WELCOME TO THE MARINE ECOLOGY WEB PAGE AT GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY!!!!!

Invasive barnacle and other species on Tybee Pier

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

LECTURE NOTES FOR 2012

• NOTES FOR EXAM I 2012
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• EXAM II
  

DATA

• SALINITY EXPERIMENTS
• OXYGEN DATA

• Use data highlighted in GREY ONLY
  
• You need to go to VASSARSTATS select ANOVA on the left column then select one way-ANOVA
• Input your data as shown in the following example (pdf)
• you have 4 samples; a sample represents a salinity treatment
• plot the means ± standard error
• report the F, p and df values in your write up and explain what it means
• NOTE: for a one way ANOVA data are combined for simplicity as there were no differences between replicates
•  Grad students can keep theirs separate if they wish
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• HANDOUT for HARD SUBSTRATE FIELD TRIP
• Example of how to arrange data after collection - TOTAL NUMBER of INDIVIDUALS of ALL SPECIES
  

FIELD TRIP DATA

• TRAWL FIELD TRIP PICTS 2012***

• TYBEE ISLAND DATA 2012

• SALT MARSH DATA 2012
• SALT MARSH FIELD TRIP PICTS 2012
  

LECTURE NOTES

• MARINE ECOLOGY NOTES 2012 
  
• MARINE ECOLOGY NOTES 2 2012
• MARINE ECOLOGY NOTES 3 2012
•  MARINE ECOLOGY NOTES 4 2012
  

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 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
• Oceana
• Skidaway Institute of oceanography
• NOAA VIDEO clips
• accredited on-line college
  

SUMMER COURSES AND INTERNSHIPS

• 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