Lecture | Date | Topic | Required Readings | Recommended Readings |
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9/1/08 Mo | Labor Day | |||
9/2/08 Tu | Semester Start | |||
1 | 9/2/08 Tu | Introduction to the Course | Syllabus Appendix 1: Terms (pdf), Appendix 1: Terms (html) | |
2 | 9/4/08 Th | Benthic Feeding Guilds, Functional Groups | Chapter 1 Benthic feeding guilds Jumars & Fauchald (1977) Cammen (1980) | Boudreau (1998), Fauchald & Jumars (1979), Jaksic (1981), Jumars (1993), Woodin & Jackson (1979) |
3 | 9/9/08 Tu | Benthic Feeding Guilds Continued | ||
4 | 9/11/08 Th | Benthic Feeding Guilds (end) & Bioturbation | Chapter 2 Bioturbation Boudreau (1998), Shull (2001) | Boudreau (1994), Boudreau (1998), Cammen (1980), Gallagher & Keay (1998), Jumars (1993b), Matisoff (1982), Miller (2004) Chapter 13, pp. 287-299, Rhaods (1974), Rice (1986), Shull & Yasuda (2001) |
5 | 9/16/08 Tu | Bioturbation (end) & Microphytobenthic production | Chapter 3 Gould & Gallagher 1990 | Admiraal (1984), Admiraal et al. (1982), Ludden et al (1985), Redalje & Laws (1981) |
6 | 9/18/08 | Benthic Population Processes & Community Structure | Chapter 4 Gallagher et al. (1990) | Fenchel (1977), Virnstein (1977) |
7-8 | 9/23/08 Tu 9/25/08 Th | Benthic Community Structure: Case Study 1&2, Buzzards Bay & MA Bay | Chapter 4 | |
9 | Global patterns of benthic community structure | Chapter 5 | Mills (1969), Sanders (1968), Huston (1979), Etter & Grassle (1992), Grassle & Maciolek (1992), Trueblood et al. (1994) | |
Deep-seat benthic diversity & rate processes | Jumars & Gallagher (1982), Rex et al. (2005) | Sanders (1968), Huston (1979), Etter & Grassle (1992), Grassle & Maciolek (1992) | ||
10 | Pollutioni problems in Boston & New Bedford Harbors | Chapter 6 & Chapter 7, Gallagher & Keay (1998) | Gray et al. (1988), Pearson & Rosenberg (1978), Grassle & Grassle (1974), Rhoads et al. (1978), Rosenberg (2001) | |
11 | Methods for estimating primary production using the 14C- and ) methods | Chapter 8, Peterson (1980), Falkowski & Raven (1997), Chapter 9 | Fogg (1980) pp. 24-25, Miller (2004) Chapter 3, Parsons et al. (1984a) pp. 115-120, Harrison & Platt (1980), Parsons et al. (1984b) pp. 61-66, Pregnall (1991) pp. 53-75 | |
12 | The effects of light on phytoplankton growth, P vs I curves & light adaptation | EDG Chapter 9, Harrison et al (1985), Falkowski & Raven 1997, Chapter 9 pp. 263-276, 282-288 | Miller (2004) Chapter 3, Parsons et al (1984b) pp. 61-80 | |
13 | Nutrient effects on phytoplankton growth | EDG Chapter 10, Howarth (1998) | DeBaar (1994), Goldman (1980), Miller (2004) Chapter 3 pp. 56-69, Mills (1989), Nixon & Pilson (1983), Parsons et al. (1984) pp. 100-108, Ward (2000) | |
14 | Sverdrup's critical depth concept & "Why is there a March bloom in MA bay?" | EDG Chapter 11: Sverdrup (1953), Parsons et al. (1984), Townsend & Spinrad (1986) | Evans & Parslow (1985)), Miller (2004) Chapter 1, Nelson & Smith (1991), Mills (1989) pp. 120-171, Parsons et al. (1966), Parsons et al. (1984b) pp. 87-100, Smetacek & Passow (1990) | |
15 | Upwelling, Ekman Transport, and ENSO events | EDG Chapter 12, Mann and Lazier (1996) pp. 161-212, Ryther et al (1971) | Barber & Chavez (1986), Pickard & Emery (1982) pp. 215-218 on coastal upwelling, Pond & Pickard (1978) skim pp. 81-96, MacIsaac et al. (1985), Schreiber & Schreiber (1984) | |
16 | Factors controlling primary production on continental shelves | EDG Chapter 13 & Chapter 14, Eppley et al. (1979), Riley (1967) | Lunven et al. (2005) | |
17 | Primary production in Boston Harbor & MA Bay | EDG Chapter 14, Cole & Colern (1987), McGillicuddy et al. 2003 | Adams et al. (1992), Cullen (1982), Haury et al. (1983), Kelly (1997), Kelly & Doerling (1997), Mann & Lazier (1996), Lunven et al. (2005), Nixon (1995), Officer & Ryther (1977), Townsend (1997) | |
18 | Upwelling & El NiƱo | Upwelling, Ekman Transport, and ENSO events | EDG Chapter 12, Mann and Lazier (1996) pp. 161-212, Ryther et al. (1971) | |
19 | Primary production in oligotrophic gyres | Chapter 15, Platt et al. (1989) | Eppley (1980), Gleskes & Kraay (1984), Grande et al. (1989), Laws et al. (1990), Venrick (1990) | |
20 | Satellite remote sensing | Gallagher Chapter 16, Perry (1986), Behrenfield & Falkowski (1997) | Campbell & O'Reilly (1988), Eppley et al. (1985), Platt (1986), Platt et al. (1988), Platt & Sathendrayath (1988) | |
21 | Zooplankton grazing mechanisms | EDG Chapter 17, Koehl & Strickler (1981), Miller Chapter 7 | Banse (1992), Frost (1980a) pp. 465-491, Purcell (1977), Price (1988), Welschmeyer & Lorenzen (1985) | |
22 | Size-selective predation & competition, Virtual copepod page: for Jaffe, Fowler & Yen Euchaeta movies | Gallagher Chapter 20, Brooks & Dodson (1965) | Greene (1983), Kerfoot (1975), Neill (1975), Paine (1966) | |
23 | Vertical Migration, Playing cards for the vertical migration game, Scorecard & rules for the vertical migration game | Chapter 22, Ohman et al. (1983) | Frost (1988), Gliwicz (1986), McLaren (1974), Ohman (1990) | |
24 | The microbial loop, Factors controlling bacterial production and standing stocks | Gallagher Chapter 23 | Azam et al. (1983), Duclow (2000), Fenchel (1988), Fuhrman & Azam (1982), Hoppe et al. (2002), Jumars et al. (1989, Jumars (1993) pp. 179-197, Miller Chapter 5, Riemann & Bell (1990) | |
25 | Primary production in nitrate rich seas | Gallagher Chapter 17, Boyd et al. (2000), Morel & Price (2003) | Boyd et al. (1996), Coale et al. (1996), Evans & Parslow (1985), Frost (1987, 1991), Martin & Fitzwater (1988), Miller et al. (1991), Parsons et al. (1966) | |
26 | Numerical models for the standard form of pelagic theory, North Sea ecocystem model | Steele (1974), Landry (1976), Gallagher Chapter 25 | ||
27 | Last class: New England coastal ecosystem modeling, Narragansett Bay and Hydroqual MA Bay eutrophication model | Chapter 26, Kremer & Nixon (1978) [3 chapters] read 1-5 especially pp. 23-59 | Frost (1980b), Kremer & Nixon (1978), Mills (1989), Steele (1976) |