FAS 5015 Aquaculture I 3 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Provides an overview of the field of aquaculture, including water quality, production systems, nutrition, spawning, and the common fish and invertebrate groups cultured in the United States.
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FAS 5203 Biology of Fishes 3 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
A survey of the diversity of fishes, including their anatomy, taxonomy, ecology, and conservation. Evolutionary trends are stressed, along with biogeography and biodiversity hotspots. The last section of the course is focused on fish ecology and conservation.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing
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FAS 5203C Biology of Fishes 4 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Emphasizes trends in evolution, integrative and sensory biology, physiology, feeding ecology, reproduction, growth, and population dynamics as they relate to fisheries. Offered fall term in odd-numbered years.
Prerequisite: BSC 2011/2011L or consent of instructor.
FAS 5255 Diseases of Warmwater Fish 3 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Instruction in the methodology of diagnosis, treatment and management of parasitic, bacterial, viral, nutritional, and environmental diseases of warm water food and aquarium species. Fish biology and general husbandry, aquatic systems and water quality management, infectious agents, treatment plans, and biosecurity, quarantine and regulatory issues relevant to fish health.
Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
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FAS 5276C Field Ecology of Aquatic Organisms 4 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Understanding principles of fish and shellfish ecology through field studies. Intensive study in lakes, rivers, and coastal marshes to gain understanding of how fish and shellfish interact with their environment. Requires extensive field trips. Offered summer term.
Prerequisite: FAS 4305C or consent of instructor.
FAS 5335C Applied Fisheries Statistics 4 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Population sampling and estimation, statistical assumptions and robustness, mark-recapture, growth, and empirical modeling of populations. Offered fall term in even-numbered years.
Prerequisite: FAS 5276C or consent of instructor.
FAS 5407 Biology of Fishery and Aquaculture Invertebrates 3 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Examines the biology of marine and freshwater invertebrates that are important as fisheries or in aquaculture. Topics will include taxonomy, morphology, distribution, habitat requirements, nutrition, major predators and parasites, significant ecological interactions, and life cycles. Non-food fisheries, such as commercial sponges and pearl oysters, will be included.
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FAS 5901 Scientific Thinking in Ecology 2 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
General philosophical foundations of science and specific critiques and perspectives found in ecology and aquatic sciences. Offered fall term.
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FAS 6154 Marine Adaptations: Environmental Physiology 3 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Examines and compares the physiological adaptations of marine, estuarine, and freshwater organisms to environmental conditions at various organizational levels. Habitats discussed include freshwater, rocky intertidal, salt marsh, coral reef, and deep sea.
Prerequisite: undergraduate course in animal physiology.
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FAS 6165 Fish and Crustacean Nutrition 3 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Aquaints students with basic principles of nutrition and formulation of diets for fish and crustaceans in aquaculture. Lectures will cover digestive physiology, nutrients, feed formulation, and specific nutritional requirements for numerous aquatic organisms.
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FAS 6176 Algae Biology and Ecology 3 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Covers the biology and ecology of aquatic algae, including evolution, classification, structure, photosynthesis, growth, and reproduction. Emphasis on the ecological role of algae in different aquatic ecosystems (e.g. open ocean, estuaries, coral reefs, rocky intertidal), their impacts (e.g. harmful algae blooms, food webs), and their applications (e.g. food, biochemical).
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FAS 6238 Environmental Physiology of Fishes 3 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Advanced topics on physiology of fishes, such as features and adaptations at different levels of biological organization, their implications, and applications. Students will gain an appreciation for, understanding of, and ability to formulate controlled scientific experiments to generate new knowledge about how fishes function.
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FAS 6256 Fish and Aquatic Invertebrate Histology 3 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Covering interpretations of the fixed tissue microanatomy and physiology of fish, bivalves, and corals, and introduces common histopathologic (disease) findings.
Prerequisite: Previous coursework in animal biology, or permission of the instructor.
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FAS 6272 Marine Ecological Processes 3 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
The ecological, biological, and environmental processes that drive patterns in productivity, behavior, population dynamics, and community structure in marine and estuarine ecosystems.
Prerequisite: Graduate student status
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FAS 6273 Trophic Ecology of Fishes 3 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Trophic ecology of fishes, including: food habit analyses, diet breadth, diet overlap, prey selectivity, prey digestion, gut evacuation, consumption, food-web linkages, foraging connections through stable isotope ratios, trophic cascades, feeding bioenergetics, and interactions among feeding, growth reproduction.
