Menge Lab Teaching

	Ecosystem Ecology & Global Change EEEB GU4111 This course provides an introduction to ecosystem ecology, "The study of interactions between organisms and their environment as an integrated system." Topics include primary production, carbon storage, nutrient cycling, and ecosystem feedbacks to climate change. Humans have such a large influence on present-day ecosystems that anthropogenic global change forms a major part of the course. By the end of the course, students are well versed in the basics of ecosystem ecology and have exposure to some current areas of research.
	Theoretical Ecology EEEB GU4150 This course provides an introduction to theoretical ecology. Topics include population, community, ecosystem, disease, and evolutionary ecology. Lectures cover classic and current concepts and mathematical approaches. The numerical analysis laboratory covers computational tools for numerical and graphical analysis of the models we cover in lecture, using R. By the end of the course, students are well versed in the basics of theoretical ecology and are able to read theoretical ecology literature, analyze and simulate mathematical models, and construct their own models.
	Fundamentals of Ecology EEEB GR6112 By the end of the course students have a graduate-level understanding of fundamental ecological ideas, principles, and approaches; and have read much of the classic ecological primary literature. (Co-taught by Diuk-Wasser and Menge)

Menge Lab, E3B department, Columbia University
dm2972[at]columbia[dot]edu
10th floor, Schermerhorn Extension
1200 Amsterdam Ave., New York, NY, 10027