FISH/ENVIR 330, Spring 2010
Climate Change Impacts on Marine Ecosystems

Fish 330 Lab Schedule

Lab Sections will meet in either FSH 213 (AB) or FSH 109 (AC), on occasion all sections will meet in a computer lab,  FSH 136 (AB) or FSH 207 (AC). Check the schedule for each week!

March 30: (FSH 109-Section AC or FSH 213-Section AB) Literature search exercise.

April 6: (FSH 136-SectionAB or FSH 207-SectionAC) Computer Lab: Accessing and using climate and oceanographic data on the web.

April 13: (FSH 109-Section AC or FSH 213-Section AB) Blue Planet Open Oceans and discussion.

April 20: (FSH 136-SectionAB or FSH 207-SectionAC) Computer Lab. Introduction to methods for investigating biophysical interactions.

April 27: (FSH 136-SectionAB or FSH 207-SectionAC) Computer Lab. Introduction to time series analysis.

May 4: (FSH 109-Section AC or FSH 213-Section AB) Discussion of Barber and Chavez 1986 and Lehodey et al. 1997.

May 11: (FSH 109-Section AC or FSH 213-Section AB) Discussion of Chavez et al. 2003 and Scheffer et al. 2001. Midterm review.

May 18: (FSH 109-Section AC or FSH 213-Section AB) Discussion: projecting climate change impacts on marine ecosystems.

Lab 8 Exercise: Climate Impacts Assessment Word document (pdf version).

May 25: (FSH 109-Section AC or FSH 213-Section AB) begin student presentations; video: A Sea Change

READ: Hoegh-Guldberg et al. (2007): Coral reefs under rapid climate change and ocean acidification. Science, 14: 1737-1742.

Box 4.4
Coral Reefs – Endangered by Climate Change? On page 235 from IPCC Working Group 2, Chapter 4: Ecosystems

June 1: (FSH 109-Section AC or FSH 213-Section AB) Student presentations.