Biology 696: Fisheries
Management Laboratory Syllabus (Fall 2004)
Graduate Assistant: Jeffrey Falke (jfalke@ksu.edu)
116 Bushnell Annex
532-6616
Undergraduate Assistant: Courtney Franssen (cmf8778@ksu.edu)
Labs (100 points, 10 points each)
Notebook (10 points)
The notebook should be a three ring binder with dividers that you will keep all lab materials in, including handouts and copies of field data sheets.
Participation (10 points)
All labs must be turned in on time. Late papers will not be graded.
Calculator
Writing utensil
Three-ring binder (3 – 4”)(required)
Appropriate clothing incase of bad weather when sampling
Waders
Fisheries Management Laboratory Schedule (tentative)
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Date |
Topic |
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Aug. 23* |
Spreadsheets, graphics, linear regression, and data management |
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Aug. 30 |
Field Trip to Tuttle Creek Reservoir (passive vs. active sampling methods) |
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Sept. 6 |
Labor Day |
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Sept. 13 |
Field Trip to Carnahan Creek (population estimates using depletion) |
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Sept. 20 |
Field Trip to Pottawatomie State Lake II (population estimation using mark-recapture) |
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Sept. 27* |
Growth, Mortality and Recruitment estimation |
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Oct. 4* |
Food habitat analysis, Quiz 1 |
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Oct. 11 |
Student holiday |
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Oct. 18 |
Field trip to Milford Hatchery |
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Oct. 25* |
Population estimation and power analysis, condition indices, Quiz 2 |
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Nov. 1* |
Field Trip to Kansas River (sampling large rivers) |
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Nov. 8* |
Stock density indices; catch per unit effort (CPUE) confidence intervals, Quiz 3 |
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Nov. 15* |
Length-weight relationship, Quiz 4 |
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Nov. 22 |
Age and growth, Quiz 5 |
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Nov. 29 |
Fecundity and gonadosomatic index (GSI), Quiz 6 |
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Dec. 6 |
TBA, Quiz 7 |
* Computer-based exercises. Class may meet in Hale Library (room TBA)