Any students interested in natural history, biology, ecology, evolution, and bees. This is a graduate level course. The three-week field course provides an opportunity to study the flora and fauna of marine, freshwater and terrestrial environments of the High Arctic. Based at the Igloolik Research Centre, the course includes lectures, field exercises and student projects. Signature of course coordinator is required for course selection.
Students are responsible for cost of food and transportation.
Detailed information is available from the Department of Zoology. This course is listed in the Ontario Field Course program. This course must be recorded as part of your Fall course selection and tuition and compulsory fees will be calculated accordingly. The tropical ecology course is an intensive two week course in the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua. Studies focus on the natural regeneration of the rainforest after Hurricane Joan hit in 1988 destroying over 500,000 hectares of primary rainforest.