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This class is taught by Dr. John Wares in the Genetics Department at the University of Georgia. It is an Honors class, with X students who have taken this elective to expand their understanding of evolutionary biology and how it is applied to contemporary problems. The goal of this semester is to explore why evolutionary theory (and analyses) may be useful in understanding how marine diversity will respond to climate change.

Overview

In May 2009, marine scientists and evolutionary biologists gathered on Santa Catalina Island (near Los Angeles, CA) to discuss climate change in the ocean and what evolutionary biology could contribute to the predictions being made about changes in distribution and biodiversity. A "white paper" was produced at the end that summarized some of this discussion; it was certainly not an end point, but a very informal beginning toward identifying the best paths for further research.

John added this and a link to xkcd. Make sure this opening page has lots of STRUCTURE, not just an endless screed of information. This is up to the students in part, but you will have to curate. And as they come across more, you blog about it here and at SeaMonster.

Naturally, you should probably take the whole class down to Sapelo for a weekend.

Admin added a link to sports. And I did verify that if everybody has a unique login I can evaluate what changes they make. Which is do-able for a smaller class size, each using their UGA MyID as login and password set by me but then they can change it if they want.

I also am pretty sure that this page is currently visible by ANYBODY but only editable if the administrator (me) makes your userid "OK" for this page.

May want to see if we want to make this into a podcast? And can I change the header? There, did that.

Idea for the class: obviously I need to clean up this space, but would populate it with some resources like the ECCO white paper. But the theme is how evolution may ameliorate or alter our predictions about climate change in the sea. It isn't that the sea is more important, that just lets us focus on a smaller array of literature and effects, and on generally non-model organisms.

We should read the white paper, and perhaps the Hosler book on Evolution so they are all on the same page from the beginning of the class with regard to variation and importance of. Then get into work by Greg Wray on urchin genomics and SST, ocean acidification; Morgan Kelly on Tigriopus, other stuff from workshop. Class builds wiki to produce a web resource, which I grade by participation seeing the number and quality of edits.

Each week we discuss one thing together, they each ADD one thing to the mix, and first look to see if another did, they can add to it so we get some depth based on topical interest and depth of coverage.

Blog about this work-in-progress to SeaMonster. Here below an imbed of vimeo?

Christie's lionfish tattoo from John Bruno on Vimeo. Worked once I went to the HTML editor above. If this wiki and blog are structured well, there is a temporal and/or topical line to be followed so it could be used for a tutorial of some sort. That is a useful product. Could then put that on grant renewal info. But, by and large, let them create it, including the narrative distilled from ECCO documents etc.