Biological Sciences 350SE - Topics in Biological Sciences: 'Stream Ecology: Keeping Up with Running Water with Laboratory'

This course will focus on the processes and functions of streams and rivers and the basics of aquatic life in flowing water. Lectures will be centered on primary scientific literature and topics relating local hydrology, biogeochemistry, and species and community interactions, within a context of human impacts and climate change. Lab sections will be field- and laboratory-based, including methodologies for sample collection in campus streams, species identification and observation, and water quality assessment. Final group research projects will apply course knowledge and skills, with student presentations of experimental or observational findings in the context of core principles and key concepts.

Prereq: 8 credits at the 200 level in Biological Sciences.