Fish 492
Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship in
Marine Fish: Ecology, Habitat and Marine Protected
Areas
This apprenticeship focuses on the ecology of fishes in the San
Juan Archipelago, the habitats these fish rely on, and how nearshore areas function
for a variety of fish species with diverse life histories. The first two to
three weeks of the course consist of intensive lectures and field and laboratory
exercises, during which Apprentices choose a research topic
of their interest. Apprentices then complete their research project, including
devising a hypothesis, conducting field or lab experiments, and performing data
analyses; the research project is conducted either independently or in pairs.
The course culminates in a written, journal-style paper and an oral presentation
in front of the Friday Harbor Labs community. The primary teaching objective
of this apprenticeship is to create an opportunity for students to do independent
field and laboratory research.
Instructors:
Dr. Donald Gunderson
email: dgun@u.washington.edu
Dr. Gary Greene
email: greene@mlml.calstate.edu
Research Assistants:
Eric Eisenhardt
email: eisen@u.washington.edu
Charlie Endris
email: cendris@mlml.calstate.edu
Jo Smith
email: josmith@u.washington.edu
Photo:
Greene and Endris, unpublished data.
2006 Reading List:
PISCO The Science of Marine Reserves (2002): (2.8 Mb pdf file)
You can get it in sections here:
http://www.piscoweb.org/outreach/pubs/reserves/
Palsson Criteria
for establishing and monitoring no-take refuges for rockfishes in Puget Sound
Halpern The Impact of Marine
Reserves: Do Reserves Work and Does Reserve Size Matter?
Camilli Designing a Marine
Protected Area from the bottom up: benthic habitat mapping in the San Juan Islands.
last updated 27 September
2006
This year's Apprenticeship Schedule:
Fall 2006 Schedule (MS Word document)
last updated 15 Oct 2006
Final Reports from Previous FHL Apprenticeships:
Fall 2000
Fall 2001
Fall 2002
Spring 2004
Spring 2005 Fall
2006
Website last updated 8 January 2007
For questions about this apprenticeship, please
contact Don Gunderson: dgun@u.washington.edu