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NRE 509: ECOLOGY: Science of Context and Interaction

Professors:

J. David Allan

Professor, School of Natural Resources and Environment
Dana 2066, ude.hcimu|nallad#ude.hcimu|nallad

William S. Currie

Associate Professor, School of Natural Resources and Environment
Dana 2532, ude.hcimu|eirrucw#ude.hcimu|eirrucw

Graduate Student Instructors for 2009:

Kyung Seo Park, SNRE PhD student
Office Hours: Wed. 2-4pm in 2544 DANA
ude.hcimu|krapoce#ude.hcimu|krapoce

Thomas Neeson, SNRE PhD student
Office Hours: Mon. 3-4pm
Tues. 10-11am
Wed. 1-2pm in 2544 DANA
ude.hcimu|noseen#ude.hcimu|noseen

Allie Schafer, SNRE MS student
Office Hours: Thurs. 11-1pm in 2536 DANA
ude.hcimu|hcseilla#ude.hcimu|hcseilla

Overview

The natural science core course provides a broad foundational treatment of concepts and processes that operate in ecological systems. It covers interactions among water, soils, the atmosphere, and basic life processes (respiration and photosynthesis) in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, including the principles of energy flow and the cycling of matter. It covers ecological principles such as population growth and regulation, trophic interactions, ecological networks, and community change. It covers evolution and natural selection. The course draws examples from some of the dominant habitats on earth, including rivers, lakes, wetlands, forests, deserts, and agricultural systems. Many of the principles and examples covered are designed to give students a foundation for the understanding or study of facets of global change.

Course Objectives

  1. To provide a common foundation in core natural sciences related to natural resources and the environment for all incoming MS students.
  2. To introduce quantitative and qualitative analysis of environmental systems to all MS students while developing a systems perspective and systems modeling skills.
  3. To foster knowledge-based critical thinking and the habit of cross-disciplinary interaction among students.
  4. To provide a transition to graduate school by expecting students to assimilate both basic and advanced information from diverse sources, including the primary scientific literature.

The Wiki

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So what do you think? My goal was to design an interface that we could all use to more easily navigate to target pages of interest. The "Extra Info" tab is still a bit messy and I'd love other suggestions for organizing it - does most recent post first make sense? The syllabus isn't all that helpful - do you want it up or is it better just taken off? Is this layout easier? Do you have suggestions to make it better?

I'm going to need some help keeping all of these pages current. If you're so inclined send me an e-mail (cdonihue) and I'll show you how I made the site, or you can just look through the code.

Hope y'all don't mind the huge change and I especially hope we find it a bit easier to visit and post on. Good night!

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Re: New Interface
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Colin,
This is great! I'm glad someone took the initiative!!! Thanks, lauren cotter

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A note about the community forum postings
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These forum postings have some pretty good potential for dialogue. Start a new thread by typing in a "Post Title" or if you'd like to respond to an already existing thread click on the "reply" link under the latest posting.

Important note: once you've posted something you can't delete it (case in point: somewhere hiding in the wiki I have a bunch of very silly test posts back and forth to myself and I still can't figure out how to get rid of all of them).

You can put these dialogue boxes anywhere on the wiki though so be thinking of creative reasons for discussion - test questions, philosophical/existential debates, Stella rants etc. Let's try to keep this page focused on topics pertinent to the wiki as a whole - we can add as many others as you'd like everywhere else. All you have to do is write [[module Comments]] when editing a page.

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How to delete pages?
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I'm thinking of deleting that blank page in the Lecture 15 section—anyone know how?

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I've had trouble figuring out how to delete pages too. The easiest way to remove it from the Lecture 15 section is to remove the tag (done). You can also "mark it as deleted" or some other such tagging, but it still floats around in the "list all pages" view. Not a big issue as there haven't been all that many that have been deleted but it could get messy. I think the only real way is for an admin to completely wipe it.

I deleted the tag though so it won't clutter the Lecture 15 section.

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