Biology Department

Students enrolled in Population and Community Biology elect one of four laboratory sections. Lab sections meet on Monday and Wednesday afternoons from 2-5 PM and include computer simulations, hands-on laboratory exercises, and field trips.

The lab schedule IS NOW finalized for 2014!

2014 Lab Syllabus, including TA contact information

Week
Date
Title/Handout
Links
Data Sets
Notes and Background Reading
1
1/20

Biology 208 Handout
(print this out and read it first)

pdf file, word file

(one handout for both weeks)

SimBio Finches and Evolution
Lab handout
(do not print out)
pdf file

Charles DarwinGalapagos Islands

  "What Darwin Never Saw" video in Rooke 116
2
1/27
 

 

 

3
2/3

Cladistics - Morphological
Phylogenetic Systematics -

(pdf) (word)

Vertebrates.nex

Primate worksheet.nex

Intro slides
4
2/10

Cladistics - Molecular Systematics: Influenza Evolution -
(pdf) (word)

NIH Influenza Resources

Tree of Life Web

ReidDNA.nex

ReidAA.nex

Journal article on resurrecting the 1918 flu that forms the basis for the Week 4 lab.
5
2/17

Bioenergetics I

(pdf)

   
6
2/24

Statistics: ANOVA

(pdf1, pdf2)

   
7
3/3

Bioenergetics II


 
3/10
Spring Break
   
8 3/17

Human Demography:
Field Trip to Cemetery

(pdf, word)

Handouts now updated for week of 3/17/2014

Human Population Growth
Outside Lab, Rain or Shine -
Dress Appropriately

Monday Final Data

Wednesday Final Data

Life Table PowerPoint Presentation
9
3/24
Population Ecology: Field Trip to Fish Research Center

Northeast Fishery Center Website

Map of NEFC Location

   
10
3/31

Landscape Change &
Restoration Ecology:
Montandon Marsh
Field Trip

Outside Lab, Rain or Shine - Dress Appropriately for Weather and Dense Vegetation

Lewisburg Weather
Weather Rain Cloud

Penn State Cooperative Wetlands Center

Merrill W. Linn Land and Waterways Conservancy


Click here to learn more about conservation easements.


 

Journal article about the Montandon Wetlands.

Journal article about creating wetlands from old mines.

11
4/7

Environmental Issues Oral Presentations

(Guidelines)

(Oral Rubrics, Paper Rubrics)

   
12
4/14

Environmental Issues Oral Presentations

(Guidelines)

(Oral Rubrics, Paper Rubrics)

   
13
4/21

Outside Lab, Rain or Shine - Dress Appropriately

Forest

Directions to Tall Timbers

Powerpoint Photo Albums:

2003
2004
2005

 

Journal article about succession at the Tall Timbers Natural Area

Journal article about acid precipitation and the geology of our area

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