Summer Session Course Detail and Descriptions
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Biology and Conservation
of Marine Mammals
Date: July 6 Ð July 17 Time:
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM 4
credits
Description: Examine the biology of whales, pinnipeds, and other marine mammals and their conservation. Topics include systematics and biogeography of marine mammals, reproduction, energetics and physiology of swimming and diving, vocal communication and echolocation, feeding and migratory behavior, and marine mammal/human interactions. A necropsy of a beach-stranded marine mammal and field studies of harbor seals, sea lions, and gray whales of the Oregon Coast will be conducted.
Instructor: Dr. James Sumich
My research focuses on the study of the interactions between
newborn gray whale calves and their mothers and the way each budgets its energy
expenditures during the period of calf nursing. In 1986, I completed a Ph.D.
program at Oregon State University with Dr. Bruce Mate on the distribution,
growth patterns, and reproductive energetics of gray whales, and have continued
to conduct research in Baja California Sur, California, and Oregon. A young
gray whale (JJ) held at Sea World, San Diego for rehabilitation provided 14
months of opportunities to address in a controlled situation several questions
related to the development of metabolic rates of very young gray whales.
Currently, I am enjoying the recent publication of the 8th edition of a widely
adopted marine biology text and lab manual, and am hard at work on a 2nd
edition revision of a textbook on the evolutionary biology of marine mammals
co-authored with Dr. Annalisa Berta and Dr. Kit Kovacs.
Date: July 6 Ð July 31 New hybrid course (Online and onsite at HMSC) 4 credits
Required Weekend Field Trip Date: July 25-26
Description: This is a new 4-week hybrid course combining online course material and a required weekend field trip at the Hatfield Marine Science Center. The course covers the diversity, natural history, theory, evolution, ecology, politics, economics, and conservation of biological invasions in aquatic environments with a Òhands-on, go there, see-itÓ experience over a weekend. About 1/3 concerns local aquatic species and biology, and issues and 2/3 is on natural history, diversity, theory, ecology and management of aquatic nonindigenous species. It is organized for students, teachers and professionals in ecology, conservation, fisheries biology and resource management and will include field or lab research projects, a weekend field trip to local sloughs, marshes, ponds and estuaries of the Oregon coast.
Instructor:
Dr. John
Chapman
Dr. John Chapman is an invertebrate taxonomist and biological invasion ecologist with major interests in the patterns and rates of biological invasions in aquatic systems and the ecological conditions in which they occur. Some of his research bears on how to distinguish introduced species, what new species are moving around the world, what Vikings ate, and what can happen with live seafood.
Understanding Free Choice
Learning for Education and Outreach
Date: July 27 Ð August 7 Time:
1:00 PM – 5:00 PM 3
credits
Description: More
people participate in non-school based science and environmental education each
year than attend all professional sports combined. This course seeks answers to
questions about what and how they learn in these kinds of settings by reviewing
research and practice in what has been called free-choice learning: the
learning that occurs when people believe that they have choices over what they
learn, how they learn, how much time they spend learning, and their sources of
information. We will examine research on learning in and from museums,
aquariums, zoos, botanical gardens and interactive science centers, as well as
after-school programs, magazines, newspapers, television and apprenticeships.
Instructor:
Dr.
Shawn Rowe
I focus on studying how people learn beyond the school environment. Shawn holds a PhD from Washington University in St. Louis; along with Dr. Olga Rowe, he has carried out research in history and science museums both in the US and in Ukraine. His Sea Grant Extension position combines academic work on free-choice learning with practice-based research in the OSU Hatfield Marine Science Visitor Center. He also works closely with graduate students in the new Free-Choice Science Learning Ph.D., M. S., Environmental Science, and Marine Resource Management programs at OSU. Projects and areas of interest include: Investigating how talk and activity work together to help people absorb and make sense of what they see in history and science museums; Free-Choice Learning.
Contact:
Academic Program Coordinator - Itchung Cheung
Oregon State University
Hatfield Marine Science Center
541-867-0380
¥ Fax: 541-867-0138
Email: HMSCacademic@oregonstate.edu
On-campus housing: Reservations must be made by June 1