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Biology 210 Fall 2003

Marine Biology Wellesley College





MARINE BIOLOGY
BIO 210 Fall 2003
GENERAL INFORMATION


STAFF:

Professor: Marianne V. Moore (Rm. 394, X3098)

Office Hours: Mon 11:30 - 12:30 pm

Tues 3:00 – 4:30 pm

Laboratory Instructor: Dr. Simone Helluy
Laboratory Assistant: Jakobina Arch

TEXTS:

Nybakken, J.W. 2001. Marine Biology: An Ecological Approach, 5th Edition. Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers, Reading, MA. 481 p.


Gosner,K.L. 1978. A Field Guide to the Atlantic Seashore. Houghton Mifflin, Boston. 329 p.

Reserve readings and videotapes will be on reserve in the Science Library (see attached list)



LECTURES:

Tues and Fri 11:10 - 12:20 am in Rm. 364 Science Center



LABORATORIES:

Labs will occur in Rm 161 unless otherwise indicated (see attached lab schedule) on Thursdays (1:00 – 4:30 pm) & Fridays from (1:15 – 5:15 pm). Lab work consists of plant and animal identification, dissections, and field trips with sample collection and enumeration, data analysis, interpretation, and discussion.



NOTE: One weekend field trip is scheduled. This trip will occur on Saturday September 20 (Thurs & Fri lab sections together).

EXAMINATIONS AND GRADING:

Grades will be based on a midterm (25%) and final exam (25%), a research paper

(20%) and oral presentation (5%), a lab practical (15%), and lab

questions (10%).


LECTURE SCHEDULE
WEEK DATE LECTURE TOPIC READING

(Nybakken)

__________________________________________________________

1 Sep 2 Oceanography I: properties of water & p. 1-10 &

seawater; nutrients & dissolved gases RR

1 Sep 5 Oceanography II: zonation & geomorphology p. 10-34 &

temperature and thermal stratification RR

2 Sep 9 Oceanography III: water movements; p. 10-34 &

larval ecology video (see

options)
2 Sep 12 Plankton I: Phytoplankton--diversity; p. 38-70 & growth and production; nuisance algal RR

blooms
3 Sep 16 Plankton II: Zooplankton--diversity; p. 70-89,

grazing; vertical migration, patchiness RR
3 Sep 19 Plankton III: Picoplankton--diversity; p. 82-89,

the microbial loop & the new pelagic RR, &

foodweb slides

4 Sep 23 Nekton I: cetaceans; morphology, sound Chap. 3, RR

production, social behavior, migrations & video

& movements ('Whales')


4 Sep 26 Nekton II: bony fishes, sharks and rays, Chap. 3, RR

foraging behavior and population biology of sharks

5 Sept 30 Deep-Sea Biology I: salient habitat Chap. 4 & RR

features; adaptations of benthic &

midwater organisms

5 Oct 3 Deep-Sea Biology II: Benthic biodiversity; Chap. 4 &

maintenance of species diversity video

6 Oct 7 Deep-Sea Biology III: chemosynthetic Chap. 4 & RR

communities at hydrothermal vents &

hydrocarbon seeps; organism dispersal.


6 Oct 10 MIDTERM EXAM
7 Oct 14 NO CLASS - Fall Break
7 Oct 17 Intertidal ecology I: rocky shores; p. 236-276

environmental conditions; zonation; & RR

keystone species and effects.

8 Oct 21 Intertidal ecology II: sandy and p. 276-300

muddy bottom communities & Chap. 7 &

video
8 Oct 24 Estuaries and Salt Marshes: physical Chap. 8 &

characteristics; biota; estuarine RR (two

processes, productivity, and threat articles)

