Study Helps: Specific

• Handout(s) you should print out
• The Course Schedule and Policies in case you lose your paper copy
• Scientific Skills Building
• Scientific Skills Datasheet
• Experimental Design - Statistical analysis
• Why Statistics?
• Excel Basic Training
• Leaf Decomposition   Ecosystem Ecology
• Leaf Decomposition   Data Template
• Leaf Decomposition   Melillo et al. Decomposition article
• Alternate Population Differentiation (Chickweed) I  Evolutionary Ecology
• Population Differentiation (Clover) I  Evolutionary Ecology
• Population Differentiation (Chickweed,Clover)  Data Template
• Research Article Assignment
• Meerts & Vekemans article
• Plagiarism Exercise
• Leaf Stomata Studies
• Guidelines for Lab Report
• Notes on Lab Report Writing
• Lab Report Writing   Brief How to
  
• Lab Report Writing   Extensive How to
• Lab Report Title Page Template
• Population Differentiation (Chickweed,Clover) II  Common Garden Experiment
• Niche Partitioning
• Niche Partitioning: Writing Assignment
• Niche Partitioning: Bird ID's
• Niche Partitioning: Data Template
• Niche Partitioning: Competition and the Niche
• Human Demography
• Owl Predation
  
• Stream Ecology Field Study
  
• Stream Macroinvertebrates   Tolerant and Intolerant
  
• Old Field Secondary Succession Study
• Tree Data Sheet  Old Field Succession
• Tree Key    Old Field Succession
• Measuring the Forest    Sustainable Forestry

• Supplementary Material: visualizations and handouts pertaining to specific laboratory topics:
• Solar Heating of the Earth: it's uneven (for consideration during Climate lectures - Water and Air Motion, Ocean Currents, etc)
• Photosynthesis and CO₂ concentration  (Energy and Energtetics)
• C4 Photosynthetic Pathway (Energy and Energetics)

Study Helps: General

• Some study strategies for lecture courses.
• Tips for taking multiple choice exams.

Some web pages on the Internet to check out:

Plate Tectonics

• University of California, Berkeley, Museum of Paleontology  -  Excellent site on all kinds of evolutionary issues, here Wegener's theory is discussed.

• NOAA. New Millenium Observatory (NEMO)  -  Introductory concepts of the deep hydrothermal vents explained, with many links to other web site.