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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.
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; you can get to faculty web pages directly by clicking on the appropriate icon in the logo below. Some special links are also highlighted here:
News:
On October 6th, 25 students and 3 faculty visited Bodies: The Exhibition in Columbus. Students were able to tour this exhibit of elaborately preserved and presented human bodies, learning much about anatomy in the process. Afterwards, the students had some time to do some shopping at the Easton Center where the exhibition was housed.
Fall 2007 marks the opening of the Barbara A. Beiser Field Station. The first class was on site and conducting field work September 4th, 2007. Dedication of the station, made possible by the generosity of Ralph Voorhees and dedicated to the memory of his wife, Barbara A. Beiser Voorhees, was held on September 15th, 2007.
Dave Sands a Marietta College graduate, and his uncle, Ralph Voorhees, at the dedication.
Above: Sampling in the Little Muskingum River at the Barbara A. Beiser Field Station. On September 19th, 2007, such sampling revealed the furthest upstream presence of Palaemonetes kadiakensis, the Mississippi Grass Shrimp, in the Ohio River drainage.
Zoology Class at the Barbara A. Beiser Field Station.
A fall tradition, the welcome back picnic on September 5th brought together our upperclass students and some of the more than 40 new students majoring in Biology, Health Science, and Biochemistry.
2007 Costa Rica Field Trip
12 students and 2 professors spent 3 weeks in Costa Rica early this summer. The group toured much of the country, including beaches on both the Caribbean and Pacific coasts, and saw habitats including coral reefs, two active volcanoes, several rainforests, a cloud forest and a tropical dry forest.
A web site with pictures from both the 2007 trip and the previous, 2005 trip is under construction at:
http://www.marietta.edu/~biol/costa_rica/costa_rica.htm
Stop by regularly as the site is being updated as we work our way through about 15,000 pictures we took there.
Student Projects
- Seoul Women's University/Marietta College Cooperative Stream Study
- Butterflies of Washington County
- Odonata! (Dragonflies and Damselflies)
- Mussels of the Ohio River
Community Resources: Course Resources:
- Biomes of the World
- MolnQuiry Molecular Models
- Pachyderm (ID drill)
- MicroID Microbe Viewer
- MicroID Microbe Quizzer
Costa Rica - Maine - Utah.....
Faculty web pages: McShaffrey Spilatro Utah Dinosaur Dig/Desert Ecology 2006
