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.

Lab Syllabus

Lab Instructors and Student Assistants

Week Date	Title/Handout	Links	Data Sets	Notes and Background Reading	Grader (emails avail. at link above)
1 1/25	Darwin 's Finches Evolution Model (pdf)(word) (one handout for both weeks)	EvolutionLab online		"What Darwin Never Saw" video in Rooke 116	Laura Grieneisen
2 2/1		EvolutionLab online		"Galapagos: Islands in Time" talk by Dr. Abrahamson in Rooke 116 Galapagos PowerPpt	Corinne Raczek
3 2/8	Cladistics - Morphological Phylogenetic Systematics - (pdf) (word)		Vertebrates.nex Primate worksheet.nex	Intro slides	Lindsay Hower
4 2/15	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.	Joe Donohoe
5 2/22	Ecological and Environmental Debates	Debate library resource page		"What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire" video in Rooke 116	n.a.
6 3/1	Ecological and Environmental Debates				n.a
7 3/8	Sampling Theory and Forest Succession in Virtual Forests (pdf) (word)	EcoSampler online		Sampling introduction Journal article on the EcoSampler learning object	Laura Grieneisen
3/15	Spring Break
8 3/22	Human Demography: Field Trip to Cemetery all links now updated for 2010 Outside Lab, Rain or Shine - Dress Appropriately		Monday Google Spreadsheet Monday Final Data Wednesday Google Spreadsheet Wednesday Final Data	Life Table PowerPoint Presentation	Corinne Raczek
9 3/29	Population Growth & Competition Theory & Predator-Prey Interactions Simulation Model	PopulationEcologyLab on line			Lindsay Hower
10 4/5	Foraging Theory & Predator-Prey Interactions Outside Biology Building Rain or Shine - Dress Appropriately	Lewisburg Weather	Monday Data (xlsx) Wednesday Data (xlsx)		Joe Donohoe
11 4/12	Landscape Patterns: Shamokin Mountain Field Trip Outside Lab, Rain or Shine - Dress Appropriately	Shamokin Mountain Aerial View		Journal Article about Community Analysis of PA Ridge & Valley Province Cite as: Nowacki, G.J. and M.D. Abrams. 1991. Community and edaphic analysis of mixed oak forests in the ridge and valley province of central Pennsylvania. Eighth Central Hardwood Forest Conference (L. McCormick and K. Gottschalk, ed.) pp. 247-260.	Laura Grieneisen
12 4/19	Landscape Change & Restoration Ecology: Montandon Marsh Field Trip Outside Lab, Rain or Shine - Dress Appropriately for Weather and Dense Vegetation	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.	Joe Donohoe
13 4/26	Old-growth Communities & Forest Succession: Tall Timbers Field Trip Outside Lab, Rain or Shine - Dress Appropriately	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	n.a.