PRINCIPALS OF ESTUARINE ECOLOGY LABORATORY MNS f152L (Requires concurrent enrollment in MNS f352)

       FIELD EXCURSIONS

1.    Copano - Aransas Estuarine Transect: Biological response to a salinity gradient.

2.    Nueces Marsh:  Freshwater inflow and marsh ecology

3.    Lower Laguna Madre (2 night field trip):  Estuarine productivity and trophic structure

Grading:

3 lab reports - each worth 15%, total 45%
Attendance (15%) and Participation (10%), total 55%