Course Description: This course is designed to instruct students on how to conduct field research. Planning, collection methods, and data management are discussed for terrestrial and aquatic sampling. Additionally, the course reviews general ecological principles.

Delivery: The course is a one-module, one credit, college-level course. The course will consist of 1 module followed by a final examination for a total of eleven, 50-minute lectures delivered on six VHS video tapes.

Text: Brower, J. E., J. H. Zar, and C.N. von Ende. 1998. Field and Laboratory Methods for General Ecology, 4E, W.C. Brown/McGraw-Hill, Boston, 273 pp.

Students should notice references at the end of each unit and Index at end of text (pp. 251-273).

Instructor: Dr. William S. (Syl) Allred, Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Box 5640, Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5640.
email: SYL.Allred@nau.edu
voice: (520) 523-7214
FAX: (520) 523-7500