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Bernard Field Station Use Fall 2007

Course Uses & Projects

Request No.: 07CA63095A
Submitted on: 10/19/07 at 1:08 PM
Instructor: Gretchen Edwalds-Gilbert, JSD
E-mail: gedwalds@jsd.claremont.edu
College phone: 909-607-7068

Course: BIOL001L JS - Accelerated Integrated Science Sequence
Number of students: 1 Sections, approx. 29 students per section
Dates: 10/30/2007 to 10/30/2007
Frequency: Once - hope to use again next semester
Time of day: Varies - 8 a.m.-11 a.m.
Areas to be used: pHake Lake
Facilities or equipment needed: I will bring items from JSD
Will any plant or animal species be studied? Yes - We will be looking at the varieties around pHake Lake
Will plants or animals be collected? Yes
Will vertebrate animals be collected or manipulated? No
Will markings or flags be used? No

Description of course experiment, project or activity: Similar to the Aquatic Biology lab done in the JSD course Bio 44, although we will only visit the four sites around the lake as opposed to going out on the boats. Since it may be chilly, we are planning to bring the samples back to JSD for examination under the microscope and for concentrating the samples and determining nitrogen and carbon contents.

Request No.: 07BD6BB22F
Submitted on: 9/12/07 at 3:54 PM
Instructor: Frances Hanzawa, Pomona
E-mail: fhanzawa@pomona.edu
College phone: 621-8601

Course: BIOL121 PO - Insect Ecology and Behavior
Number of students: 1 Sections, approx. 10 students per section
Dates: 09/18/2007 to 12/04/2007
Frequency: Other - 18 and 25 Sept; weekly 30 Oct through 4 Dec
Time of day: Afternoon, Varies - students will occasionally work outside of lab hours
Areas to be used: western CSS, central CSS, pHake Lake, eastern CSS, oak forest, corner, north field, south field, lower neck, central neck, upper neck
Facilities or equipment needed: None
Will any plant or animal species be studied? Yes - Various insects and host plants
Will plants or animals be collected? Yes
Will vertebrate animals be collected or manipulated? No
Will markings or flags be used? Yes - Stake flags will be used for 1-4 weeks as required by student projects.

Description of course experiment, project or activity: Students will design and carry out projects examining herbivorous or gall-forming insects during September. Each student will carry out a 6-week independent project on some aspect of insect behavior or ecology beginning in late October. (Many of these projects will be largely or entirely lab-based; only a few will be conducted at BFS.) In addition, students will occasionally collect insects via pitfall traps, nets, etc for a required insect collection.