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Class		Topic	Wednesday Laboratory Activity	Related WWW Sites	Readings & Questions
1	Aug. 26	Course Introduction Life In Water	Sampling Equipment
2	Aug. 28	Ecology of Aquatic Communities			Townsend, Primer in Ecology (Hand out)
3-4	Tues Sep 2-4	Stream-River Continuum Stream Ecology	Streams Survey I		Cummins Obernborfer et al.
5 6	Tues 9 11	Exam I Lake Ecosystem Overview Macrophytes	Streams Survey II		none Zhu et al. (Brad Cohen)
7-8	Tues 16 18	Macrophyte Ecology Phytoplankton/Zooplantkon	Conesus Lake Survey I Read State of Coneus Lake Executive Summary		Gross et al. Makarewicz et al. (Rob Wasserman)
9-10	Tues 23 25	Lake Zooplankton/Fish Darling Marine Center	Travel to Darling Marine Center	Darling Center Web Site Alewives in the Damariscotta River Alewives in the Great Lakes	Lubchenco; (Bosch) Elner & Vadas (Clemment Nsiah)
11-12	Sep 30 Oct. 2	No Class Lake Ecosystem Dynamics (see 9/23 notes)	Parameters Analysis	EPA Invasive species in the Great Lakes DEC report on Finger Lakes Water Quality Finger Lakes Inst. Water Quality Data	Schindler 2006 (Eric Olderstein)
13-14	Tues 7 - 9	Presentations (2) Invasive Species Presentations (4)	Stream Analysis	NOAA Study of Microcystis Blooms	Vanderploeg et al. (Michael Wheeler)
15	Tues 14	Fall Break	Maine Zonation Analysis
16	Thurs 16	Exam II
17	Tues 21 Thurs 23	Estuaries and Mangroves Rocky Intertidal	Conesus Lake Survey II	OceanLink Intertidal Field Guide	Mumby et al (Nathan Kaplan) TBD (Thomas Suchy)
18	Tues 28	Rocky II		SUNY Stony Brook Rocky Shores Site	Read Menge et al (Jordan Gross)
19	Thrs 30	Coral Reefs	Chl a analysis	Intro to Coral Reefs Conservation of Caribbean Reefs	Baker 2001 Baker 2004
20	Nov 4	Coral Reefs		NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program The Coral Reef Alliance	Hughes (Orel Katz)
21	6	Kelp Forests	Zooplankton		Estes et al. (Yan Fon Mei)
22	Tues 11	Kelp Forests		See Shifting Baselines Web Site	Jackson et al. (Chris Smith)
23	13	Water Colum	Nutrients		Anderson (Shazia Sohrawardy)
25	Tues 18	Water Column			Blain (Joy Sutera) Due: Topic Selection
26	20	Deep Sea	Bacteria In Waters		Bako & Smith 2003 (Lindsay Dressel)
27 29	Tue 25 27	Exam III Thanksgiving Break	Thanksgiving Break
30	Dec 2-4	Integration / Class Discussion	Maine Make Up Lab
31	Dec 16	Final Exam 8-11 AM