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ANT Course 2009: Tentative Working Schedule
updated19 May 2009
Day 1 Day 2 Aug. 6 (Thur) Aug. 7 (Friday) TRAVEL 7:30 Breakfast 8:00 8:30 Course intro BF, SC 9:00 Station introduction DW 9:30 BREAK (coffee and Donuts) 10:00 Morphology lecture 10:30 PW 11:00 Morphology lab 11:30 12:00 Lunch 12:30 1:00 Subfamily lecture PW 1:30 Subfamily lab 2:00 2:30 3:00 Intro to specimen and 3:30 data collecting BF 4:00 Demo of gc 4:30 and other field methods 5:00 Reception 5:30 6:00 Dinner 6:30 7:00 Seminar 1 7:30 Faunal surveys JL 8:00 Open: prepare for field trip or cont. morph lab
Day 3 Aug. 8 (Saturday) Breakfast
Day 4 Aug. 9 (Sunday)
Breakfast FIELD TRIP Collecting ants 101 Locality: SWRS Formicinae lect. MD Lab
Day 5 Day 6 Aug. 10 (Monday) Aug. 11 (Tuesday) FIELD TRIP: Breakfast 6:30 Localities: Foothills, Breakfast Limestone, Paradise Myrmicinae lect. SC Lab
Lunch Mounting demo Specimen preparation, labeling and subfamily identification
Lunch Misc. subfamilies lect. JL Lab Specimen preparation and identification
Lunch Ponerinae lect. BF Lab
Open or cont. lab work
Social Dinner Seminar 2 Ant communities MK Open or cont. lab work
Social Dinner Seminar 3 Molecular Methods CM Open or cont. lab work
Social Dinner Seminar 4 AS, MD, JK Ant Invasions Panel Open or cont. lab work
Lecture: Inferring species boundaries PW Social Dinner Seminar 5 Conservation BF Open or cont. lab work
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ANT Course 2007: Tentative Working Schedule Day 7 Aug. 12 (Wednesday) 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 12:00 12:30 1:00 1:30 2:00 2:30 3:00 3:30 4:00 4:30 5:00 5:30 6:00 6:30 7:00 7:30 8:00 Breakfast FIELD TRIP Localities: Rustlers Park, Pinery Canyon II Day 8 Aug. 13 (Thursday) Breakfast Internal Anatomy and Dissections: WT Lab Day 9 Aug. 14 (Friday) Breakfast Lab work Day 10 Aug. 15 (Saturday) Breakfast Breakfast Lab work specimen identification instructor review of coll. Load vans Depart for airport Day 11 Aug. 16 (Sunday) TRAVEL DAY
Optional Live colony workshop Ray Mendez Lunch Lab Lunch Lab work specimen identification Lunch Closing remarks (BF, SC) GRADUATION Evaluation forms, lab clean-up
Specimen preparation and identification
Social Dinner Seminar 6 Neurobiology, Behavior JT Open or cont. lab work
Social Dinner Seminar 7 Desert Ants BJ Open or cont. lab work
Social Dinner Seminar 8 Nest arch. WT Slave making ants HT Open or cont. lab work
Social Dinner Social (Dance: Bring Music)