Date		Lab Topic
Jan.	10	Course Introduction,  Lab One (Due 2/5) Part one: Design of ecological experiments
	15	MLK Jr. Holiday
	17	Part Two: Sampling Design
	22	Part Three: Field sampling: Municipal Park
		Soil sampling – comparison of organisms
	24	Part Three: lab sampling and data collection
	29	Part Four: Analysis of data
		Introduction to statistics
	31	Part Five: Data write-up
		Discussion of ecological literature
Feb.	5	Lab two (Due 2/12): Population density and biotic sampling (quadrat methods)
		Field trip: Municipal park
	7	Data analysis and write-up
	12	Lab three (Due 2/26): Mark-recapture techniques
	14	Mark-recapture lab write-up
		Discussion of group projects
		Group Project Proposals Due
	19-21	Mardi Gras
	26	Lab Four (Due 3/12): Lake ecosystem structure
		Field trip: Municipal Park
	28	Part two: Data collection
Mar.	5	Data analysis and write-up
	7	Lab Five (Due 3/19): Analysis of aquatic productivity, light/dark bottle technique
	12	Data collection
	14	Data analysis and write-up
	19	Lab Six (Due 3/26): age structure and survivorship
		Field trip: Mobile Cemetery
	21	Age structure analysis and write-up
	26	Lab Seven (Due  5/2): Plant competition
		Set-up
	28	Group project work
		Bring any results to date and a progress report
Apr.	2-9	Spring Break and Easter Holiday
	11	Lab Eight (Due 4/23): Arthropod community structure
		Field trip: Municipal Park
	16	Community structure data collection
	18	Community structure data analysis and write-up
	23	Lab Seven (Conclusion) (Due 5/2)
		Plant competition analysis
		Measurements and write-up
	25	COOL Day
	30	Data analysis
May	2	Group project Presentations and final write-up (due at end of lab 5/2)