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Limnology Lab

Zoology 316
Fall Semester - 2008

 

Announcements

Instructors

Syllabus

Assignments

Data

Trout Lake Field Trip

Links

 

Announcements!

 

 September 2 – Welcome to Limnology Laboratory!

September 4 – Bring raingear to lab today. We will go out on the lake in the rain, unless there are thunderstorms.

The Web of Science database can be found at the link below. This database should be used to find articles for assignment #1. http://apps.isiknowledge.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/WOS_GeneralSearch_input.do?product=WOS&search_mode=GeneralSearch&SID=3CgeNAE39ABa4GA6o5O&preferencesSaved=

September 8 – Prepare for Lab 3 in your lab manual, pH, acid neutralizing capacity and conductivity, this week. We will do the dissolved oxygen lab, Lab 2 in your manual, next week.

October 6 – This week in lab you will be performing some statistical analyses using the 2007 Multi Lake dataset using the statistics program R. Here are the needed files:

StatsHandout-08

Week6_Data

Annova Script

Regression Script

Tukeys Test Script

T test Script

 

 

 

Schedule:

Week

Dates

Where to meet

Activities

1

2– 4 Sept.

Lab (521 Noland)

*Introduction & Sample Lake Mendota

2

9– 11 Sept.

Dock (Center for Limnology)

*Sample for pH, ANC, and conductivity; ; measure all back at lab.

3

16– 18 Sept.

Dock (Center for Limnology)

*Sample for DO, chl a, silica, and phosphorus

4

23– 25 Sept.

Dock (Center for Limnology)

*Aquatic Taxonomy

5

30 Sept, 1-2 Oct.

Lab (521 Noland)

Stream Sampling, Land Use and Water Resources

 

3-5 Oct.

Noland - Loading Dock off of Mills Street

Weekend TROUT LAKE (Multi Lake) FIELD TRIP: Group I

6

7-9 Oct.

Lab (521 Noland)

1) Statistics lab   2) Discuss Group Projects

 

10-12 Oct.

Noland - Loading Dock off of Mills Street

Weekend TROUT LAKE (Multi Lake) FIELD TRIP: Group II

7

14-16 Oct.

Lab (521 Noland)

*Chlorophyll a Analysis, Zooplankton Analysis and Group Project Consultations

8

21-23 Oct.

Lab (521 Noland)

*Silica and Phoshporus Analyses and Oral Group Proposal Presentations

9

28-30 Oct.

 

No Official Lab Meeting:  work on multi-lakes papers

10

4-6 Nov.

Lab (521 Noland)

Peer review of multi-lakes graphs, initial results, introduction, methods

11

11-13 Nov.

 

 No Official Lab Meeting: work on group projects

12

18-20 Nov.

 

No Official Lab Meeting: work on group projects

13

25-27 Nov.

 

Work on group projects (no formal lab) / Thanksgiving break

* All TP and SRP samples have to be in freezer by midnight on the 26th

14

2-4 Dec.

Lab (521 Noland)

Work on group projects – Meet at lab IF YOU HAVE TP, SRP, Si for Group Projects

15

9-11 Dec.

Lab (521 Noland)

Seasonal trends – Presentation and discussion

16

16-18 Dec.

Lab (521 Noland)

Oral presentations of group project results

Links:

 

Papers that may be helpful to your MULTILAKE papers:

1) Kratz, T.K., K.E. Webster, J.L. Riera, D.B. Lewis, and A.I. Pollard.  2006.  Making sense of the landscape:  Geomorphic legacies and the landscape position of lakes, p. 49-66.  In J.A. Magnusson, T.K. Kratz, and B.J. Benson [eds.], Long term dynamics of lakes in the landscape, Oxford Press.

2) Mazumder, A.M. 1994. Thermal structure of lakes varying in size and water clarity. Limnology and Oceanography 39: 958-976.

3) Riera, J.L., J.J. Magnuson, T.K. Kratz, and K.E. Webster. 2000. A geomorphic template for the analysis of lake districts applied to the Northern Highland Lake District, Wisconsin, U.S.A. Freshwater Biology: 43: 301-318.

4) Quinlan, R, A.M. Paterson, R.I. Hall, P.J. Dillon, A.N. Wilkinson, B.F. Cumming, M.S.V. Douglas, J.P. Smol. 2003. A landscape approach to examining spatial patterns of limnological variables and long-term environmental change in a southern Canadian lake district. Freshwater Biology 48: 1676-1697.

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-an online benthic invertebrate key

-stylistic guide to making charts 

-to make a depth profile (helpful on question 1 for week 3 lab feedback)

-link to MadCat, UW’s online library catalogue, where you can access a  very helpful book that is published online       

-a useful reference on scientific writing: Day (1998) How to write and publish a scientific paper

-link to the Web of Science, where you can search for scientific papers