Department of Evolution & Ecology
Courses with Teaching Assistantships
and/or Readerships
Course Offering for Fall 2012 - Spring 2013 (Updated:
03/05/2012)
Note: Teaching faculty are subject to change.
BIS 2B: "Principles of Ecology and Evolution" Instructors: Susan Keen and Sharon
Strauss (Fall 2012); Instructors: Jay Rosenheim and TBA (Winter 2013); Instructors:
Rick Grosberg and Jay Stachowicz (Spring 2013)
5 units: 4 classroom hours (3 hrs lecture/1 hr discussion) and a 3 hours lab.
Offered each quarter of each year.
Catalog description: "Introduction to basic principles of ecology and evolutionary
biology, focusing on the fundamental mechanisms that generate and maintain
biological diversity across scales ranging from molecules and genes to global
processes and patterns."
BIS 122P: (see Bodega Marine Laboratory Program) "Population Biology and
Ecology/Advanced Laboratory Topics" Instructor: Steven Morgan
5 units: Lab - 12 hours; discussion - 1 hour
Offered Spring Quarter each year
Catalog description: "Residence at Bodega Marine Laboratory required. Training
in scientific research, from hypothesis testing to publication, including methods of
library research. Research related to topic covered in course 122. Final
presentation both oral and written."
EVE 12: "Life in the Sea" Instructor: Susan Williams
3 units: Offered Spring Quarter 2013
Catalog description: "Diversity of life in the sea; adaptations to physical/chemical
ocean environment; marine science research methods; utilization of living marine
resources by humans; factors and processes that influence diversity of sea life,
including humans."
EVE 100: "Introduction to Evolution" Instructors: TBN (Fall 2012); Graham Coop (Winter
2013); David Begun (Spring 2013).
4 units: Lecture - 3 hours; discussion - 1 hour
Offered each quarter each year
Catalog description: "A general survey of the origins of biological diversity and
evolutionary mechanisms."
EVE 101: "Introduction to Ecology" Instructors: Thomas Schoener (Fall 2012);
Sebastian Schreiber (Winter 2013); Brian Gaylord (Spring 2013)
4 units: Lecture - 3 hours; discussion - 1 hour
Offered each quarter each year
Catalog description: "A general survey of the principles of ecology."
EVE 102: "Population and Quantitative Genetics" Instructor: Charles Langley
4 units: Offered Fall quarter 2012
Catalog description: "Evolution as caused by random mating, genetic drift,
natural selection, inbreeding, migration, and mutation in theory and actuality. The
resemblance between relatives and consequences of selection for quantitative
traits. Application of these ideas to topics such as the evolution of sex. "
EVE 105: "Phylogenetic Analysis of Vertebrate Structure" Instructor: Peter Wainwright
4 units: Offered Winter quarter 2013
Catalog description: "The structure of the classes and subclasses of vertebrates
is described and interpreted in terms of phylogeny."
EVE 108: (cross-listed as Plant Biology PLB 108) "Systematics and Evolution of
Angiosperms" Instructor: James Doyle
5 units: Lecture - 3 hours; Lab - 6 hours
Offered Spring Quarter each year
Catalog description: "Diversity and classification of angiosperms (flowering
plants) on a world scale, and current understanding of the origin of angiosperms
and evolutionary relationships and trends within them based on morphological
and molecular evidence."
EVE 115: "Marine Ecology" Instructor: Jay Stachowicz
4 units: Offered Winter quarter 2013
Catalog description: "Processes affecting the distribution, abundance, and
diversity of plant and animal life in the sea. Introduction to marine habitat
diversity and human impacts on marine ecosystems."
EVE 117: (cross-listed as Plant Biology PLB 117), "Plant Ecology" Instructor: Andrew
Latimer
4 units: Lecture - 3 hours; fieldwork - 3 hours
Offered Fall Quarter each year
Catalog description: "The study of the interactions between plants, plant
populations or vegetation types, and their physical and biological environment.
Special emphasis on California. Four full-day field trips and brief write-up of class
project required."
EVE 119: (cross-listed as Plant Biology 119), "Population Biology of Weeds". Instructor:
Marcel Rejmanek
3 units: Lecture - 2 hours; lab - 3 hours
Offered Spring 2013
Catalog description: "Origin and evolution of weeds, reproduction and dispersal,
seed ecology, modeling of population dynamics, interactions of weeds and crops,
biological control. Laboratories emphasize design of competition experiments
and identification of weedy species."
EVE 120: "Global Change Ecology" Instructor: Donald Strong
3 units: Offered Winter quarter 2013
Catalog description: "Treatment of historical evolution of the biosphere resulting
from physical, chemical, and biological influences. Special focus upon changes
caused by humans. Topics pertain to biodiversity, resources, conservation, and
ecosystem services."
EVE 140: "Paleobotany" Instructor: James Doyle
4 units: Offered Winer quarter 2013
Catalog description: "Introduction to plant fossil record, beginning with the
invation of land in the Silurian, emphasizing origin and evolution of major groups
and adaptations and changing composition and distribution of floras in relation to
plate tectonics and climatic change."
EVE 180A: "Experimental Ecology and Evolution in the Field" Instructor: Louie Yang
4 units: Lecture/lab - 3 hrs; fieldwork - 3 hrs.
Offered Winter quarter 2013
Catalog description: "Experimental design in field ecology. Students will critique
primary literature, design project, gather and analyze data. Students required to
write original research paper based on field experiments."
EVE 180B: "Experimental Ecology and Evolution in the Field" Instructor: Louie Yang
4 units: Lecture/lab - 3 hrs; fieldwork - 3 hrs.
Offered Spring quarter 2013
Catalog description: "Experimental design in field ecology. Students will critique
primary literature, design project, gather and analyze data. Students required to
write original research paper based on field experiments."