Week 1. The role of MPAs in conservation and fishery management
Traditional fishery management and its effectiveness
- harvest management
- hatcheries
- artificial reefs
Current approaches to ecosystem management
- "multispecies" management
- endangered species
- critical habitat
- MPAs
MPA policy and politics
Powerpoint presentation: No-Take Reserves
Lab—Review of basic statistics, hypothesis testing, power of test, pseudoreplication
Week 2. Marine ecology and MPAs
Migration and dispersal of fish and other living marine resources
- Fish: adults larvae and juveniles
- invertebrates
- marine algae
- marine mammals and birds
Powerpoint presentation: Metapopulations
Lab—Tagging methods, quantifying "home range"
Week 3 Marine ecology and MPAs (cont.)
"Stock " delineation
Habitat, oceanographic patterns, and metapopulation structure
Climate variation
Powerepoint presentation: Temporal Change, Ocean Models, Genetics
Lab—Genetic methods used to evaluate metapopulation structure
Week 4 Life history patterns and MPA effectiveness
Dispersal patterns and population dynamics
Critical habitat
Trophic interactions: "bottom-up" vs "top-down"
Powerpoint presentations: Habitat mapping, Trophic Interactions, San Juan habitat
Midterm I
Week 5. Life history patterns and MPA effectiveness (cont.)
Managing metapopulations
Life history patterns, population dynamics, and time scales
Powerpoint presentation: Life History, Reef Metapopulations
Lab: How long until we know if MPAs are working?
Week 6. MPA network design
Global positioning (GPS), remote sensing, and spatial analysis
- Bathymetry, vegetation, and bottom type
- Oceanographic models
Mapping the spatial distribution of adults, egg/larval stages, juveniles
Understanding trophic structure
Powerpoint presentation: Modeling MPA Networks, Kendall & Picquelle
Lab: Spatial analysis (Logsdon)
Week 7. Resource mapping and monitoring
Evaluating MPA effectiveness
- abundance of key species within MPA network
- evidence for enhancement outside of MPA network
- disentangling climate and "MPA effects"
Active vs. passive gear
Availability, vulnerability, selectivity
Bias, precision, and accuracy
Catch per unit effort and relative abundance
Powerpoint presentation: Survey design
Lab: Density estimation using San Juan Is. ROV data
Week 8. Resource mapping and monitoring—ichthyoplankton and ROV surveys
Line transect theory
Aircraft, SCUBA, Cameras and ROVs
Acoustic surveys and remote sensing
Estimating abundance of eggs or larvae
Estimating adult abundance from icthyoplankton surveys
Powerpoint presentation: Plankton survey
Midterm II
Week 9. Resource mapping and monitoring:Tagging methods
Population estimation
- open vs. closed populations
Estimating migration rates
Powerpoint presentation: Tagging
Lab: Spatial analysis of San Juan Is. data using ArcGIS
Week 10. Implementing MPA networks and monitoring their effectiveness
Ecosystem effects, changes in trophic structure
Genetic and evolutionary effects
Establishing benchmarks for performance
- Which species should be monitored, and how?
- inside MPA network
- outside MPA network
Course review
Powerpoint presentation: Puget Sound MPAs; Santa Barbara MPAs
Lab: Work on San Juan Island report
Final Exam: March 14, 8:30-10:20, FSH 107