Breaking News!
Exam 3 will be given from 4:00 - 6:00 on Thurs 30 June. Click here to see a list of the material that will be covered on the exam, and review materials that should help you prepare for it.
The species diversity assignment that I sent to y'all by e-mail is due at the beginning of class on Tues 28 June. (Please send me an e-mail if you were not in class to receive the assignment and data sets.)
>> FYI: An obituary
notice for Claude Shannon (of "Shannon Index" fame)
Old News (too late to use!)
Exam 2 will be given from 4:00 - 6:00 on Thurs 16 June. Click here to see a list of the material that will be covered on the exam, and review materials that should help you prepare for it.
The problem sets on Mark-Recapture sampling and Demography that I assigned in class on Thurs 9 June are due at the beginning of class on Tues 14 June. Your scores for each problem set will be converted into a score out of 25 pts. (Please send me an e-mail if you were not in class to receive the assignment and data sets.) Click here to see the lab handout on the mark-recapture technique.
Exam 1 will be given from 4-5:50 on Tuesday 7 June. Click here to see a list of the material that will be covered on the exam, and review materials that should help you prepare for it.
The handout describing the requirements of the first lab (Detecting Patterns and Analyzing Data) is available by clicking here. The compiled (and transformed if necessary) data are available by clicking here. The notebook carbons for this lab are due at the beginning of class on Thurs 9 June.
Please print out the following files before class on Thurs 24 May: Guidelines for Field & Laboratory Notebooks, Ecological Sampling, Data Analysis, and Interpreting Statistics. Note that the latter three are password-protected Adobe Acrobat files; I will provide the password in class. Also, because they are relatively large, I suggest that you print them from a computer with a fast internet connection (such as one in any of the computer labs on campus).
From Fall 2004
Exam 4 will be given Thurs 16 Dec from . Click here to see a list of the material that will be covered on the exam, and review materials that should help you prepare for it.
Exam 3 will be given on Thurs 18 November from 3:00-4:40. Click here to see a list of the material that will be covered on the exam, and review materials that should help you prepare for it.
The handout for the Optimal Foraging lab that we will conduct in class on Thurs 11 November is available by clicking here. The notebook carbons for this lab will be due at the beginning of class on Tues 23 November.
The assignment for the "Simulating Population growth using Excel" lab is available by clicking here. The spreadsheet file, written assignment and lab notebook entries are due at the beginning of class on Thurs 4 Nov.
Click here (link has been removed) to see the answer key to Exam 2. It is a password protected file - use the password you received via e-mail previously.
Exam 2 will be given Thurs 21 Oct from 3:00-4:40. Click here to see a list of the material that will be covered on the exam, and review materials that should help you prepare for it.
Click here (link has been removed) to see the answer key to Exam 1. It is a password protected file - you will receive the password via e-mail.
The handout for the mark-recapture lab is available by clicking here. Note that although we worked with grasshoppers in the detention basin on campus (rather than with brine shrimp in beakers, as described in the handout), the handout is relevant in all other respects. Notebooks entries for this lab will be due at the beginning of class on Tues 19 Oct.
The handout to accompany the Baja California video (on Thurs 30 Sept) is available by clicking here.
Exam 1 will be given Thurs 23 Sept from 3:00-4:40. Click here to see a list of the material that will be covered on the exam, and review materials that should help you prepare for it.
The handout describing the requirements of the first lab (Detecting Patterns and Analyzing Data) is available by clicking here. The raw data of all of the groups (some of which you will need in order to complete the assignment) is available by clicking here. The notebook carbons for this lab are due no later than the beginning of class on Tues 21 Sept.