Biology and Environmental Science
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Biology
at Marietta College is your gateway to many exciting
educational opportunities. Our department emphasizes small
classes with plenty of opportunity to interact with the
faculty. From Anatomy to Immunology and on to Zoology, our
courses cover the traditional areas of biology as well as the newest
areas of research.
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We are particularly excited about our facilities in the Rickey Science Center, opened in the spring of 2003. Click here for a tour of our facilities in the Rickey Science Center. All of our laboratories and equipment are available to students. Many of our courses emphasize field trips to the local natural areas along the Ohio River. We have placed a lot of material on our web site for the use of our students and anyone else who is interested. You can access the material from the menu at the left.
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News: Listing Below
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Homecoming Activities
If you are in town for homecoming:
Stop by the department on Friday to see all the new stuff.
Join us for a morning bird walk at the field station. Carpooling from the Hermann Lot at 7:30 AM.
Open house at the Field Station on Sunday, October 18th at 2 PM.
Newport Aquarium/Creation Museum Trip
| On September 26th, 2009, about 22 students and 3 faculty drove to the Cincinnati area to see the Newport Aquarium and the Creation Museum. Students came from several classes, including evolution, ecology, and the Biology 101/105 Learning Community. The trip was sponsored by the Department of Biology and Environmental Science, with funding help from the freshman year program and the Hartel Fund. |
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| Above - Outside the
Newport Aquarium in Newport, Kentucky.
Right: Photographing a terrapin at the aquarium. Below: at the aquarium. |
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Above: Humans and
dinosaurs together again? at the Creation Museum in Kentucky.
Left: Adam and Eve enjoy a moment at the Creation Museum. Not Pictured - the Serpent. Below: Excavating a fossil diorama at the Creation Museum. Utah veterans noted how intact the skeleton was.
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The animals board the ark, 2 x 2. Note dinosaurs. The Creation Museum presents the 6,000 year old Earth view of Creation. |
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Fall Picnic
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The fall picnic was a big hit. This year, we combined with the chemistry department and we had a good time and good food. As usual, Dr. Brown took over the grill. New this year were a number of games, including the one shown to the left. The official name of the game was not nearly as interesting as the many names the students came up with for it. Below: Dr. Tschunko supervises as Scout initiates cleanup. |
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Fall 2009 Classes Start
Fall classes started back up in August. Above, 3 students working on a transect at the Barbara A Beiser Field Station.
Guatemala/Belize 2009
Although it is not a biology department offering, Drs. David Brown and Dave McShaffrey are leading (along with Dr. Rob McManus of the McDonough Leadership Program) a 3 week trip to Guatemala and Belize in July and August, 2009. The focus of the trip was leadership in ecology and conservation in Central America.
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Guatemala/Belize Trip Pictures
Costa Rica 2009
8 students and 2 faculty members spent 3 weeks in Costa Rica studying tropical ecosystems and Costa Rican culture. Students were able to walk on a live volcano, explore primary rainforest, swim in two oceans, snorkel on a coral reef, eat pineapples right in the field where they are grown, see 3 species of monkeys and tease bullet ants. They even got to ride on a boat.
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Left - most of the group at Volcan Arenal. The group is standing on lava from an eruption in 1968; the volcano is actively erupting behind them. |
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On the Continental Divide at
Monteverde. The Pacific Ocean is in the distance, the
Caribbean behind the camera.
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Left, early morning on the
Caribbean at Tortuguero, right, sunset on the Pacific at Playa
Raja.
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| Above, some work did get done: Clockwise from upper left - Transect in secondary rainforest, hike through a logging operation removing plantation trees to regrow primary rainforest, big tree in primary rainforest, writing journals at a field station. | |
More 2009 Costa Rica Pictures Here
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| Faculty web pages: | McShaffrey | Spilatro | ||
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Zoology Class at the Barbara A. Beiser Field Station.
