2023-2024 Academic Catalog

PMO 764 Tutorial in Aquatic Biology

This course is designed to familiarize the student with the major groupings of aquatic arthropods, which serve as useful indicators of environmental pollution. Lectures will be presented on morphology, classification, behavior and ecology of the major groups. Procedures for collecting, preserving, mounting and identifying the different groups of aquatic arthropods will be covered in the laboratory sessions. Students will be required to develop and turn in an extensive collection, complete with field notes, of preserved and identified specimens of genera represented in the locale of Washington, DC.

Credits

4

Prerequisite

Concurrence of Course Director