Teaching – Ichthyology.usm.edu

Taught Fall semester of odd years
Lab required
Writing Intensive
Course Based Undergraduate Research Experience - students design, implement and write up research projects.
Course Objectives
- Understanding of the mechanisms regulating the abundance, distribution and demographics of populations
- Understanding of the mechanisms regulating the dynamics, composition and organization of groups of species (communities)
- Introduction to some of the tools necessary for the design of population/community ecology experiments. These tools include sampling procedures, data collection, data analysis and hypothesis testing.

Taught Spring semester of even years
Fully online
One multivariate technique covered each week. Assignments usually replicate analyses in published reading assignments.
All analyses done in R
Course Objectives
- Know the proper use, data assumptions and method of reporting results
- Know how to interpret analyses presented in the literature and apply that interpretation to the research question being asked
- Be able to compile a dataset, format it appropriately, analyze it in R and extract the components necessary for reporting

Taught Spring semester of odd years
Satisfies physiology elective requirement for some BSC emphases
Course Objectives
- Udnderstand the nature and mechanisms for physiological adaptation in an environmental context
- An introduction to physiology and the issues of size and scale
- Understanding of specific adaptations to environmental extremes