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Syllabus for Prairie Ecosystems
- March 27th, Intro day "How to save the world, First steps" Lecture Notes
 PrairieIntro.ppt
Section 1: Prairie, A Natural History
- March 29th, The dominant plants of the North American prairie Chapters 1 and C (
 WhereIsHere1.ppt) and EncyclopediaChicagoHistory
- March 31th (Sat), local walks and first photos (for more details see Naturalist Guide on Assignments page) Try local Burnham Praire 49th/Cornell
- April 3rd, Digging into the Past Chapter 2 (DiggingIntoPast.ppt and movies tecall1_4.avi, NDVIglobemovie.mov)
- April 5th, The Geography of Grasses Chapter 3 GeographyofGrass.ppt
- Naturalist guide Part A due (5 pictures and your account)
- April 7th (Sat) Midewin Prairie
- April 10th, Fire and Secrets of the Soil chapter 4SectetsOfSoil.ppt Note on Garlic Mustard! original paper or review GarlicMustard.pdf
- April 12th, Abiotic Soil types, Home on the Range chapter 5, Animals of the prairie, Role of disturbance from herbivores HomeOnTheRangea.ppt
- April 14th (Sat), Morton Arboretum Leave 7:45am Quad Gate on 57th. also Step it Up! 12-2 Daley Plaza.
- April 17th, Prairie waterways and wetlands Chapter 6 (sorry it was a bit depressing DeadZone!)WaterOfLife.ppt
- April 19th, Oak Savannas Chapter 7Quercus.ppt
- April 21st (Sat), Earth Day! many options, what do you suggest? Green Festival at McCormik Place Sat or Sunday
- April 24th, Farming and looking ahead Chapter 8-9AgricultureandPrairies.ppt
- April 26th, Midterm exammidtermResults.ppt - old school style short answer
 Midterm.doc in class results
- April 28th (Sat), Indiana Dunes National Park confirmed prairie tour
- May 1st, Thomas Whitlam "Community and ecosystem consequences of climate change using our work on poplars and pinyon pine"
 Mueller et al. 2005 Journal of Ecology.pdf Gitlin et al. 2006 Conservation Biology.pdf Brown et al. Science 2001.pdf- May 3rd, Ecological Succession, Chicago Wilderness article Henry Chandler Cowles of the University of Chicago 1899 Botanical Gazette Cowels.ppt
- May 5th (Sat FieldTrips) Indiana Dunes Succession tour confirmed 10am-12pm leave 8:45am 57th Uni gate.
Section 2: Agriculture and development and Sustainability
- May 8th, What's in the Eco Footprint? How can we reduce it? How does yours compare to your family? to other countries? Early paper ecofoot.pdf
- May 10th, Biofuels lecture Biofuel.ppt details biofuel
- May 12th (Sat) open, May 13th (Sun) consider Laurie Garden Millenium Park tour 10am
- May 15th, Farm Bill (Geoff Morris) article by Michael Pollan
- May 17th, Local Prairie Birds, migration, habitat etc. Aaron Turkewitz (MGCB)
- May 19th (Sat), open
- May 22nd, Campus garden walk Richard Bumstead (campus species list) lets press him about this proposalPRAIRIE GARDEN.pdf
- May 24th, 10min project PRESENTATIONS Bucky, Green Roof group, Matt. April
- May 26th (Sat), open May 27th (Sun) Trip with Liam Heneghan to Mettawa with some brush cutting! SEE THE Cicadas from Mettawa
- May 29th, 10min project PRESENTATIONS Francis, David, Janine, Araba, Aaron, Kate Norland, Andrew , Kat
- May 31th, 10min project PRESENTATIONS - Jim, Amanda, 63rd group, Julia
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