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Week
of May 18
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Fish
Monitoring in Narragansett Bay
Monday, 8 a.m. to mid-afternoon
Depart from Wickford Shipyard at 8 a.m. sharp
(map,
directions).
No heels, no sandals, no shorts. Bring warm layers and rain gear as necessary.
Bring rubber gloves and lunch. Bottled water provided.
Fish trawl at Fox Island and Whale Rock aboard
Cap'n Bert
Readings to be completed before
going out on the water, in the order listed:
Introduction
to fish monitoring
Oviatt,
C. S. Olsen, M. Andrews, J. Collie, T. Lynch and K. Raposa. 2003. A century
of fishing and fish fluctuations in Narragansett Bay. Reviews in Fisheries
Science 11:221-242.
Look up the species discussed
in the introductory reading so that you will know what you're looking
at during the monitoring:
Bigelow, H.B. and W.C. Schroeder. 1953. Fisheries of the Gulf of Maine.
Fish. Bull. Fish. Wildlife Ser. 53:577p.
Tuesday,
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. MERL Conference Room
Data analysis and discussion
Collie,
J.S., A.D. Wood, and H. P. Jeffries. 2008. Long-term shifts in the species
composition of a coastal fish community. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 65:1362-1365.
Write-up is due by Wednesday at noon
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Week
of May 26
(Monday, May 25
Memorial Day Holiday)
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Oxygen
Monitoring in Narragansett Bay
Tuesday,
8 a.m. to late afternoon
Depart from Wickford Shipyard (directions)
CTD
survey for hypoxia in Greenwich Bay aboard Cap'n Bert
Readings
to be completed before going out on the water, in the order listed:
Introduction
to oxygen monitoring
Bergondo, D.L., D.R. Kester, H.E. Stoffel and W.L. Woods. 2005. Time-series
observations during the low sub-surface oxygen events in Narragansett
Bay during summer 2001. Marine Chemistry 97:90-103.
RIDEM.
2003. The Greenwich Bay fish kill - August 2003: causes, impacts, and
responses. 32 pp.
Deacutis,
C.F., D. Murray, W. Prell, E. Saarman, and L. Korhun. 2006. Hypoxia in
the upper half of Narragansett Bay, RI, during August 2001 and 2002. Northeast
Naturalist 13 (Special Issue 4):173-198.
Optional background reading:
Oviatt
and Gold. 2005. Nitrate in coastal waters. Ch 8 in Addiscott,
T.M. (ed) Nitrate, Agriculture and the Environment.
Wednesday,
9 a.m. to 4 p.m., MERL Conference Room
Data
analysis and discussion
Write-up
is due by Thursday at noon
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Week
of June 1
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Surveys
and Social Modeling
Class
schedule shifted to Tues-Wed-Thur
Tuesday, 9 a.m. to noon, CIK Sun Room
Introduction to focus groups and survey methods
(to limit numbers, no additional faculty please).
Tuesday, 1 p.m. to 4
p.m., CIK Sun Room
Introduction to experimental economics (interested
faculty strongly encouraged to attend).
Wednesday, 9 a.m. to
1 p.m., CIK Sun Room
Pre-test of proposed research experiments
with Karen Sullivan (CIIP Co-05).
(Lunch provided)
Wednesday, 1 p.m. to
4 p.m., CIK 026
Introduction to GIS
and GPS; data collection
Thursday, 9 a.m. to 11:00 p.m., Data Analysis
Students analyze data and prepare talks.
May meet in teams, no formal class meeting.
11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Presentations, Hazard Conference Room, CI Narragansett
10 minute presentations/student (20 minutes
per team) of results of GIS
data analysis
Readings:
Johnston,
R.J., et al. 2002. Combining economic and ecological indicators to prioritize
salt marsh restoration actions. Amer. J. Agr. Econ. 84:1362-1370.
Anderson,
C.M. and J.G. Sutinen. 2005. A laboratory assessment of tradable fishing
allowances. Marine Resources Economics 20:1-23.
The
greatest auction ever. Ch 49 in A Beautiful Mind by S. Nasar.
Wetlands
expert survey
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Week
of June 8
Packing
List
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Monomoy
Wildlife Refuge, Cape Cod
Monday, 9:00 a.m.,
Depart CI Narragansett for Chatham, MA.
