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 "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 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 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 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 Bucknell University Biology Department Home Page
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
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
Cladistics - Morphological Phylogenetic Systematics - (pdf) (word)
Vertebrates.nex
Primate worksheet.nex
Cladistics - Molecular Systematics: Influenza Evolution - (pdf) (word)
NIH Influenza Resources
Tree of Life Web
ReidDNA.nex
ReidAA.nex
Bioenergetics I
(pdf)
Statistics: ANOVA
(pdf1, pdf2)
Bioenergetics II
Human Demography: Field Trip to Cemetery
(pdf, word)
Handouts now updated for week of 3/17/2014
Monday Final Data
Wednesday Final Data
Northeast Fishery Center Website
Map of NEFC Location
Landscape Change & Restoration Ecology: Montandon Marsh Field Trip
Outside Lab, Rain or Shine - Dress Appropriately for Weather and Dense Vegetation
Lewisburg Weather
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.
Environmental Issues Oral Presentations
(Guidelines)
(Oral Rubrics, Paper Rubrics)
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
Bucknell University Biology Department Home Page