Marine Microbial Diversity Field Course

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Marine Microbial Diversity Field Course
Dr Jeanette Rotchell, JMS 5D20,
J.Rotchell_at_sussex.ac.uk
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Marine Station, MillportIsle of Cumbrae (in the
Clyde Estuary)

• One week residential field course
• Approx. 160 for accommodation/food plus travel
  expenses to Scotland
• http//www.gla.ac.uk/centres/marinestation/

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6 credit course Easter vacation (and no clash
with other field courses)

• Lecture topics
• 1)             Introduction to marine
  phytoplankton
• 2)             Introduction to marine microbes
• 3)             Biofouling
• 4)             Faecal pollution
• 5)             Nutrient cycles
• 6)             Harmful algal blooms
• 7)             Micro-ecological effects of fish
  farms

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Lab Field work

• 1) Collecting and identifying phytoplankton
• 2) Measuring the abundance of heterotrophic
  bacteria in seawater, sediment and on seaweeds
• 3) Microbial attachment to submerged glass slides
  
• 4) Isolation of E.coli from the sea or shore
• 5) An investigation of faecal contamination
  around Cumbrae
• 6) Isolation of marine bacteriophage
• 7) Vertical distribution of phytoplankton in the
  water column (includes boat sampling in Clyde
  Estuary)
• 8) Protozoa of the marine environment

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Assessment
2 lab reports each worth 50 of
assessment. Submitted at the end of the field
course in Scotland.
Marine focus library and internet/PC/printing/wire
less available