BioNB 323:
Methods in Animal Behavior
Fall 2007

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Lecture, Workshop, and Project Schedule

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Week	Date	Lectures	Projects	Workshops
1	Mon Aug. 27	Intro to course	Bioacoustics lab (due 9/24)	•Word+Excel, •Sample Data
	Wed Aug 29	•Research design •Intro to bioacoustics lab		Audio recording
2	Mon Sept. 3	Sound analysis		Raven Introduction
	Wed Sept. 5	Sound analysis cont.
3	Mon Sept. 10	Behavioral measures		Mapping
	Wed. Sept. 12
4	Mon. Sept. 17	Sampling methods		Sound playback
	Wed Sept. 19
5	Mon Sept. 24	Statistical methods	Stats problem set (due 10/10)	Minitab
	Wed Sept. 26	Stat methods cont.
6	Mon Oct. 1	Stat methods cont.		Tracking animals
	Wed Oct. 3
7	Mon Oct. 8	Fall Break
	Wed. Oct. 10	Intro to duck lab	Duck display lab (due 11/5)	Video recording (Benjamin Clock, Video curator at the Lab of Ornithology’s Macaulay Library)
8	Mon Oct. 15	Writing scientific papers		Capture/marking techniques (Abe Katzen)
	Wed Oct. 17
9	Mon Oct. 22			Olfactory methods (Field trip to New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva)
	Wed Oct. 24			Color analysis (Dr. Ellis Loew)
10	Mon Oct. 29
	Wed Oct. 31
11	Mon Nov. 5	Conflict and Hierarchies	Cricket lab (due 12/5)
	Wed. Nov. 7	Intro to Cricket Lab		Event recorders
12	Mon Nov. 12			Mammalian field studies (Dr. Paul Curtis)
	Wed Nov. 14			Aging and sexing
13	Mon Nov. 19
	Wed Nov. 21	Thanksgiving Break
14	Mon Nov. 26
	Wed Nov. 28			Sum-up

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