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Marine Bio 140 and 434
Marine Bio 140 and 434
Course: I Semester, college level, dual credit for 4 college credit hours through PFW (optional) and one high school credit through the state of Indiana
Instructors: Dr. Frank Paladino, PhD, Biology Professor at PFW, Fort Wayne, In
Dr Ben Dattilo Ph.D. Associate Professor at PFW
Textbook: Marine Biology P. Castro & M Hueber 11th Edition. McGraw Hill Publishing,
Prerequisites: Biol 140 – AP biology with a score of 3+ or Biol 101
Biol 434: Biology 117 & 119 or Equivalent, Chemistry 115.
Recommended: Biol 217 and/or Organic Chemistry
Marine Biology is a unique course at PFW. It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity students to learn and experience something they will never forget. The course not only covers Marine Biology, but also touches on oceanography, conservation and ecology. In order to complete the course students must spend about nine days participating in a Biological field research project at the Goldring Marine Biology Station in Playa Grande, Costa Rica. Here they will be working mainly with Dr. Paladino and his staff in an ongoing international conservation effort to help protect Giant Leatherback Sea Turtles and other Marine organisms, working also in a mangrove estuary and dry forest creating a Field lab notebook that includes the results of lab exercises and a logbook of species and habitats encountered
Travel and lab during the Pandemic will be happening and caution as well as health certifications and development of new lab exercise that will be completed by you from home. There will be an intensive 10 day field experience .
Grading: Students final grade will be figured using total points based on the following criteria.
- 3 to 4 tests given throughout course period
- daily journal throughout course
- scientific lab notebook/journal (Costa Rica)
- homework
- power point presentations on professional articles
- participation
- Term paper on a selected topic in marine biology
All lectures will be virtual and on my webex link: https://purdue.webex.com/meet/fpaladin
Course Content : The following power points correspond to Chapters taken from the book and are available for downloading on line class website. The order in which they are taught may be changed. There will also be additional lectures from Dr. Datillo
- Introduction to Marine Biology
- Coral Reefs
- Ecology
- Marine Resources
- Introduction to Marine Invertebrates
- The Ocean Depths
- Marine Fishes
- Intertidal zones
- Estuaries and Salt Marshes
- Marine Pollution
- Marine Reptiles, Birds, and Mammals
- Primary Productivity and Marine Plants
- Climate change and oceanography
- Ecology of Marine habitats
- Marine Resources
- Fisheries and Aquaculture
- Laws & Regulations governing the seas
- Evolution