Biosphere 2 Syllabus
Week 3: June 18-June 24, 2001
Key:
  Shared Activity day, common to all sites
  Full day for working on Independent Projects
[ Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday ]
 
Monday, June 18 2001
  Section: B: Biotic Processes
  Modules: 7: Consumers: Herbivory, Predation, and Parasitism
8: Decomposers: The End and The Beginning
 
  AM: 8:00-9:00
Lecture 7/8: Consumers and Decomposers
Week 2 Wrap-up Discussion: Modules 4-6

9:00-1:00
Excercise 7/8:  Food Web Modeling

  • Introduction to Stella
  • A Sonoran Food Web (Stella)
 
  PM: 1:00-3:00
Lunch/Siesta

3:00-5:30
Excercise 7/8:

  • Finalize food web model (Stella)
  • Discussion of results
(6:00-8:00 Food run)
 
  Note: Pick-up van end of day
Early morning depature next day for all-day trip
 
Tuesday, June 19 2001
  Section: B: Biotic Processes
  Module: 9: Light and Temperature — Day 1
10: Geology and Soils — Day 1 
 
  AM/PM: 6:30am-8:00pm — Field Trip
Santa Catalina Mountains
 [Notes: Wear boots & hat.  Bring lunch and dinner, snacks, water. 
             Bring extra layers for cooler elevation, NHSD book, journal, sunscreen
             Cooler available in van.]

Exercises 9 & 10: 

  • Changes in Plant and Insect Communities along Elevational Gradients
  • Soils in Different Environments (Shared Activity 2)
Guest Lecture (Mt. Lemmon Hwy): Steve Slaff
  Geology of the Santa Catalinas
  Development of Soils
 
  Note: Van all day
Shared Activity 2: Soil profiles and productivity across ecosystems
 
Wednesday, June 20 2001
  Section: C: Abiotic Processes
  Module: 9: Light and Temperature — Day 2
10: Geology and Soils — Day 2
 
  AM: 7:00-8:00 — Field (B2 Campus)
Exercise 10:  8:00-10:30 — Dry Lab
  • Analysis of Mt. Lemmon and B2 soils
11:00-12:00 — PC Lab
Guest Lecture:  Tony Burgess (B2C)
  The Apacherian Shrub Savanna
 
12:00-1:00
Exercise 10: 
  • Write-up of soil results
 
  PM: 1:00-3:00
Lunch/Siesta

3:00-6:00
Exercises 9 and 10

  • Finalize Ex 10 soils results for sharing
  • Share Ex 10 data with other SEE-U site
  • Analysis of Santa Catalina transect data (Ex 9)
 
  Note: Shared Activity 2: Soil profiles and productivity across ecosystems
 
Thursday, June 21 2001
  Section: C: Abiotic Processes
  Module: 9: Light and Temperature — Day 3
10: Geology and Soils — Day 3
 
  AM: 8:00-10:00 — PC Lab
Exam 2: Modules 4-6
 Open Notes.  You may refer to your notes and journal — anything you have 
composed yourself.  Not allowed are printouts or extracted material from the web, 
books, and the like.

10:00-1:00
Exercise 10:

  • Download Ex Soils results from other SEE-U site
  • Discuss and writeup cross-site analysis (Powerpoint)
  • Ex 10 Presentations
 
  PM: 1:00-3:00
Lunch/Siesta

3:00-6:00
Exercise 9

  • Write-up analysis of Santa Catalina transect data
  • Ex 9 presentations
Week 3 Wrap-up Discussion: Modules 7-10 

(6:00-8:00 Food run)
 
  Note: Shared Activity 2: Soil profiles and productivity across ecosystems

 
 
Friday, June 22 2001
    Independent Projects 
 
7:00pm
Class Dinner — Gather at instructor's residence
Desert literature readings
  Notes: Complete data collection for Independent Project this week
Instructors available for assistance with independent projects 
 
Saturday, June 23 2001
    Independent Projects 
 
  Notes: Instructors available for assistance with independent projects
 
Sunday, June 24 2001
    Independent Projects — Wrap-up of Data Collection
 
  PM 7:00pm
Updated write-up of project due: 
  • Updated Introduction and Methods (include references)
  • Summaries of data collected and brief discussion of those data
Notes: Instructors available for assistance with independent projects


T. Kittel
rev. 5/27/01, 6/13/01, 6/21/01