2010 Lecture Outline

Below is the 2010 Lecture Outline. The 2011 Lecture Outline will become available sometime in April 2011. Please use this schedule below as an example of what you might expect for the 2011 Course!


Sunday, June 13

Welcome Barbecue!
  • We will pick you up from the Heritage Center at 4:00 p.m.

Monday, June 14

Introduction to Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry
Jim Ehleringer, University of Uath
Concepts
Thure Cerling, University of Utah

Tuesday, June 15

Meteoric Water and Plant and Soil Water
Todd Dawson, University of California, Berkeley

Wednesday, June 16

Plant Carbon and Carbon in Terrestrial Ecosystems
Jim Ehleringer, University of Utah

Evening Lecture

CAM and Cactus
Dave Williams, University of Wyoming
Pizza in the Lobby

Thursday, June 17

Lecture 1 - Tree Rings, Carbon Isotopes, and Climate
Steve Leavitt, University of Arizona
Lecture 2 - Leaf Water, Organic Oxygen, and Climate
John Roden, Southern Oregon University

Friday, June 18

Carbon Dioxide and Carbon Cycle
Dave Bowling, University of Utah

Friday Afternoon

QAQC and Statistics
J. Renee Brooks, EPA Corvallis

Saturday, June 19

Biomarkers and Environmental Reconstruction
Kate Freeman, Pennsylvania State University

Evening Presentations

Group BBQ on Patio

Sunday, June 20/h3>
  • hike, bike, bird watch, and picnic in Millcreek Canyon
  • horseshoe tournament
  • dutch-oven dinner at Ehleringer's cabin

Monday, June 21

Biogeochemistry of the Oceans
Howie Spero, University of California, Davis

Tuesday, June 22

Biology of Oceans
Brian Popp, University of Hawaii

Tuesday Evening

Terrestrial Nitrogen Ecology
Jed Sparks, Cornell University
Cafe Rio Salads in the Lobby

Wednesday, June 23

Lecture 1 - Reconstructing Diet and Tissue Turnover in Animals
Thure Cerling, University of Utah
Lecture 2 - Food Web, Migration, and Plant-Animal Interactions
Keith Hobson, Environment Canada

Thursday, June 24

Lecture 1 - Water at Landscape and Regional Scales
Gabe Bowen, Purdue University
Lecture 2 - Urban Ecology
Diane Pataki, University of California, Irvine
Utah Arts Festival Tickets

Friday, June 25

Food
Lesley Chesson, University of Utah
Forensics
Jim Ehleringer, University of Utah

Evening Presentations

Graduation Dinner