Option 1. Online Lab Reviews.
Requirements
- This option is worth a maximum of about 50 points (partial credit will be awarded).
- Weekly review quizzes can be completed in the days following most labs.
- The anatomy and diversity images will be posted to the course web page on Fridays or Saturdays after lab (see center column on main course page).
- Answers must be submitted to Canvas. No grade adjustments or corrections will be made Your Canvas score for these is what you get.
- The last of these will be due April 30th
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Option 2. iNaturalist Invertebrate Image Collection.
Requirements
- This option is worth a maximum of 40 points (partial credit will be awarded).
- Take photos of wild invertebrates and submit to iNaturalist.org.
- Full credit requires images of 20 species, some of which must meet specific criteria for taxonomic and ecological categories.
- All photos must be identified by the student (not the iNaturalist community) to either Order (for insects, arachnids) or Class (everything else).
- All photos must have been taken during the semester by the student submitting the image. Only invertebrates photographed or collected from the wild will count.
- A completed Checklist must be submitted to obtain credit.
- See the Information and Instructions for the iNaturalist Photo Project for more detailed information about the requirments for this option.
- Deadline: Friday, April 25. All photos must be uploaded by this date and the checklist turned in.
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Option 3. Take a trip to the California coast over Spring Break.
Requirements
- The field notes are worth a maximum of 30 points (partial credit will be awarded).
- I will be there Sun-Tuesday, Mar 9-11 in the La Jolla area, California
- Students will need to provide their own transportation, camping supplies (or share with other students) and meals during the trip. There will also be vehicle fees at the campsite (and parking will be limited) and an entrance fee to the aquarium, if one wants.
- Students need not camp, and can just meet the rest at the tide pool sites.
- In order to obtain extra credit, students will write and turn in field notes. However, students are free to join me even if they dont want extra credit points.
- Download the Field Notes Guidelines
- Download some Annotated Sample Field Notes
- Download the Trip Information Handout
- I would like to know who plans to come (especially if camping) by no later than Friday, Feb 21 (we will likely meet after class on Friday)
- Deadline to submit Field Notes: Friday, April 4.
Tentative Dates and Locations
- I will meet anyone at Bird Rock in La Jolla on Sunday, Mar 9, at noon (it is around a 6 hour drive from Phoenix, so you will need to leave early if coming directly from here!)
- On Monday morning we can visit the Birch Aquarium ($28 per person with student ID) at 9:00 in the morning.
- On Monday afternoon around 12:30 pm we will visit Dike Rock/Scripps Beach.
- Activities for Tuesday to be determined.
- We will camp overnight (Sun & Mon night; optionally Tue night) at San Elijo State Beach:
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