Coral Reef Ecology Summer Course at ASU BIOS

This intensive course aims to study how the environment impacts reef benthic communities and the fundamental processes of coral reef metabolism. Course logistics include readings, lectures, discussions/presentations, and extensive laboratory and fieldwork. Next to gaining a solid understanding of coral reef ecology and reef functional processes, students gain hands-on experience with state-of-the-art instrumentation and techniques for collecting and analyzing reef community and environmental data, including building underwater photomosaics, measuring current profiles, characterizing the underwater light field, characterizing water quality, and quantifying rates of primary production and respiration using traditional and advanced approaches. Prerequisites include university-level biol...