Current
Issues In Eco- & Geo-Sciences (EEES 6980)
Spring 2002
Jiquan Chen
Instructors: Dr.
Jiquan Chen
Office: BO 3009A
Phone: 419-530-2664
E-mail: jiquan.chen@utoledo.edu
Webpage: http://research.eeescience.utoledo.edu/lees/teaching/eees6980/
Meeting:
Office hours: by appointment
Format: Discussion among the group
Grading: Teach Jiquan
Schedule:
Week 1 (1/15&1/17):
Introduction and Assignment (Chen)
Discussion:
·
Introduction
·
Scheduling
·
Lesson
from the Hubble Telescope and the Hubble Constant;
·
Define
the following terms hypothesis, theory, and science?
·
Differences
between geo- vs. eco-science;
·
Science
vs. sound science.
Week 2 (1/22):
Development of a Research Proposals (Chen)
Reading: Chen & Brosofske,
Carbon exchange and cumulative NEP of disturbed land mosaics.
Discussion:
·
What
are the research questions?
·
How
do we rationalize the questions and systems?
·
What
are the hypotheses?
·
How
do we test this hypothesis?
Week 3 (1/29): Biomes and Their Ecosystem Properties (Chen)
Reading:
- Brown, J.H. and M.V.
Lomolino. 1998. Chapter 5: The distribution of
communities, Biogeography, 2nd edition, Sinauer Associates,
Sunderland, MA.
- Valentini, R., Matteucci, G., Dolman, A.J., Schulze, E.D., Rebmann, C., Moors, E.J., Granier, A., Gross, P., Jensen, N.O., Pilegaard, K., Lindroth, A., Grelle, A., Bernhofer, C., Grunwald, T., Aubinet, M., Ceulemans, R., Kowalski, A.S., Vesala, T., Rannik, U., Berbigier, P., Loustau, D., Guomundsson, J., horgeirsson, H., Ibrom, A., Morgenstern, K., Clement, R. Moncrieff, J., Montagnani, L., Minerbi, S., Jarvis, P. G., 2000. Respiration as the main determinant of carbon balance in European forests. Nature, 404:861-865.
Discussion:
Week 4 (2/5):
Ecosystem Production (Chen)
Reading: Clark et al. 2001.
Measuring net primary production in forests: concepts and field
methods. Ecological Applications
11(2): 356-370.
Discussion:
·
Define
these terms: NPP, ANPP, BNPP, NEP, NEE, NEP, GPP
·
What
is A/Ci, Ra, Rh?
·
Other
methods:
Week 5 (2/12): Geology/Ecology: Lessons from Mt. St. Helens (Chen)
Reading:
·
Judson,
O.P. and Benjamin B. Normark.
2000. Sinless Originals. Science 2000 May 19; 288: 1185-1186.
·
Franklin,
J.F. and James A. MacMahon. 2000. Messages
from a Mountain. Science
2000 May 19; 288: 1183-1184.
·
Newhall,
C.G. 2000. Mount St. Helens, Master Teacher. Science 2000 May 19; 288:
1181-1183.
Discussion:
Week 6 (2/19):
FACE (Dr. Noormets)
Reading:
Discussion:
Week 7(2/26): Placing Our Questions and Hypothesis in Time and Space (J. LeMoine)
Week 8 (3/5): Interactions between fuel loading, forest
type, and disturbance (S. Ryu)
Week 9 (3/19): Modeling the effect of structural and biophysical controls on landscape level NPP in landscapes, N. Wisconsin (M. Bresee)
Week 10(3/26): Modeling organic carbon flux across the dry valley landscape of Antarctic (Tony Kufel)
Week 11 (4/2):
Land Use and Cover Change (Chen)
Reading:
- HANSEN,
ANDREW J.; NEILSON, RONALD P.; DALE, VIRGINIA H.; FLATHER, CURTIS H.;
IVERSON, LOUIS R.; et al. 2001. Global Change in Forests: Responses of Species,
Communities, and Biomes.
BioScience 51(9): 765-779.
- DALE,
VIRGINIA H.; JOYCE, LINDA A.; MCNULTY, STEVE; NEILSON, RONALD P.;
AYRES, MATTHEW P.; et al.
2001. Climate Change and Forest Disturbances. BioScience 51(9): 723-734.
Discussion:
- Climate change
- Carbon
- Disturbance (fire)
Week 12 (4/9):
Putting Together A Research Proposal (Chen)
·
RFP
·
Formation
of a research team
·
Research
topics and schedules: mission oriented? Budget limited? Risk level?
·
Necessary
forms (http://www.officeofresearch.utoledo.edu/)
·
Supporting
WebPages
·
Agencies,
foundations, and competitive grant
·
Budget
·
Submission: conflicts of interests, negotiation, recommending
potential reviewers, etc.
Week 13 (4/16):
Water Quality of Maumee Bay (Sara Mierzwiak)
Week 14 (4/23): Global Climate Change and the Kyoto
Protocol (xx)
Alternative: Wisconsin Glacier and land forms in the Great Lakes Region (XX)
Week 15 (4/30): Changes of Microclimate and Soil Respiration after Burning and Thinning in an old-growth mixed conifer forest in Sierra Nevada (Siyan Ma)
Week 16 (5/3): Final report due!