of eutrophication
9 Oct 28 Guest Lecture:Management of Coastal p. 485-486

Marine Communities and Impacts of Invading

Species”, Dr. Megan Tyrrell, Fellow, Coastal

Services Center of the Massachusetts Office

of Coastal Zone Management


9 Oct 31 Shallow-water subtidal I: kelp p. 179-218,

& seagrass communities; RR

biological interaction and community

structure


10 Nov 4 NO CLASS - Tanner Conference
10 Nov 7 NO CLASS - Dr. Moore is out-of-town p. 370-400 &

Chap 10 &

video
11 Nov 11 Coral Reef Communities I: limiting p. 370-400

factors; reef zonation; coral foraging & RR

modes, interactions, & productivity

11 Nov 14 Coral Reef Communities II: hypotheses p. 400-416

for fish diversity; importance of herbivory

12 Nov 18 Fisheries I: commercial species; fishery p. 458-474

techniques; harvesting theory
12 Nov 21 Fisheries II: fisheries management; causes p. 458-474

of stock collapse; fisheries restoration

13 Nov 25 Mariculture: commercial species; p. 474-476

mariculture techniques; environmental

impacts
14 Dec 2 Protecting Marine Biodiversity: Threats p. 476-489

(nutrients, toxins, oil, exotic species); & RR

protection strategies (marine reserves)

FIRST DRAFT - RESEARCH PAPER DUE IN LECTURE


14 Dec 5 Student presentations

PEER REVIEWS DUE IN LECTURE


15 Dec 9 Student presentations
15 Dec 9 FINAL DRAFT OF RESEARCH PAPER DUE @ 5:00 pm
NOTE: RR = Reserve Reading at main desk in Science Library or on E-reserve. See list on next page.

RESERVE READINGS & VIDEOS
Week Date Title

______________________________________________________________________________

1 Sept 2-5 "Biogeochemistry I: Solutes in the oceans"

(Colinvaux 1986)


Ecology chapters from an Introductory Biology

text (e.g. Chapters 53 & 54 from Campbell & Reece, 2002.



Biology )
2 Sept 9-12 "Ocean of Light"--video from Atlantic Realm series

focusing on organisms of the photic zone



OR

"Ocean Drifters"--video featuring zooplankton encountered by a young loggerhead turtle during its crossing of the Atlantic.
2 Sept 14 "Red tides" (Anderson 1994)
3 Sept 16 "The iron man's revenge" (Kunzig 1994)

3 Sept 19 "A world apart" (Wray 2001)

Zooplankton images--view on course conference
4 Sept 23 “Measuring success in conservation” (Geber et al. 2000)"
"Whales!"-- video highlighting whales and their

changing relationship with humans; rare footage showing

mating behavior of endangered right whales.
4 Sept 26 "The great white’s ways" (Glenn 1999)

5 Sept 30 – Oct 3 “Transparent animals” (Johnsen 2000)



"The Abyss"--video from Atlantic Realm series featuring animals of the deep sea. Contains footage of marine animals

never before seen alive!

6 Oct 7 "Hydrothermal-vent communities of the deep sea"

(Tunnicliffe 1992)



Reserve Readings (Cont)
Week Date Title

______________________________________________________________________________


7 Oct 17 "Give me your shelled, your clawed" (Vermeij 1994)
8 Oct 21 "Margins of the Land"--video from David

Attenborough's Living Planet series. Excellent introduction

to estuarine, sandy and rocky intertidal, and mangrove

communities


8 Oct 24 "The ecology of a New England salt marsh" (Bertness, 1992)
"Bringing back the Chesapeake" (Boyle 1999)
9 Oct 31 “Turbulent world of moss animals” (Reed 1991)

10 Nov 4-7 "City of Coral"—NOVA video presenting an excellent

introduction to the major organisms of the coral reef and their

diel activity patterns. Rare footage of coral reproduction.


11 Nov 11-14 “Climate change, human impacts, and the resilience of

coral reefs” (Hughes et al. 2003)

12 Nov 18-21 "A tale of two fisheries" (Tierney 2000)
“Historical overfishing and the recent collapse of coastal

ecosystems” (Jackson, et al. 2001)


13 – 15 Nov 25 –Dec 9 No readings (Work on research paper, oral presentation)


Reference List for above Reserve Readings

Anderson, D.M. 1994. Red tides. Scientific American 271:62-68.


