Saturday, February 25, 2012

Extra office hours, homework, exam

Reviewing for the first exam (Tuesday 2/28 9:00am!) and have some questions?

The TA's are holding extra office hours so we can help clarify things that you run into and are unsure about.

Asya: 11-noon on Monday in Geochem 109
Meghan: Monday 2-3 science center
Harmony: Sunday 10-12 am SciLi lobby
Maddie: Sunday 5-6 in the Rock Lobby
Manvir: Monday 4-5:30 in the Rock Lobby

Don't forget to pick up your homework #2 from the Science Center (during the weekend) or Walter Hall (during the week).

Professor Witman's tips on studying:
1. Study your lecture notes 1st, know them! (L1-­‐8)
2. Be able to interpret graphs,conceptual models
3. Practice population growth questions at end of Gotelli chapters 1 & 2 (ie 1.1-­‐1.4, 2.1-­‐.2.3)
4. Responsible for Gotelli reading, Discussion papers
1-­‐9 (abstracts, and examples given in lectures), reading papers a-­‐c. Give last study priority to Discussion papers.
5. Be able to define terms, concepts etc.
6. Not responsible for equations
1.8, 1.13, 1.14, 2.4 -­‐2.8 in Gotelli

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Welcome to the blog

Hi everyone - welcome to the Principles of Ecology!

Sorry we didn't tell you about this sooner - it hadn't been set up for this semester yet.

Basically, we aim to have this be a resource for you as you take the class. We'll post advice and announcements.

Please check out some of the posts that we wrote for the class last year.