Field Ecology at the evergreen state college

 

    The art and practice of ecology afield

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 2010!   This year we study in forests of the Pacific NW!                                                                                                         

 

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FACULTY

Dylan Fischer

Alison Styring

 

PAST STUDY SITES

Capitol Forest, WA

Sinlahekin Wildlife Area,WA
Glacial Heritage Prairie
Nisqually River, WA
Cibola NWR, AZ
Weber River, UT
Grand Canyon, AZ
West Fork Oak Crk, AZ

Superstition Mountains, AZ

Metolius River, OR

Mount Rose, WA

B&B fire, complex  OR

Cibola National Wildlife Area, AZ
 

 

 

       
 
For more information contact: Dylan Fischer

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WELCOME

Application Deadline Extended!

Our Application for Spring 2013 is available here

 

This is the home-site for Field Ecology, a repeating program at the Evergreen State College!  Our current program s being offered as a spring program in 2013 focusing on Forests and Prairies of the PNW.

This program focuses on intensive group and individual field research in current topics in ecology. Students intensively use the primary literature and student-driven field research to address observations about ecological composition, structure, and function in natural environments. Independent and group research projects in relevant natural settings form the core of our curriculum. In the past our program has ranged from the South Puget Sound to the Southwestern US. In 2008, our program had three distinct research sites ranging from the South Puget Sound prairies to the east side of the North Cascades (the Sinlahekin Wildlife Area near Loomis, WA). In 2010 (Spring) Our program once again conducted research at Glacial Heritage Prairie and Preserve (WA), The Grand Canyon (AZ), and Mt Rose (WA Olympic Mountains). In all Field Ecology programs, research projects are quickly developed, and expanded on, in a fast-paced, big-ideas, constructive environment, where the course forms a community working to make each project better. Research projects presentations and writing workshops build these ideas into workable products to share with the outside world. Science is a creative endeavor at its core, and we capitalize on that by focusing on application of new ideas in a synergistic interdisciplinary environment.

In 2008 and 2010 (Spring) we focused on plant and ecosystem ecology. This year (2010 Fall-2011 Spring) we again focused on both Ornithology (Birds) and Plant Ecology. Our work has spanned projects in community ecology, ecosystem ecology, physiology and plant-herbivore interactions, and trophic interactions. Topics of study in all programs include forest structure, ecological restoration; riparian ecology; fire history; ethnobotany; insect-plant interactions; disturbance ecology; and the broad fields of biocomplexity and ecological interactions. These topics and student projects are crystallized through paper-writing workshops in which group and individual papers are be produced. We emphasize identification of original field research problems in diverse habitats, experimentation, data analyses, oral presentation of findings, and writing in journal format.

Check out the description for our current upcoming program here: http://www.evergreen.edu/catalog/2012-13/programs/fieldecologyforests-7762

 

 

 

 


 

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Research Groups

Avian Ecology and Behavior

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Ethnobotany Gradients

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Ecological Gradients

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Permanent Plots

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Keystone Species

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Ecosystem Science

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Stream Team

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Plant-animal Interactions

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