Bertness, M.D. 1992. The ecology of a New England salt marsh. American Scientist 80: 260-268.
Boyle, R.H. 1999. Bringing back the Chesapeake. Audubon 99 (Mar – Apr):46-53.
Colinvaux, P. 1986. Chapter 18: Biogeochemistry I: Solutes in the oceans. Ecology. Wiley, New York.
Geber, L.R., D.P. DeMaster and S.P. Roberts. 2000. Measuring success in conservation. American Scientist 88:316-324.
Hughes, T.P., A.H. Baird, D.R. Bellwood, M.Card, S.R. Connolly, C. Folke, R. Grosberg, O. Hoegh-Guldberg, J.B.C. Jackson, J. Kleyp0as, J.M. Lough, P. Marshall, M. Nystrom, S.R. Palumbi, J.M. Pandolfi, B.Rosen, J. Roughgarden. 2003. Climate change, human impacts, and the resilience of coral reefs. Science 301:929-933.

Jackson, J.B.C., M. X. Kirby, W. H. Berger, K. A. Bjorndal, L.W. Botsford, B.J. Bourque, R.H. Bradbury, R.Cooke, J. Erlandson, J.A. Estes, T.P. Hughes, S. Kidwell, C. B. Lange, H. S. Lenihan, J.M. Pandolfi, C.H. Peterson, R.S. Steneck, M. J. Tegner, and R.R. Warner. 2001. Historical overfishing and the recent collapse of coastal ecosystems. Science 293:629-638.




Johnsen, S. 2000. Transparent animals. Scientific American 282:80-89.

Kunzig, R. 1994. The iron man's revenge. Discover 15:32-35.


Martin, Glen. 1999. The great white’s ways. Discover 20:54-61
Reed, C.G. 1991. Turbulent world of moss animals. Natural History 4/1991:41-47.
Tierney, J. 2000. A tale of two fisheries. The New York Times Magazine. Aug 27, 2000: 38-43.
Tunnicliffe, V. 1992. Hydrothermal-vent communities of the deep sea. American Scientist 80:336-349.
Vermeij, G.J. 1994. Give me your shelled, your clawed. Natural History 103:32-39.
Wray, G.A. 2001. A world apart. Natural History 110:52-63.

LABORATORY SCHEDULE

DATE TOPIC LOCATION



11 & 12 Sept Stratification of Lakes & Oceans Rm 161 Field trip- Sampling on Lake Waban. L. Waban

Wear clothes that can get wet!



18 & 19 Sept Introduction to Library Resources Rm 161

2:30-4:00 pm


20 Sept Intro to Oceanography Boston

SATURDAY Field trip-Arrive @ UMass-Boston Harbor Harbor

at 8:30 a.m.!! Both Thurs & Fri lab sections

will go to sea together on this research cruise.

Return to Wellesley ~ 12:30-1 pm.


25 & 26 Sept Plankton Rm 161
2 & 3 Oct Fish Ecomorphology Rm 161

9 & 10 Oct Estuaries & Tidal Marshes Plum Island

Field trip--meet in Rm 161 at 1:00 pm sharp! MA

Low tide at 18:07 pm (Thurs) and 18:46 pm (Fri) (Estuary)

Will return ~ 5:30-6:30 pm.

16 & 17 Oct Intertidal Invertebrates Rm 161

Independent Project Proposals


23 & 24 Oct Rocky Intertidal Zonation Nahant,

Field trip-meet in Rm 161 at 1:00 pm sharp! MA (Rocky

Low tide at 16:07 pm (Thurs) and 16:56 pm (Fri) Seashore)



Will return ~5-5:30 pm.
30 & 31 Oct Molluscs and Echinoderms Rm 161

6 & 7 Nov Marine Arthropods Rm 161
13 & 14 Nov Lab Practical Rm 161
20 & 21 Nov Independent Project

27 & 28 Nov THANKSGIVING break; No lab!
4 & 5 Dec Student Oral Presentations Rm 161
Self-Scheduled: New England Aquarium OR Whale Watch

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