Meets the following requirements: ES  

This course in tropical marine ecology explores topics including organismal diversity, natural history of fish, invertebrates, and algae, habitat diversity along tropical coasts, fisheries, and conservation.  Initial time on campus will be spent examining diversity, ecology, and evolution of shallow water tropical marine organisms.  We will be relying heavily on examples from the Caribbean, and during the middle of the term the class will travel to Tobago for 3-4 weeks of field work.  Field work will focus on a collaborative project with the Buccoo Reef trust, a marine environmental group in Tobago.  The class will develop and implement a monitoring protocol for tropical reef fishes on coral reefs, to be conducted on Buccoo Reef.  In addition, students will work on smaller projects related to the class during their time on Tobago.  Evaluation will be based on field identification, short problem sets, small group projects and work on the larger monitoring project.  This course is to be taken concurrently with Creation and Management of Protected Areas: An International Perspective and Conservation Biology and Policy

Level:  Intermediate/Advanced.  .  Lab fee $2,300.  *ES*