ESTUARINE ECOLOGY - MNS f352c

PRINCIPALS OF ESTUARINE ECOLOGY, MNS f352

A Department of Marine Science upper division undergraduate course. Summer session course offered in even numbered years. Detailed course information for registered students available on Blackboard.

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Instructor:
Dr. Ken Dunton (749-6744)
Dr. Chris Shank (749-6776)

Textbooks:
The Estuarine Ecosystem (3rd Edition)
D.S. McLusky and M. Elliott
Oxford University Press, 2004
ISBN 0 19 853091 9

Grading:

Attendance - 10%
Presentation - 25%
Reading Quizzes - 25%
Lecture Exam - 20%
Final Exercise - 20%

Class of 2002

Some Objectives of the Course

To investigate the general ecological principles that govern the productivity and diversity of estuaries, including their physiography, hydrography, plant and animal community structure and chemistry.
To recognize the role of organisms in aquatic food webs, and in particular, to understand the ultimate fate and utilization of organic material as it is transported and transformed within estuarine systems.
To have a knowledge of the various measurements, tools, and techniques used by marine scientists to address questions and testable hypotheses relating to estuarine ecology.

Undergraduate and graduate students surveying changes in the abundance and composition of
emergent marsh plants along a transect in the Nueces marsh.

Ken Dunton: Phone (361) 749-6744, L208, MWF following lecture or by appointment.
TA's: Phone (361) 749-6701, L209, on continuous 24-hr call.
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