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■大学生向けマリンサイエンスサマーコースのご案内（Marine Science Summer Courses in Bermuda）
1. Coral Reef Ecology 2013年7月7日～27日
2. Microbial Oceanography 2013年6月16日～7月6日
申し込み締め切り：4月15日
詳細：http://www.bios.edu/education/summer_courses.html
1. Coral Reef Ecology - 7th July – 27th July 2013
[image: Student diver]The Coral Reef Ecology (CRE) course exposes the
student to the reef ecosystem at all organizational levels from
physiological ecology through population biology and community structure to
ecosystem dynamics and ends with consideration of human impacts. The format
and content of the course is geared to upper level undergraduates and
graduate students, teachers and professionals. CRE is an intensive,
integrated program comprised of lectures, required reading, laboratory
exercises and field surveys. The lectures cover a broad range of relevant
topics and ecological principals in coral reef ecology that are
supplemented by readings from the primary literature with attention given
to active areas of research. The course is divided into 20 lectures (1 to
1.25 hours long), 9 field trips (4 hours each), 6 lab sessions (4-5 hours
each), 6 precepts (1 hour each), 3 seminars by BIOS scientists on current
research, a take home written exam, and an afternoon of oral presentations.
An additional 10-15 hours is taken to complete the working-group analyses
and presentations. Each student is graded on participation (50%), exam
(25%) and oral presentation (25%). All participants in the course must be
certified SCUBA divers with current certification, including the medical
examination.
The lab work is focused on training in practical techniques commonly used
in coral reef research: cell fractionation by centrifugation, enumeration
of zooxanthellae with a haemocytometer, chlorophyll analysis, determination
of coral surface area, and measurement of coral growth. Various field
techniques and subsequent lab analyses are used repetitively at different
sites so that each student has the opportunity to become familiar with the
following methods: video-taping reef transects to assess community
structure, quantification of reef fish community structure using a visual
census method, quantification of parrot fish feeding rates and social
interactions, quadrat sampling of reef algae, sorting, identification and
dry weight biomass estimation, quadrat sampling and measurement of juvenile
corals and gorgonians to construct size/frequency curves.
The most significant aspect of the course is a final synthesis of the data
sets collected from the different study reefs and laboratory experiments.
The students divide up into small groups to collate and analyze data sets
for a particular parameter (e.g. algal biomass and diversity or coral
community structure). They look for trends and patterns across reefs and
correlations with other data sets collected during the course. The groups
then present their analyses as final oral presentations (also requiring a
300 word abstract and a list of 4-5 references) and discuss their
conclusions with the rest of the class. The presentations are based on a
typical format for presenting scientific results to an audience and so are
designed to provide experience in communicating science.
2.Microbial Oceanography – 16th June – 6th July 2013
This 3 week intensive course is taught at a beginning graduate or
advanced undergraduate level. This course is broken into two major
components: a field/ laboratory component and a genomic/ bioinformatics
analysis component. The first two weeks of the course cover microbial
ecology and oceanographic topics such as physiology, microbial diversity
and growth within the context of biogeochemistry with particular emphasis
on the oligotrophic mid-ocean environment in the vicinity of Bermuda.
During this phase several molecular and microbiological techniques are
introduced and experimented with in the laboratory including fluorescent in
situ hybridization, terminal restriction length polymorphism and ordination
analyses. In the last week of the course the students are introduced to
genomic tools and the computational approaches useful in the analysis of
high-throughput sequencing data to address specific hypothesis relevant to
marine microbial ecology.
Microbial Oceanography at BIOS is presented as a balanced lecture-lab-field
and computer-lab course. The number of laboratory hours is approximately
equal to the number of lecture hours, and students participate in a variety
of field experiences from molecular assays to an oceanographic research
cruise. In addition, several meetings are devoted to topical issues current
in the literature. The lectures focus on how biological processes and the
ecological structure within the water column control the cycling of
important elements in the ocean such as carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus.
For the genomic/bioinformatics component of the course the students utilize
a variety of computational tools from genomic assays of the Sargasso Sea
Metagenome data to web accessible databases like the “Comprehensive
Microbial Resource”. The students are given metagenomic sequence data from
two 454- pyrosequencing runs generated for this class. They gain
experience with online bioinformatics tools used to analyze the data. In
addition, several meetings are devoted to topical issues current in the
literature. The lectures focus on how genomic data could be used to explore
environmental microbes or test a specific hypothesis.
Group research projects designed, conducted, and presented by the students
provide a hands-on demonstration of the ideas and techniques that were
taught during the class. These projects are carried out using field and
laboratory resources available to the course, as well as the BIOS library
resources, and are presented to the entire group at the end of the course.
The first two weeks comprise a total of 10 lectures (1- 1.5 hrs each)
were presented. These lectures are supplemented with six methodological lab
exercises (3- 5 hr each) and a field trip, aboard the R.V. Stommel and
Atlantic Explorer. Lecture and lab topics include: Traditional
microbiological methods, bacterial and virus enumeration, Polymerase chain
reaction, Fluorescent in situ hybridization, Terminal Restriction Fragment
Length Polymorphism, and ordination analysis. For the final week a total of
15 genomic focused lectures (1 hrs each) are presented. These lectures are
supplemented with 2 methodological computer lab exercises (3- 5 hr each).
Lecture and lab topics include: Introduction to traditional genomic
methods, Introduction to metagenomics, sequencing and closure methodology,
Genome annotation, Bacterial Phylogeny, Web-based genomic tools.
The student's grade is based on their performance in the lectures,
laboratory, and a class presentation.
Further details on both courses are available here:
http://www.bios.edu/education/summer_courses.html
An application form can be downloaded here:
http://www.bios.edu/education/sc_app.pdf
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お問い合わせ先：
e-mail education＠bios.edu.（＠を半角に変えてください）
Chloé Newcomb Hodgetts
Education Coordinator
Bermuda Institute of Ocean Science (BIOS), Inc
17 Biological Station
St George’s, GE 01 Bermuda
Telephone: 1-441-297-1880 Ext. #115
Fax: 1-441-297-8143
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