Course Schedule - December 2009 | Sub-Antarctic Biocultural Conservation Program

Course Schedule - December 2009

Dec 09 - Jan 10 Wintermester TDP Schedule

Tentative Course Schedule

Sunday, 27 December: Arrive to Chile. Stay in Santiago at Hostal Forestal. Visit Natural History Museum and Santiago historic sites.

Monday, 28 December: Fly to Punta Arenas. Visit Reserva Magallanes and participate in "observation thru art" and analysis of trail system. Evening film on Ernst Haeckel (Readings 28-30 December: Rozzi et al. 2008a,b, Haeckel book)

Tuesday, 29 December: Visit Otway Penguin Colony and participate in description of the habitat, habits and inhabitants.

Wednesday, 30 December: Visit to Regional Museum and characterize plants in garden of Braun Museum and essay on historical process of colonization and homogenization (Readings: Borrero 1997 and Caliman et al. 2009)

Thursday, 31 December: Raise and discuss philosophical questions of interpretation (Readings: Gay Science).

Friday, 1 January: Celebrate New Years and Chile's Bicentennial

Saturday, 2 January: Fly to Puerto Williams. Introduction to Puerto Williams. Discuss paradigms in science (Readings: Kuhn and Simberloff)

Sunday, 3 thru Wednesday, 6 January: Camp at foot of Dientes Mountain Range. Initiate "direct encounter" with biodiversity and sampling. Three topics: i) exotic species, ii) invertebrates and iii) bryophytes. (Readings 3-10: Anderson et al. 2006, Anderson & Rosemond 2007, Anderson et al. 2008, Darwin 1859, Larson 2005, Martinic 2005, Moorman 2006, Callicott 2008, and Leopold 1949)

Thursday, 7 January: Work in the Omora Park (Rozzi et al. 2006, Rodriguez et al. 2007).

Friday, 8 January: Work in the Omora Park.

Saturday, 9 January: Embark for Punta Arenas aboard ferry. Describe the landscape change and compare with observations made by Darwin (Darwin 1859).

Sunday, 10 January: Arrive to Punta Arenas in late evening.

Monday, 11 January:

Tuesday, 12 January: Fly Santiago and USA.