Meet in the parking lot at the CI in Narragansett.
Lunch at the Refuge while Steph gives an overview of horseshoe crabs,
shorebirds, and management at the Refuge. Afternoon at the beach tagging
crabs, followed by a quick look at statistics at the office. Please
bring your laptop - you will be doing some data analysis on Monday afternoon.
Bring a lunch to eat in the field. We'll provide water and granola bars.
Driving Directions are here.
Tuesday Overview
of shorebirds and public use (esp. shellfishing). Intro to designing a
shorebird study. Intro to shorebird identification. Data collection on
North Monomoy Island. Back to the office to enter data into spreadsheets,
discuss statistical methods, findings, additional questions.
Tuesday 8 p.m. Return to CI Narragansett.
Wednesday, 9 a.m. - ?, MERL Conference Room
Brief orientation in preparation
for Baltimore LTER module.
Trainee-only discussion of literature and data analyses
Check out the photos
from the 2007 trip 
Readings:
Burger
et al. 1997. Importance of beach, mudflat and marsh habitats to migrant
shorebirds on Delaware Bay. Biological Conservation 79:283-292.
Gill
et al. 2001. Why behavioural responses may not reflect the population
consequences of human disturbance. Biological Conservation 97:265-268.
James-Pirri
et al. 2005. Spawning densities, egg densities, size structure, and movement
patterns of spawning horseshoe crabs, Limulus polyphemus, with four coastal
embayments on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Estuaries 28:296-313.
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Week
of June 15
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Baltimore
Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Site
www.beslter.org
Exploring
Human Dimensions: A Major Challenge for Ecosystem Scientists
Monday, 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.,
MERL Conference Room
Trainee-led discussion of literature with faculty
Monday 1 p.m. , meet at T.F.
Green Airport for flight to Baltimore
2:35 pm SW #949 to BWI, arriving 3:50 pm.
Dinner in Fells Point neighborhood.
Tuesday
Watershed studies tour with Peter Groffman
NY Mets vs.
Orioles at Camden Yards; dinner at the game.
Wednesday
Visit stream restoration site
Lunch with UMBC IGERT students
Depart after lunch for the airport.
5:00 pm SW # 2893 to PVD, arriving 6:15 pm.
Check
out the photos from the 2008 trip
Readings:
Essential Background (not necessary to
summarize):
What
is an LTER?
Excerpts
from the Baltimore LTER proposal
The three central questions
of the Baltimore LTER
Pickett,
S.T.A., et al. 2008. Beyond urban legends: An emerging framework of urban
ecology, as illustrated by the Baltimore Ecosystem Study. BioScience 58:139-150.
Overview
of Stream and Watershed Studies
Demographic
and Socioeconomic Projects
Readings to prepare for discussion:
Group 1 (Trisha & Donald):
Redman,
C.L. et al. 2004. Integrating social science into the Long-Term Ecological
Research (LTER) network: social dimensions of ecological change and ecological
dimensions of social change. Ecosystems 7:161-171.
Pickett, S.T.A.
et al. 2007. Watersheds in Baltimore, Maryland: understanding and application
of integrated and social processes. J. Contemporary Water Research &
Education 136:44-55.
Grimm, N.B.
et al. 2008. The changing landscape: ecosystem responses to urbanization
and pollution across climatic and societal gradients. Front Ecol Environ
6:264-272.
Group 2 (Rob & Bogdan):
Troy, A. and
J.M. Grove. 2008. Property values, parks, and crime: a hedonic analysis
in Baltimore, MD. Landscape and Urban Planning 87:233-245.
Vermuri et al. 2009. in review (we will
give you hard copy).
Parks & People - Urban Resources Initiative
(web page);
Watershed 263 (web
page)
Group 3 (Brita & Julia):
Shields, C.A.
et al. 2008. Streamflow distribution of non-point source nitrogen export
from urban-rural catchments in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Water Resources
Research.
Kaushal,
S.S. et al. 2008. Interaction between urbanization and climate variability
amplifies watershed nitrate export in Maryland. Environ. Sci. Technol.
42:5872-5878.
Kaushal,
S.S. et al. 2008. Effects of stream restoration on denitrification in
an urbanizing watershed. Ecological Applications 18:789-804.
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