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    Globally endangered sea turtles of the Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge: A Focus on Scientific Analysis
    Based on the sea turtle case, students will (1) work on a worksheet by analyzing existing survey data, (2) conduct a literature review of two relevant research, and (3) draft a proposal for a...

    Keywords: sea turtle conservationliterature reviewResearch methodsProposal writingPalmyra Atoll

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    Exercise on "Globally endangered sea turtles of the Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge: A Focus on Scientific Analysis"
    This data-driven endangered sea turtle exercise adapted from http://qubeshub.org was developed for undergraduate students in an online non-majors biology course as a final small group project.

    Keywords: Resource Type

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    Sea Turtles- A Case Study
    The case study on sea turtles will allow students to think about field work and examine graphs to understand data. It will provide experience for non-majors environmental science classes to think...
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    Globally endangered sea turtles of the Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge: A Focus on Scientific Analysis
    in this exercise students will make suggestions for designing a comprehensive research program, use survey data, critically analyze results, and devise methods for study.

    Keywords: case study

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    Competition under the Sea: Exploring the competitive interaction between native and non-native seagrasses in the Caribbean
    A mini-case study that uses real-world data to explore the competitive interaction among seagrasses.

    Keywords: ecologycompetitionconservation ecologywater resource managementseagrassCaribbean

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    How amphibians are impacted by Chytridiomycosis with Keely Rodriguez
    Keely Rodriguez is a Ph.D. student at the University of Nevada Reno in the Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology department. In this interview, Keely discusses her background and her...

    Keywords: Disease ecologyamphibians

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    The Polar Bear of the Salt Marsh? Warming Tolerance Limits of Local Species
    National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science- In the adaptation exercise, students explore connections between saltmarsh sparrow declines and declining populations of local species that live...

    Keywords: Coastal wetlandsConnecticutmanagementnortheastsea-level risesalt marsh

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    A Student's Guide to Tropical Marine Biology
    A Student's Guide to Tropical Marine Biology was curated and written entirely by students, and mostly edited by students at Keene State College that were enrolled in the course taught by Dr. Karen...

    Keywords: Student-Created

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    HHMI SEA-PHAGES and GENES: Course-based UREs Designed for All
    The HHMI Science Education Alliance (SEA) program supports a community of faculty members and institutions embed research as a fundamental component of early undergraduate science curricula.

    Keywords: course-based research experiences (CUREs)SEA-PHAGES

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    Search for the Missing Sea Otters
    National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science- using a progressive disclosure format, this case study teaches students how to apply ecological principles to a real-life ecological problem.

    Keywords: Community Ecologypopulation ecologypredationAlaskaSea otterkiller whaleOrcinus orcamarine mammalkelp bedpredatorecological energetics

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    The Polar Bear of the Salt Marsh?
    National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science- in this interrupted case study, students follow a young naturalist as she explores why saltmarsh sparrows are increasingly rare in coastal...

    Keywords: Coastal wetlandsConnecticutmanagementnortheastsea-level risesalt marsh

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    Species Conservation Management Plan Report and Class Exercise
    In this project, students work in pairs to become an expert in their assigned IUCN Red List endangered species. They are charged to create a well-researched, written conservation management plan....

    Keywords: ecologyconservation4DEE Frameworkmanagement planspeed dating exercise

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    Biodiversity Conservation in Agriculture
    Biodiversity is decreasing rapidly each year and agriculture is a large contributor. In order to minimize biodiversity loss, we must study how local and landscape management in agriculture impact...

    Keywords: conservationagricultureBiodiversitybiodiversity conservationagricultural conservation

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    Human Dimensions in Amphibian Conservation: Addressing Threats
    This module introduces students to the theme of human dimensions in conservation and provides them with an opportunity to engage in practices related to social science research.

    Keywords: conservationhuman dimensionsamphibianssocial scienceconceptual modelstakeholder analysisopen standardsresearch proposalSPARCnet

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    Diving into Deep Sea Data
    A module that combines NOAA's Okeanos Explorer and the iDigBio Portal to explore the deep sea!

    Keywords: Querying databasesremote sensingnatural history collectionsfishesscientific name5ESpeciesichthyologydeep sea

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    Walkabout: An Easy to Use, Experiential Learning Activity for Applying Abstract Concepts to the Real-World
    Students can have difficulty recognizing examples of course concepts in the real-world. They particularly struggle with phenomena that are ambiguously defined, have mimics, or are hard to...

    Keywords: data gatheringgreen technologyobservations

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    Using drones for conservation work with Eben Broadbent
    Eben N. Broadbent, PhD, is an assistant professor of forest ecology & geomatics in the School of Forest Resources and Conservation at the University of Florida, with a PhD in Biology (Ecology &...

    Keywords: ecologyconservation ecologydronesspatial ecology

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    Phage Discovery Videos
    A compilation of videos to support teaching the concepts and protocols for discovering and working with phage.
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    Tell Them We Don't Want to Leave: The Marshallese and Sea-Level Rise (2014-10) | SESYNC
    This case study will expose students to the ways in which social-environmental systems operate and connect across different scales.

    Keywords: case studysocio-environmental data

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    Laboratory Math
    Explanations and demonstrations on how to use mathematical equations for various laboratory purposes, including those specific to SEA-PHAGES (such as phage titer calculations) and those that are...
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