LEC # | TOPICS | TERM PROJECT DATES | HOMEWORK DATES | RECITATION TOPICS |
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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 |
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