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Limnology Lab Zoology 316 |
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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: October 17
– For the lab this week only Lab Questions 1 and 3 are due. The rest will be
due with the lab questions next week.
For those of you doing projects on streams here is list of
Wisconsin streams and a map with
general locations from the USGS. It includes data that may help you in
choosing which
stream to work on for your project such as watershed size, flow rate,
substrate types, etc. October 24
– This week your take home quizzes are due on the same day your lab questions
are usually due and Lab Questions 7 and Lab Questions 6 (#2 and 4) are due on
Monday.
Here is summary
data for silica, phosphorus and chlorophyll-a from October 29
– Here are the chlorophyll-a
and zooplankton
data from the Two students will be sending missing
chlorophyll-a data to the whole classlist soon. If you have any of the
missing data we will leave it up to you to get it to the rest of your
fieldwork team (the rest of the lab) at this point. November 3
– You will be turning in a first draft of your multi-lakes paper
(introduction, methods and results) and
peer reviewing each others drafts during lab this week. Please bring
four copies of your multi-lake paper draft to class. Three of the copies (for
peer review) should not have your name on them and one copy should include
your name (for the TAs to grade). November 6
– Good luck in writing the first draft of your Multi-lake paper. Here are the
writing
presentation and peer
review rubric from lab this week to help you in know what we are looking
for in your first draft. Appendix B of your lab manual also offers good
advice for writing a scientific paper.
December 1 –
This week in lab you will use LTER data from Lake Mendota and work in small
groups to create graphs and present seasonal trends in eight different lake
variables that we have studied over the course of the semester. Data for this
is below:
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Schedule:
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Dates |
Where to meet |
Activities |
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1 |
2– 4 Sept. |
Lab (521 Noland) |
*Introduction & Sample Lake Mendota |
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2 |
9– 11 Sept. |
Dock (Center for Limnology) |
*Sample for pH, ANC, and conductivity; ; measure all back at
lab. |
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3 |
16– 18 Sept. |
Dock (Center for Limnology) |
*Sample for DO, chl a, silica, and phosphorus |
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4 |
23– 25 Sept. |
Dock (Center for Limnology) |
*Aquatic Taxonomy |
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5 |
30 Sept, 1-2 Oct. |
Lab (521 Noland) |
Stream Sampling, Land Use and Water Resources |
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3-5 Oct. |
Noland - Loading Dock off of Mills Street |
Weekend TROUT LAKE (Multi
Lake) FIELD TRIP: Group I |
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6 |
7-9 Oct. |
Lab (521 Noland) |
1) Statistics lab 2) Discuss Group Projects |
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10-12 Oct. |
Noland - Loading Dock off of Mills Street |
Weekend TROUT LAKE (Multi
Lake) FIELD TRIP: Group II |
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7 |
14-16 Oct. |
Lab (521 Noland) |
*Chlorophyll a Analysis, Zooplankton Analysis and Group
Project Consultations |
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8 |
21-23 Oct. |
Lab (521 Noland) |
*Silica and Phoshporus Analyses and Oral Group Proposal
Presentations |
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9 |
28-30 Oct. |
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No Official Lab Meeting: work on multi-lakes papers |
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10 |
4-6 Nov. |
Lab (521 Noland) |
Peer review of multi-lakes graphs, initial results,
introduction, methods |
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11 |
11-13 Nov. |
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No Official Lab Meeting: work on group projects Multi-Lake Project First
Complete Draft: due in TA mailbox by
4pm Fri Nov 14 |
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12 |
18-20 Nov. |
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Work on group projects – Meet
at lab IF YOU HAVE TP, SRP, Si for Group Projects * All TP and SRP samples have to be in the lab
refrigerator by midnight on the 17th |
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13 |
25-27 Nov. |
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No Official Lab Meeting: work on group projects / Thanksgiving
break |
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14 |
2-4 Dec. |
Lab (521 Noland) |
Seasonal trends - presentation and discussion |
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15 |
9-11 Dec. |
Lab (521 Noland) |
Oral presentations of group project results Group Project Paper: due in TA mailbox by |
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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