Free Learning- Additional Ecology Content

Because the goal of the MS Squared program is to integrate math and science, this Ecology course contains less ecological content than it would it ecology was the sole focus of the course. I develop course blogs for many of my courses and these blogs contain many lessons that might prove useful or interesting to you. Enjoy

The Rio Grande Class 
http://riograndeclass.blogspot.com/

I teach this course through the Honors College at Tech for students majoring in Environment and the Humanities degree program. This class focuses on the ecology of the Rio Grande River and the surrounding land. The highlight of this course is a week-long canoe trip along the Rio Grande River through Big Bend National Park. Some of the lessons in this blog-

1) Rivers and the hydrologic cycle

2) Importance of the physical environment

3) Adaptations to desert environments

4) Riparian zones

5) Stream Ecology

6) Disturbance Ecology

7) Invasive species

Ecology: The Science Behind Environmental Issues
http://ecologyseminar2011.blogspot.com/

This is a upper division seminar course that I teach in the Honors College. The goal of this course is to provide the basic ecological information required to understand current environmental issues. Some of the topics covered in this blog include-

1) Global carbon cycle and climate change

2) Ecosystem services

3) Biodiversity

Prairies and Rainforests
http://prairiesandrainforests2012.blogspot.com/

I taught this course for the first time last spring.  This course was intended for students majoring in Environment and the Humanities.  The purpose of the class was to examine how the physical environment influenced the ecology, history, and environmental issues of two diverse ecosytems- prairies and tropical rainforests.


Perspectives in Nature and the Environment
http://perspectivesinnature.blogspot.com/

This is a seminar course for incoming Freshmen in the Honors College. Some of the topics covered in this course include-

1) Community Ecology and the Portal Experiment

2) Ecosystem Ecology

3) Environmental Ethics

4) Religion and the Environment

UM Special Topics in E&B
http://umspecialtopics.blogspot.com/

This is the course that I taught about Ecology and Biodiversity (E&B) at the University of Malaya (UM) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia last year while I was a Fulbright Scholar in Malaysia.