Dr. Ian MacDonald's Alternate CMSS Site

12 Oct:

Next Tuesday (10/16), the paper will be Goreau et al. Dr Tunnell has posed the following questions for discussion:

1) Where are coral reefs distributed in the world's oceans?

2) Why are coral reefs found in clear water primarily/only?

3) What are zooxanthellae? Why are they important to corals/coral reefs?

4) What are the three major types of coral reefs? How are they formed?

5) Are corals carnivores or herbivores? How do they feed?

6) What phylum and class do most reef building corals belong?

7) What are spurs (buttresses) and grooves? How do they form/function?

8) How are coral reefs doing today? What are major impacts?

Goreau 1979

15 Oct:

The readings for our next two meetings will be three papers by Falkowski. We will start with Falkowski 1998 and finish with Falkowski 2005. This is a very productive scientist and I know you will be able to find a lot of papers that cite these works.

Falkowski 1998
Falkowski 2004
Falkowski 2005

6 Nov:

The readings for our next two meetings will concern glacial cycles. We start with classic paper by Ewing, examine the abrupt end to the last glacial stadial, and conclude with one of the first papers to present results from ice core drilling. Students are stongly encouraged to follow up the literature of more recent results from ice coring and the general discussion of Pleistocene/Holocene climate change so they can contribute to the discussion of this topic.

Ewing 1956
Fairbanks 1987
Dansgaard 1993

20 Nov: The readings for this week are two papers on ecological approaches to understanding the impact of fishing.

Pauly, D., et al. (1998). Fishing down marine food webs. Science 279(2/6/98): 860-863

Jackson, J. B. C., et al. (2001). Historical overfishing and the recent collapse of coastal ecosystems. Science 293(5530): 629-638

Class meeting Tuesday 20 November:

We will meet, informally, at 5:30 at Pizza State (Corner of Ocean Drive and Enis Joslin). Discussion of the readings will take place over a few slices and few cold ones. No worries if you can't make it, but we will talks science if you can!

Class meeting Tuesday 27 November:

We will discuss the Kvenvolden 1993 article--it's in the list at the top of this page. Pls. be sure to bring more recent references for discussion.

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