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LEC # TOPICS TERM PROJECT DATES HOMEWORK DATES RECITATION TOPICS
1 Introduction: what is ecology? Term project out
2 Evolution of Earth and the biosphere Homework 1 out MIT libraries
3 How to be alive/thermodynamics of life Term project topic due
4

CI lecture: getting started with the term project

Lecturer: Harlan Breindel, MIT Writing Center

 Term project topic back Literature reviews and TA review of materials
5 Primary productivity I
6 Primary productivity II Homework 1 due Review for quiz
7 Biogeochemical cycles Term project description due
8 Global carbon cycle Homework 1 back Figures and technical writing, TA review
9 Quiz 1 Term project description back Homework 2 out
10 Limiting factors and Redfield No recitation
11 Ecosystem experiments/geoengineering Term project introduction due CI: lecture
12 Secondary productivity/food webs
13 Population growth Term project introduction back Homework 2 due Review for quiz
14 Chemostats/life tables
15 Human population growth Term project proposal due Homework 2 back Breindel: revising a document
16 Quiz 2 Homework 3 out
17 Competition and the niche Breindel: structuring and oral presentation
18 Predation/symbiosis/mutualism Term project proposal back
19 Biogeography Review for quiz
20

A thought experiment in sustainability

Guest lecture: John Sterman, MIT Sloan School

 Homework 3 due
21 Quiz 3 Q and A, office hours
22 Project presentations Term project complete due Homework 3 back Project presentations
23 Project presentations (cont.)
24-25 Project presentations (cont.) No recitation