Date

Topic(s)

Reading(s)

Instructor

Jan 21

History of limnology

NRC (1996); Lindeman (1942); ASLO awards (Hutchinson, Lindeman, Patrick); ASLO bulletin readings; Hutchinson (1957); Forbes (1925)

Fritsen

Jan 23

Hypothesis testing and proposal writing
LAB:  2 hour discussion of readings

NSF proposal guidelines

Fritsen

Jan 28

Paleolimnology

Hall et al. 1999; Finney et al. 2002

Fritsen

Jan 30

Paleolimnology
LAB:  2 hour

Fritsen

Feb 4

Bathymetry

Rossman (2002); Brooks and Hayashi (2002); Capiella et al. (1999); wild ride - Great Lakes Bathymetry

Saito

Feb 6

Mixing and heat budgets
NO LAB

Malm (1999); Bartholow et al. (2001)

Saito

Feb 11

Hydrodynamics

Saito

Feb 13

Instrumentation and analytical tools
LAB:  3 hours tank lab (FA 115) (postponed)

Attend Lake Baikal presentation (3pm JTSU 345) and Fallen Leaf Lake presentation (4pm SEM 234) (abstract)

Saito

Feb 18

Organisms

 Kalff (2002) - Chapters 22 and 23

Fritsen

Feb 20

Functional groups
LAB:  3 hours tank lab (FA 115)

Fritsen

Feb 25

Biogeochemical cycles

 Engstrom et al. (2000); Goldman et al. (1993); Hudson et al. (2000)

Saito

Feb 27

Biogeochemical cycles and eutrophication
NO LAB - NWRA Annual conference

Saito

Mar 4

Biogeochemical cycles

 Handouts from Chapra (1997)

Fritsen/Saito

Mar 6

Food webs

LAB:  3 hours (Virginia Lake)

 Carpenter et al. (1985); Paine (1988); Pimm and Kitching (1988)

Fritsen/Saito

Mar 11

Trophic dynamics

Fritsen

Mar 13

Stable isotopes
LAB:  3 hours - Optics/optics lab (DRI)

Saito et al. (2001)

Fritsen/Saito

Mar 18

SPRING BREAK

Mar 20

SPRING BREAK

Mar 25

Review

Fritsen/Saito

Mar 27

Midterm
LAB:  3 hours (Proposal presentations)

Fritsen/Saito

Apr 1

 Systems ecology

 excerpts from Harte (1985) and Stella manual

Fritsen

Apr 3

 9th Annual Lake Tahoe Basin Ecological Forum

Apr 8

 Principal components analysis

 Handout

Fernandez 

Apr 10

 Modeling

LAB:  3 hours (modeling)

 Oreskes et al. (1994)

 Saito

Saito

Apr 12

FIELD TRIP to Donner Lake (all day)

Fritsen/Saito

Apr 15

 Stella model and systems modeling

 Fritsen

Apr 17

 Bioassays

LAB:  3 hours (water quality analyses at DRI)

 Fritsen

Apr 22

 NSF proposal example; critical mixing depth

 Fritsen/Saito

Apr 24

 Restoration/remediation

LAB:  Project time

Draft proposal in Saito's box by 4 pm on 4/25

 Carpenter and Cottingham (1997)

 Saito

Apr 29

Proposals dueDam operations; dam effects

 Saito

May 1

 Dam operations; dam effects

LAB:  No lab

 Saito

May 6

Panel ReviewProposals due

Fritsen/Saito