Day: Fridays, (weeks 5-10)
Time: 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Location: Phelps Hall1440
Field Trip to Carpinteria Salt Marsh - November 16, 2007, 1:30-6:00 p.m., Transportation will be provided
Enrollment Code: 57539
Description:
Many natural habitats provide "ecosystem services". For example, estuaries provide nursery habitats for many fish species, support diverse populations of resident and migrating
birds, and regulate the rates of delivery of nutrients, contaminants and pathogens to the ocean. Policy makers and environmental managers need rapid, cheap, effective indicators that anticipate long-term changes in the ecological condition or "health" of natural and stressed systems. We shall study indicators recently developed for the coastal wetlands that use a broad range of sophisticated tools based on chemistry, molecular biology, applied mathematics, and statistics. There
will be one afternoon of field work at Carpinteria Salt Marsh, part of the University of California Natural Reserve
System.
Professor Roger Nisbet, Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology, his research involves the use of mathematical models to study problems in ecology. He is particularly interested in research that crosses the traditional boundaries between biology and the other sciences.
Email: nisbet@lifesci.ucsb.edu
