Field excursions include trips to Lake Erie, ONU Nature Center, Killdeer Plains and Big Island Wildlife Areas and nearby nature centers. These experiences are supplemented with lectures about birds, bird banding and the student preparing a museum study skin. Principles of radiological health and safety are examined along with the biological effects of radiation. Field collecting methods including seining, barge and boat electrofishing of various habitats. Fish identification and aquatic habitat study is stressed.
Lectures supplement the extensive field and laboratory work.
A Fall registration course conducted during the two weeks prior to the beginning of classes in September. Course is conducted and students housed at the ONU Metzger Nature Center in eastern Ohio for most of those two weeks. Limited to 10 students. Emphasis on specific organisms and how they interact with their particular environment. Students participate in a two week field trip to a marine environment organized in conjunction with the Biology 271 class.