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MAR 401L/501L
Spring Semester, 2005
Biological Oceanography Laboratory Schedule
TBA

Date
Lab Number
Laboratory Exercise
1/13 1 Introduction, orientation, lab facilities
1/20 2 Organisms
1/27 3 Salinity, pH, alkalinity and CO2
2/3 4 Particulate organic matter analyses
2/10 5 Plant pigment analysis
2/17 6 Bio-statistics
2/24   Mardi Gras Holiday!!! – No Lab Today
3/2 7 *** Primary production
3/9 8 Nutrient Analyses I: nitrogen compounds
3/16   Spring Break – No Lab Today
3/23 9 *** Nutrient Analyses II: phosphate, silicate
3/30 10 Nutrient Analyses III: nutrient uptake
4/6 11 *** Grazing processes
4/13 12 Lab Project
4/20 13 Lab Project
4/27 14 Lab Project - continued
5/4 15 Oral Presentation/Discussion of Lab Project Results, written reports of Projects due.

*** Note: On these days (***), we will meet in the laboratory prior to lecture (e.g. at 1230) to set up an experiment. Class will begin after the lab has been set up – at approximately 1330.

 

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