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Field trip 2009

Invasive barnacle and other species on Tybee Pier 2009

Topics covered:

• Introduction to the marine environment: Physical and chemical properties of water
• Marine organisms: reproduction, dispersal and and migration
• Organisms of the open ocean: Plankton and plankton communities
• Organisms of the open ocean: Nekton
• Organisms of the sea bed: life in mud and sand
• Intertidal Ecology: Estuaries and Marshes
• Sea grass beds, kelp forests and Coral reefs
• Diversity of marine invertebrates
• Deep sea biology
• Human impact on the sea
• Several field trips to the Georgia coast

Deep sea urchin BLack smoker off Japan

INFORMATION/STUDY GUIDES FOR 2009

• EXAM I  
• EXAM II
  

 FIELD TRIP DATA

• TRAWL DATA 2009**

• TYBEE ISLAND DATA 2009

1. After looking at all the data I have decided on the following slight modifications.
2. Use your group's data only.  If you have percentage cover for all organisms (green and brown algae, Balanus, Megabalanus, Chthalamus, oysters (Crassostrea sp.) etc. you can have a graph showing percentage cover per zone.  
3. From the picture above you can tell that there were two species of Balanus, though we did not take this into account you can use the above picture and make a note of it in your write up.
4. Use the instructions in your handout to calculate the Simpson's index for your data. 
5. You should have six values for the Simpson's index, present these data in tabular form or in a graph.  
6. Follow the rest of the instructions in your handout.
7. See me if you have questions.  Below are data for 3 groups.  If I have the wrong data for your group please let me know. 

• SALT MARSH DATA 2009

LECTURE NOTES

• MARINE ECOLOGY NOTES  I

• MARINE ECOLOGY NOTES II 

• MARINE ECOLOGY NOTES III (fishes)

INTERESTING WEB SITES

• Coral health and monitoring
• Gray's reef and Fishes off the coast of Georgia
• Marine invertebrates and vertebrates
• Marine Flumes
• Hydrothermal vents /cold seeps
• More on Hydrothermal vents
• More information on the deep sea
• Wonders of the sea
• Learn more about submersibles at Woods Hole Institute of Oceanography (go to National Deep Submergence Facility, NDSF)
• Estuaries, Ekman spiral, waves, tides  (coastal oceanography)
• Extreme environments
• MarineBio
  

SUMMER COURSES AND INTERNSHIPS

• For students who would like to get field experience in Marine Ecology you can participate in the summer course Tropical Marine Biology offered every summer by the Biology department, Georgia Southern University at Lee Stocking Island in the Bahamas; for more details on this course go to Tropical marine Biology

• For students interested in the field of marine biotechnology, there are summer undergraduate research fellowships available at the University of Hawaii and California. You can apply online and send documents later. For more details including application deadlines go to MarBEC.

• There are also summer undergraduate research fellowships available for graduate and undergraduate students at Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington  deadline March 1st every year.

• Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution in Florida especially if you are interested in summer internships in the Biomedical sciences and other related areas. Check web site for more details.

• There are many other internships check the bulletin boards along the corridors