Click on the titles below to see handouts for labs. Note that there are also links you can follow to see handouts from previous semesters.
For Summer IA 2005
Mark-recapture sampling lab (handout to support lecture material and assignment).
Detecting ecological patterns - (for Thurs 26 May; notebook carbons are due at the beginning of class on Thurs 9 June) Click here (not yet!) to get the raw data from other groups.
Guidelines for Field &
Laboratory Notebooks
Some other views about lab notebooks (You
should take a look at these pages, too.)
Handouts about designing experiments and doing statistics
(password-protected Adobe Acrobat files):
Ecological Sampling
Data Analysis
Interpreting Statistics
Ideas for group projects/independent research projects (very general)
Guidelines & Grading criteria for poster presentations
FROM Fall 2004
>> FYI: An obituary notice
for Claude Shannon (of "Shannon Index" fame)
>> Handout to accompany 'Plant Politics' video.
(for Tues 14 Dec)
>> Optimal foraging lab (for Thurs 11 November;
your notebook carbons for this lab are due at the beginning of class on Tues
23 November)
>> Simulating population growth using
Microsoft Excel
(for Tues 26 October; click
here to see the 25-pt written assignment you are to complete using your
spreadsheet.) Your spreadsheet file (by e-mail), notebooks and answers to assigned
questions are due by the beginning of class on Thurs 4 November.
>> OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENT: Using Excel - An
exercise that introduces you to the basics of using Microsoft Excel® spreadsheets to
manipulate and analyze data, and to create scatterplots. Note that this is an ungraded assignment, but we will be using
Excel in a lab on Tues 26 Oct, so it is important that you learn the basics of
constructing a spreadsheet prior to that date; in addition, knowing how to use a
spreadsheet program can make your life a lot easier when you have to deal with a
lot of numbers in any situation!
>> Mark-recapture sampling lab; due date for notebooks
TBA.
>> Handout to accompany "Baja
California" video (for Thurs 30 Sept)
From Fall 2003
Detecting ecological patterns
- Part 1 (for Thurs 4 Sept)
Graphs and Statistical results of a similar lab from Spring 1999 (done by me
using SYSTAT®,
a statistical software package)
From Previous semesters
Identifying patterns and Exploring data (Spring 2003)
Specific analyses and graphs to do/generate
for the Identifying Patterns lab (Spring 2003).
Design EcoBeaker group experiment
Quadrat sampling
Model scientific paper (a paper written
by a student on the mealworm/mark-recapture lab in Spring 1998, provided as an example of what your scientific paper
should generally look like)
Model Answers for Mark-recapture
assignment
Barnacles & Tides - EcoBeaker lab
Model Answers for Barnacles assignment
Cemetery demography lab
There will be a written assignment based on
this lab.
Click here for instructions on how to
plot multiple lines on a single graph using Excel.
Computer simulations of population growth
(instruction guide)
Population simulations assignment
Computer simulations assignment
Model Answers for Computer-simulations
assignment
Optimal foraging lab
"Predator avoidance in aquatic systems"
EcoBeaker lab
Estimating species diversity of communities (for Mon 12 April; you will be
required to submit notebook carbons for this lab, which are due at
the beginning of class (i.e., 2:00 !) on Mon 26 April.
Hawaii video ("Strangers in
Paradise")
OPTIONAL written assignment
for lab (summary/critique of a paper from the primary literature; due
no later than 4:00 pm Weds 25 April. This page also has info about
how your lab grades will be weighted in calculating your final average for the
course.)