| Watershed Ecology with Focus on the Hudson, Spring 2009 | |||||||||
| EFB 496/sec03, EFB 796/sec05 | |||||||||
| Instructor: K. Limburg, 470-6741; Klimburg@esf.edu | |||||||||
| Date | Topic | Assignments/Remarks | Student Discussers | Notes | |||||
| I. Introduction and Background | Advice on proposal writing | ||||||||
| Advice for proposals to the National Science Foundation | |||||||||
| 15-Jan | What this course is about; Intro to Hudson River; Review of ecology | HR Book Chapt 1 | Everyone | ||||||
| Extra reading - The Stream and its Valley (Noel Hynes) | < A really nice paper to introduce why watersheds are worth studying | ||||||||
| 22-Jan | Physical aspects of the Hudson (students) | Chapter 2 (geology) | Sarah Barnes | ||||||
| Chapter 3 (physical oceanography) | Craig Tompkins | ||||||||
| Chapter 4 (Sedimentary processes) | Hilary Stern | ||||||||
| 29-Jan | KL is away | ||||||||
| 5-Feb | Biogeochemistry: N, P, C cycling | HR Book Chapts 8, 9 & 10 (productivity and nutrients)[1] | Steve Wohl (Ch.8), Katherine Mann (Ch.9), Manivone Samatmanivong (Ch.10) | ||||||
| Ideas for student projects due! | |||||||||
| II. Anatomy of a watershed | |||||||||
| 12-Feb | Upland areas | HR Book Chapts 12 (larval migrations), 16 (zoops) & 17 (SAV) | Nick Remer (Ch.12), Marysol Villanueva (Ch.16), Kelly Souva (Ch. 17) | ||||||
| 19-Feb | Wetlands and riparian zones | HR Book Chapts 5 (benthic mapping), 6 (sediment chronologies) & 20 (tidal wetlands) | Melanie Werenczak (Ch.5),Vuong Nghia (Ch.6), Sam Quinn (Ch.20) | ||||||
| 26-Feb | Tributaries & Lotic Systems | River Ecosystems (download here); HR Book Chapts 13 (diadromous fish) & 15 (tribs) | April McEwen (River Ecosystems) Jason Garritt (Ch.13), Jaime Walker (Ch.15) | ||||||
| III. Watershed assessments | |||||||||
| 5-Mar | Biological indicators; watershed health | Karr 1991 (download here); Limburg et al 2005 (on my CV website), Hong et al. (access through my CV website) | Amanda Giangiobbe (Karr 1991), Will Condon (Limburg et al), Nathan Turk (Hong et al.) | ||||||
| Research proposal progress reports are due Mar. 5 | |||||||||
| 12-Mar | SPRING BREAK | ||||||||
| 19-Mar | Being an ecological detective: the use of tracers to figure out what is going on in watersheds | HR Book Ch. 18 (Benthos in NY Harbor), 19 (Benthos in tidal FW), 21 (Alien spp) | Meredith Pochardt (Ch.18), Regan Demin (Ch.19), Michael Delillo (Ch.20) | ||||||
| IV. Issues and management | |||||||||
| 26-Mar | Fisheries | HR Book Chapts 14 (fisheries), 22 (management), and 30 (toxicity effects) | Steven Tysko (Ch.14), Theresa Burkard (Ch.22), Corrie O'Dea (Ch.30) | ||||||
| 2-Apr | Ecological effects of dams | Freeman et al. 2003 (download here); HR Book Chapt 23 (Sewage) & 29 (impacts of piers) | Sarah Sumoski (Freeman), Goodman (Ch.23), Owen Barbour (Ch.29) | ||||||
| 9-Apr | Watershed management | Swaney et al. 2006 (download here); HR Book Chapt. 24 & 28 | Tyler Talucci (Swaney), Ben Lane (Ch.24), Liyang Shao (Ch.28) | ||||||
| 16-Apr | KL is away | Work on projects | |||||||
| 23-Apr | Student project reports | FINAL PROJECTS DUE! | Everyone! | ||||||