Prerequisite: STA 6166 & FAS 5203C or equivalent.
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FAS 6275 Freshwater Ecology 3 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Provides students with an understanding of the concepts in freshwater ecology that are important for controlling the traits, distribution, and abundance of aquatic organisms. Material will focus on the major groups of organisms found in freshwater habitats, the physical and chemical properties that are important for structuring freshwater communities, and the ecological processes that affect freshwater communities and ecosystems.
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FAS 6337C Fish Population Dynamics 4 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Analyzing fish populations for management purposes. Methods for estimating population parameters such as growth, recruitment, and mortality. Using population parameters and computer models to predict yield and catch composition, and bioenergetics approaches for fisheries management problems. Offered spring term in odd-numbered years.
FAS 6339C Advanced Quantitative Fisheries Assessment 4 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Covering topics related to fisheries stock assessment and management. Focusing on modern assessment techniques and their associated challenges.
Prerequisite: FAS 6337C Fish Population Dynamics
FAS 6355C Fisheries Management 4 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Integrating scientific, social, political, and legal factors in fisheries management. Offered fall term in odd-numbered years.
FAS 6356 Fisheries Enhancement 2 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Provides participants with knowledge and skills required for assessing where and when enhancements can contribute to fisheries management goals, and for developing and managing such initiatives effectively. Emphasizes integrative systems approaches and the key elements of population dynamics, aquaculture production, release strategies, genetic management, governance, and social/economic costs and benefits.
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FAS 6357 Marine Protected Areas 3 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Presents the history and logic of marine protected areas (MPAs) and their advantages and disadvantages. The science of MPAs will be explained as well as an overview of traditional approaches of fisheries management. The importance of ecological principles when creating an MPA will be emphasized. An overview of sampling theory and the need for empirical data to document the success or failure of MPAs will be presented.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
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FAS 6360 Invasion Ecology of Aquatic Animals 3 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
A comprehensive overview of invasion ecology, highlighting aspects related to aquatic animals, including ecological concepts and debates underlying this developing field; biology and life history of nonnative aquatic animals, including characteristics of successful invaders; risk analysis methodology; and the conservation and regulatory implications of nonnative aquatic species.
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FAS 6408 Aquaculture II 3 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Aquaculture engineering and system design; broodstock management; live feeds and algae production; economics and marketing; biosecurity. Application of principles and concepts will be emphasized. At the conclusion of this course students should have a firm grasp of critical concepts in aquaculture.
Prerequisite: FAS 5015 Introduction to Aquaculture (Aquaculture I).
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FAS 6416 Spatial Ecology and Modeling of Fish Populations 2 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Theoretical models, GIS-based methods, spatially explicit matrix population models, movement models, statistical approaches, and stock assessment models to trace the effects of habitat quality, environmental restoration and spatial behavior of fish populations.
Prerequisite: FAS or WEC.
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FAS 6705 Fisheries and aquaculture: An economics perspective 3 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Introduces students to important issues in fisheries and aquaculture management from an economic perspective, exploring the incentives of various stakeholders in utilizing and conserving fisheries resources, as well as the impacts and effects of differing management systems on industry and ecosystems.
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FAS 6905 Individual Study 1-6 Credits, Max 10 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Contemporary problem or topic.
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FAS 6910 Supervised Research 1-5 Credits, Max 5 Credits
Grading Scheme: S/U
Supervised Research
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FAS 6932 Special Topics in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 1-4 Credits, Max 12 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Fisheries biology, aquaculture, and associated aquatic sciences.
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FAS 6933 Graduate Symposium 1 Credit, Max 3 Credits
Grading Scheme: S/U
Graduate Symposium
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FAS 6935 Contemporary Problems in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 2 Credits, Max 10 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Library research, oral reports, and discussions of scientific problems or topics announced in advance. Offered fall and spring terms.
Prerequisite: graduate student standing.
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FAS 6940 Supervised Teaching 1-5 Credits, Max 5 Credits
Grading Scheme: S/U
Supervised Teaching
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FAS 6971 Research for Master's Thesis 1-15 Credits
Grading Scheme: S/U
Research for Master's Thesis
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FAS 7979 Advanced Research 1-12 Credits
Grading Scheme: S/U
Research for doctoral students before admission to candidacy. Designed for students with a master's degree in the field of study or for students who have been admitted to a doctoral program. Not appropriate for students who have been admitted to candidacy.
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FAS 7980 Research for Doctoral Dissertation 1-15 Credits
Grading Scheme: S/U
Research for Doctoral Dissertation