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Cherie
Briggs, Teaching
Current Courses, Fall 2005:
IB 153: Population and Community
Ecology
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2-3:30, 219 Dwinelle
co-taught with Mary Power
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IB/ERG/ESPM c205: Quantitative Methods in
Ecological and Environmental Modeling
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12:30-2
Tuesdays: 306 Wellman; Thursdays 3056 VLSB
co-taught Fall 2005 with Wayne Getz and Zack Powell
website for my
part of the course
Graduate course taught every fall semester by some subset of:
Cherie Briggs, Wayne Getz, and Zack Powell
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Past and Future Courses:
Spring 2005:
IB 253:
Advanced Topics in Population and Community Ecology
Spring 2004:
IB 24, sec. 1: Freshman Seminar: Disease, Ecology, and
Man
Tuesdays 4-6PM, 4110 VLSB, 8 weeks beginning 1/20/03
with help from John Latto
Description:
Recently we have seen the appearance of apparently new diseases such as
AIDS, SARS, and BSE (mad cow disease) and a resurgence of some older
diseases such as tuberculosis and malaria. In most cases understanding the
reasons behind an increase in the prevalence of such diseases requires an
understanding of ecology. In this class we will use a variety of case
studies to look at how changing disease ecology influences disease
prevalence. We will look at how such changing patterns of disease have
influenced history (measles, smallpox, bubonic plague etc.) and at how and
why modern diseases are emerging in both man and wildlife.
Spring
2003: IB 250:
Seminar in Ecology: Disease Ecology
Spring 2003 : Seminar in Ecology, Spatial
Models in Ecology
Tuesdays 4-6PM, 4110 VLSB
Description: This
seminar will start by reviewing the various approaches that ecologists have
used to model spatial processes (e.g. spatial heterogeneity, habitat
fragmentation, and limited movement of individuals): patch-type models,
reaction-diffusion models, cellular automata, etc.
We will then discuss spatial models of a number of types of systems, and
talk about how explicit consideration of spatial processes may or may not
alter model predictions. These will include: single-species metapopulations, predator-prey, parasitoid-host, and
disease-host systems, competition, and multispecies
communities.
Syllabus; Website by BlackBoard
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