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    Assessing River Herring Migration Using Nonparametric Analysis
    In this lesson, users will play the role of a fisheries biologist by tackling a contemporary fisheries research problem by performing data normality tests, data transformations, nonparametric...

    Keywords: testR Markdownfisheries scienceanadromouschesapeake bayriver herringfisheries managementelectronic fish counterblueback herringalewifevirginiachickahominyriverwalker's damnonparametricwilcoxonsignedranknormalityfish migration

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    My Fish Tank: An Active Learning Activity for Bacterial Nitrogen Metabolism
    This active learning activity introduces students to the second part of the nitrogen cycle, nitrification. In terrestrial and aquatic environments, bacteria from the Nitrosomonas and Nitrobacter...

    Keywords: nitrogen cyclenitrificationnitrifying bacteria

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    2012-Murray_Bourne-Modeling fish stocks
    Discusses many models of harvesting and consequences.

    Keywords: fishlogisticmanagementsusustainable developmentharvestfish stockoverpopulatedunsustainable

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    Electronic Lab Notebooks: Options for Building Data Management and Quantitative Reasoning Skills
    Presentation on Electronic Notebooks and Lab Archives given at the 2019 BioQUEST & QUBES Summer Workshop

    Keywords: 2019 QUBES/BioQUEST Summer Workshopelectronic notebookselectronic lab notebookslab archives

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    Understanding Fish Habitat Selection Using Snorkel Surveys
    Identifying the habitat selection patterns of aquatic species is necessary for protecting threatened and endangered native fishes, as well as for producing satisfying and exciting sport fisheries....

    Keywords: fishfisheriesstreamshabitatRiver Field Studies NetworkResource Selection

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    Fish, forests, and phosphorus: How do tropical fish, rainforest canopies, and volcanic groundwater inputs affect stream phosphorus cycling?
    Rainforest stream nutrient concentrations vary with groundwater source, and different stream fish species feed on aquatic and/or terrestrial prey. Explore how phosphorus cycling changes with stream...

    Keywords: nutrient cyclesBiogeochemistrykeystone speciesfood webFunctional Diversity

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    2013-Murray_Bourne-Modeling fish stocks
    It is possible to have a sustainable fishing industry with proper planning and strictly enforced quotas.

    Keywords: logisticFishingfishing industryfish managementfood availabilityreeding ratewater temperature

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    2014-John_Cimbala-Dynamic System Response
    In this learning module, we discuss the dynamic system response of sensors and their associated electronic circuits.

    Keywords: sensor networksoscillationssystem responseelectronic circuit

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    2000-Idels-Wang-Harvesting Fisheries Management Strategies With Modified Effort Function
    This study concludes that a control parameter beta (the magnitude of the effect of the fish population size on the fishing effort function E), changes not only the rate at which the population goes...

    Keywords: sustainabilityfishFishingmanagementharvestfisherstrategyoverfishing

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    Have fish assemblages recovered from the legacy of acid rain?
    This module provides a framework for upper-level ecology students to learn about limiting factors for stream fish diversity, using data from Shenandoah National Park and gaining skills in...

    Keywords: Problem based learningdiversitycooperative learninglimiting factorsaquatic ecosystemspyramid examlab reports

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    2012-Yuan_Yuan-A coupled plankton system with instantaneous and delayed predation
    We present two simple plankton population models: one has instantaneous predation, another has delayed predation.

    Keywords: phytoplanktonbifurcationorbitsherbivorous zooplanktoneffect of fishmaturation time delay

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    Investigating the ecological value of migratory fishes on stream ecosystems in southern Appalachia
    Using the Ecological Society of America’s Four-Dimensional Ecology Education (4DEE) framework, students apply ecological concepts such as energy flow, nutrient cycling, migration, and climate...

    Keywords: Stream ecologynutrient cycling4DEE Frameworkfish migration

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    Scientist Spotlights: Integrating Themes of Diversity and Inclusion with Course Content
    The Scientist Spotlights Initiative empowers middle/high school, college, and university science educators to implement inclusive curricula that help ALL students see themselves in science.

    Keywords: communitydiversityinclusivity

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    Inexpensive Cell Migration Inquiry Lab using Zebrafish
    Cell migration is an important and interesting topic that has the potential to engage students in cell biology by its intrinsically active nature. However, most ways to investigate cell migration...

    Keywords: CytoskeletonCell migrationmodel organisms

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    All About Cod For Grades 3-5
    This activity uses background from The Cod's Tale by Mark Kurlansky and then uses a simple story to engage students in solving problems using several operations and algebraic thinking math standards.

    Keywords: fishNIMBiosword problemsfractionsfish harvestinggrades 3-5simple data plots

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    1989-EY_Rodin-S_Jaques-Countercurrent Oxygen Exchange in the Swim Bladders of Deep-Sea Fish
    Oxygen diffuses from lungs into blood, nutrients diffuse from intestinal tracts into blood and from blood into various cells, and waste products diffuse from cells back into blood.

    Keywords: fishCell Membraneflowbloodbladdercountercurrent

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    1-127-FishHarvesting-ModelingScenario
    We offer students a harvesting model for operating a fishery over a 25 year horizon and ask them to write a report on optimal harvesting policy with their analyses for fishing industry experts (not...

    Keywords: Management Of Dataoptimal controlfisherieslogisticharvestingmaximum sustainable yield

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    Data on Dead Zones and a Scientist Spotlight Featuring Benjamin Negrete, Jr.
    In this lesson, students plot data and interpret graphs of the metabolic responses of fish to hypoxic conditions. Then, students view and reflect on an interview with fish ecophysiologist Benjamin...

    Keywords: fishgraphinggraph interpretationhuman-environmental interactionsdata literacysocial justicemarineCODAP

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    1-034-T-FishMixing-ModelingScenario
    This activity gives students a chance to build the underlying differential equation and/or difference equation for a mixing problem using tangible objects (fish) and a student-designed restocking...

    Keywords: simulationfishFishingmixingrestocking

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    1-135-FishHarvesting-ModelingScenario
    This short activity will walk students through a guided list of questions to help them to understand how the stability of equilibrium changes with changes in a model parameter, in this case the...

    Keywords: population dynamicsfishstabilitybifurcationharvest

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