Date

Content

Discussion

Activity

Reading

Presenters

Providers

Part 1

15-Jan

Conservation Biology

"The crisis discipline"

LT 1 & 2

22-Jan

Biodiversity

ConsBio Paper 1

Island Biodiversity

WJS 1

1

5

29-Jan

Population Biology

ConsBio Paper 2

LT 3 & 4

WJS 6, 7

2

4

5-Feb

Extinction

ConsBio Paper 3, Consbiography

LT 5 & 6

WJS 2

3

3

12-Feb

Managing conservation areas

ConsBio Paper 4

GIS 1

WJS 9

4

2

19-Feb

Sustainable harvest

ConsBio Paper 5

Library

WJS 5

5

1

26-Feb

Conservation & Development

Exam

Exam

WJS 14

Part 2

5-Mar

Land-use

Case-study: Prince William County, VA

GIS 2

UND 1, WJS 8

1

5

19-Mar

Wild-life management

Case-study: White Tailed Deer in PA

GIS 3

UND 2, WJS 10

2

4

26-Mar

Invasives/Biodiversity

Case-study: Florida Everglades

Invasives Video

UND 5, WJS 3

3

3

2-Apr

Timber/wildlife management

Case Study: Spotted Owl, Pacific NW

Intro to GPS

UND 7, WJS 11

4

2

Part 3

9-Apr

Marine fisheries

Case-study: Blue Fin Tuna, SW Atlantic

Campus GPS

UND 8, WJS 13

5

1

16-Apr

Wetlands

Conservation Education

Field

WJS 12

23-Apr

Vegetation Classification

Field

Provided

30-Apr

Site Presentations

Site Presentations

Required texts:

WJS = Conservation Science & Action Edited by William J. Sutherland

LT = Lap Top Inquiry Exercises in Conserving Biodiversity By E.O. Wislon asnd D. Perlman

UND=Case Studies in Environmental Science By L. Underwood

Provided:

Consbio=The Journal of Conservation Biology