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style="FONT-FAMILY: Courier"><FONT face="Arial Black"><U><FONT size=3>Summer
course: Marine Botany<?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = O
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Courier"><FONT face="Arial Black"><U>Where:</U> Friday
Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington<O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Courier"><FONT face="Arial Black"><U>When:</U> June 15-July
17, 2009<O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Courier"><FONT face="Arial Black"><U>Instructors:</U> Dr.
Charles O’Kelly okelly@hawaii.edu</FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Courier"><FONT face="Arial Black">Dr. Paul Gabrielson
drseaweed@hotmail.com<O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Courier"><FONT face="Arial Black"><U>For Whom:</U> Graduate
students and advanced undergraduate students (juniors,
seniors).<O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></P>
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color=#ff0000><U>Application Deadline:</U> 1 February
2009<O:P></O:P></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Courier"><FONT face="Arial Black">The theme of the course is
“principles, methods, and applications of marine algal biodiversity studies”, in
particular the macro- and microalgae of benthic environments. This is a hands-on
field and laboratory intensive course.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Students will learn classical and contemporary methods to characterize,
identify and classify algae; the theories underlying the methods; application of
biodiversity information in research (e.g. benthic ecology, cellular evolution),
regulatory (e.g. invasive species) and industrial (e.g. biofuels) settings.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Students will gain practical experience
in tools that are applicable worldwide, such as: specimen collection,
preservation, and databasing; light and electron microscopy; DNA isolation and
sequencing; computational approaches to phylogeny reconstruction. Field work
will be extensive, as the diverse and species-rich aquatic habitats on and
around San Juan Island are ideal for the examination of both macroalgal and
microalgal diversity.<O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Courier"><FONT face="Arial Black">Course structure: Lectures
offered Mon. through Sat., 2 lectures/day except Saturday and on days with field
work. Extensive lab time emphasizing tools and techniques to identify, culture
and curate algae collected from natural field populations, including DNA
extaction, amplification, sequencing and phylogenetic analysis. Numerous field
trips to various marine and brackish water habitats around San Juan I. and to
the exposed, outer coast. Book for the course is: Keys to the Seaweeds and
Seagrasses of British Columbia, Southeast Alaska, Washington and Oregon by
Gabrielson, Widdowson & Lindstrom (2006). Enrollment limited to
12.<O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Courier"><FONT face="Arial Black">Financial Aid: Available
from the Friday Harbor Labs (see WEB address below). For graduate students who
are members of the Phycological Society of America, travel funds are available
to attend a course at a biological station: </FONT><A
href="http://www.psaalgae.org/soc/croasdale.shtm"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #001ff0"><FONT
face="Arial Black">http://www.psaalgae.org/soc/croasdale.shtm</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Courier"><FONT face="Arial Black">For more information about
the course, financial aid, and the Friday Harbor Laboratories, visit the FHL
home page: </FONT><A href="http://depts.washington.edu/fhl/"><SPAN
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face="Arial Black">http://depts.washington.edu/fhl/</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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