(1) BIOL 3040 - BIOLOGY OF MARINE SYSTEMS
     - Offered each spring semester
      - Dr. Nanette E. Chadwick
      - Dr. Ken Halanych

(2) BIOL 5150/6150 - COMMUNITY ECOLOGY
     - Offered each spring semester
      - Dr. Nanette E. Chadwick

(3) BIOL 4950 - UNDERGRADUATE SEMINAR IN ECOLOGY
     - Offered each spring semester
      - Dr. Nanette E. Chadwick

(4) BIOL 4970/7970 - RED SEA BIOLOGY
     - Offered each summer semester
      - Dr. Nanette E. Chadwick

This course is an introduction to organisms that live in marine environments, the abiotic and biotic processes that influence their distribution and survival, how they interact in an ecological setting, and how human activities influence marine systems.

This course explores the dynamics of interactions among species in natural communities, including the general properties of communities, indices of biodiversity, models and evidence concerning interspecific competition and coexistence, niches, predator-prey systems, food webs and trophic interactions, parasitism and disease, commensalism and mutualism, indirect interactions among species, community assembly rules and priority effects, patch dynamics and island biogeography, community stability, equilibrium theory, disturbance processes, succession, and applied issues in community ecology.

This is a seminar course, designed to give advanced undergraduates exposure to ecological research by reading and discussing published scientific articles on a variety of topics, and providing written reports (synopses) on a subset of articles for a letter grade.

This intensive field course is taught at the Marine Science Station in Aqaba, Jordan, during 4 weeks in May-June. Students are paired with scientists from Auburn University and the Marine Science Station to conduct research on population dynamic modeling and metabolic interactions between giant sea anemones and symbiotic anemonefish on Red Sea coral reefs. Students gain experience in scientific communication by presenting the results of their independent projects in a manuscript style research paper and orally at a laboratory wide research symposium. Students also attend research seminars, lectures, and workshops on current theory and methods in aspects of population ecology, physiology, and coral reef biology. Application materials are available at: www.auburn.edu/jordan

Nanette E. Chadwick | (334) 844-8184 | Chadwick@auburn.edu

Department of Biological Sciences | 101 Rouse Life Sciences Building | Auburn University | Auburn, Alabama 36849 USA