instructors
Professor of Record: Dr. David Gold
Carina Fish
Cait Livsey
Veronica Padilla Vriesman
The goal of this course is to learn about the principles, concepts, and methods central to biogenic calcite. You will read relevant literature, listen to guest speakers, and engage with the material by having discussions, doing activities, and workshopping ideas. We hope that through the course, you will hone your skill-sets as scientists that study and use marine calcifiers in some way.
MONDAY
Discuss the reading(s) assigned for the week’s topic. Please come to class with annotations from the reading so that you are prepared to discuss objectives of the study, hypotheses tested, methods used, and major takeaways.
WEDNESDAY
Listen to a guest speaker give a talk relevant to the topic of the week.
FRIDAY
Do an activity/discussion/workshop-style activity, led by a different member of the class each week.
Course is designed to be hands-on and student-run rather than lecture-based. Discussions and collaborative work are central to the vision of this course, and we will strive to do this as effectively as possible in a remote format.
ZOOM TIMES
Mondays & Fridays at 10-11am
Wednesdays VARIABLE, depending on the speaker's availability (usually 10:30am, 11am, or 12pm)
1. LESSON PLAN
All course attendees will be expected to lead the class on the Friday of the week they sign up for. This is meant to be as much of a learning opportunity for you as it is for the class. As such, please take time to explore novel teaching practices that are best suited for online-instruction. Implementing these new best-practices in a supportive environment will also be part of the learning opportunity. each course participant will give feedback on an element of the lesson plan they enjoyed and thoughtfully specify one way the lesson plan could be tweaked. Feedback will be during the last 5 minutes of the Friday time block.
2. INSRUCTION MANUAL
The primary deliverable for this course is an "instruction manual" on one method, tool, or technique that is central to biogenic calcite. It is meant as an opportunity for you to become an expert on a technique and to compile a comprehensive "how to" guide for yourself and others in the filed. This should be written like a methods paper, with background information, relevant examples, a walk-through of the technique/process, with references. This should be in sufficient detail that someone without a background in the technique could follow it.
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