (LTTR)

Handouts to Bring with you on the Mt. Lemmon trip:
2-page handout
Data Sheet
Readings to do before the trip:
Sonorensis Publication 1989 (a great overview of Mt. Lemmon and our Sky Islands)
Guide to Mt. Lemmon Highway (with mileage, elevation, and checklists)
Miscellaneous Mt. Lemmon-related information (including a map)
Whittaker and Niering, 1965 (excerpts) (optional discussion of life zones and vegetation on Mt. Lemmon)
Cruising for Timber! (optional details on how to quickly calculate standing biomass)

Meet S side BSE, 7am - return ~ 6pm


Week 8 (27 Feb -03 Mar, KB)
Data analysis and summary Mt. Lemmon
Meet in Lab


Week 9 (06-10 Mar)
No Lab (work on your Group Project)


Week 10 (20-24 Mar, KP)
Tumamoc Hill (Desert Laboratory)
Tumamoc Hill Lab Handout (BRING with you to Lab)
Saguaro Life History Information (READ)

Tumamoc Hill Background Reading (by Nancy Wall)
Background Reading on Flooding and the Santa Cruz (thanks to Geosciences)

OPTIONAL READINGS: Tumamoc Hill Research,
Plants of the Sonoran Desert,
Views of the Changing Sonoran Desert (large file)
Meet S side BSE at VAN



Week 11 (27 – 31 Mar, KP)
Los Reales Landfill (with Wilson Hughes)
HANDOUT
Optional Reading: Lomborg 2001
Meet S side BSE at VAN


Week 12 (03-07 Apr, AB)
Population Modelling
Population Modelling Spreadsheet (you will be able to access in lab)
Population Modelling Handout (you will be able to access in lab)
Meet at ECE206 (map location)


Week 13 (10-14 Apr)
No Lab (work on your Group Project)


Cancelled:
Saturday 15 April
(AB): Field Trip to Cienega Creek Preserve and San Pedro River
Meet S side BSE at VAN at 8am, return about 4pm


Week 14 (17-21 Apr, KP)
Meat Production; Visit to meat processing facility,
Rifkin Reading (Chapter 1 of Beyond Beef)
Meet S side BSE at VAN




Week 15 (24-28 Apr, AB)
Recycling (w/ Alana Levine), Course Evaluations
Meet in Lab


Week 16 (01-03 May)
No Lab
Prepare for Final Exam!

 


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