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MEES -- Marine-Estuarine-Environmental
Sciences
MEES 440 Essentials of Toxicology (2) Prerequisite:
BCHM 261 or BCHM 461. Principles involved in the assessment of responses
of organisms to toxic chemicals, including systemic and organ toxicology,
carcinogenesis, teratogenesis, and consideration of the effects of major
groups of toxicants.
MEES 498 Topics in Marine-Estuarine-Environmental Sciences (1-4)
Lecture and/or laboratory series organized to study a selected area of
marine-estuarine-environmental sciences not otherwise considered in formal
courses.
MEES 608 Seminar in Marine-Estuarine-Environmental Sciences (1-2)
MEES 611 Estuarine Systems Ecology (3) Prerequisite: permission
of instructor. A broad systems perspective on the important components
and processes of estuarine ecosystems, with quantitative and/or mathematical
treatment toward development of representative models for estuarine dynamics.
MEES 621 Biological Oceanography (3) Population and community
ecology of estuarine and marine systems. Coastal and estuarine processes
are emphasized in the context of the oceans in general.
MEES 641 Environmental Toxicology (3) Prerequisite: CHEM 243.
The introduction, behavior, fate, and effects of chemicals in the environment;
organisms in the atmosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere and the effects
of foreign chemicals and other stresses on their health and well-being.
MEES 645 Ecology and Management of Wetland and Submersed Aquatic
Vegetation Systems (3) Two hours of lecture and four hours of laboratory
per week. Prerequisite: (PBIO 440 and PBIO 455) or permission of instructor.
Comprehensive analysis of the ecology and management of wetlands and submersed
aquatic vegetation at several scales of organization from physiological,
through population, community, and systems levels. Research studies from
the Chesapeake Bay watershed are discussed, as well as underlying biogeochemical
processes and forcing functions (hydrology, nutrient input, etc.) accounting
for systems behavior. Couplings with surrounding systems on land-margin
interface will be emphasized, along with applications to current management
issues. Paper is required. Field trips and lab work will complement topics
covered in the lectures.
MEES 650 Wetland Ecology (3) Prerequisite: BIOM 301 or permission
of department. Also offered as NRMT 450. Credit will be granted for only
one of the following: MEES 650 or NRMT 450. Plant and animal communities,
biogeochemistry, and ecosystem properties of wetland systems. Laboratory
emphasizes collection and analysis of field data on wetland vegetation,
soil, and hydrology.
MEES 661 Physics of Estuarine and Marine Environments (3) Prerequisite:
one year of calculus and one year of physics or permission of instructor.
General introduction to the physical oceanography of estuarine and marine
systems. Physical characteristics of seawater, heat and mass transport,
major ocean currents, basic dynamical oceanography, surface waves, tides,
turbulence, sediment transport, estuarine circulation.
MEES 681 Coastal Resource Use, Law and Management: The Chesapeake
(3) An interdisciplinary course drawing on resource economics, political
science and law to examine the natural resources of the Chesapeake and
the market, political and legal processes through which Chesapeake resource
use decisions result. The course is designed to provide social and natural
scientists with an understanding of coastal use and management issues.
MEES 682 Fishery Science and Management (3) Prerequisite:
permission of instructor. Aquatic production and fisheries yields.
Introduction to fish population dynamics and assessment methods. Effects
of fishing on resource potential yields. Causes of fluctuations in resource
abundance. An emphasis on the relationship between science and management.
MEES 698 Special Topics in Marine-Estuarine-Environmental Sciences
(1-4) Credit according to time schedule and course organization. Lecture
and/or laboratory series organized to study selected areas of environmental
science not otherwise considered by existing courses. May be repeated for
credit since topic coverage will change.
MEES 699 Special Problems in Marine-Estuarine-Environmental Sciences
(1-3) Research on specialized topics under the direction of individual
faculty members.
MEES 711 Modeling Physical and Chemical Processes in Natural Waters
(3) Prerequisites: CHEM 474 or equivalent; and permission of instructor.
Quantitative mathematical descriptions of the physical and chemical processes
which control the movement of chemicals in natural waters, including gas
exchange across the air-water interface, adsorption, biological uptake,
and biotic and abiotic degradation.
MEES 721 Plankton Dynamics (3) Prerequisite: MEES 621; and
MEES 661 or equivalent. Physiological ecology of plankton populations
beginning with the biochemistry, physiology and ecology of phytoplankton
and concluding with the physiology and ecology of zooplankton.
MEES 743 Aquatic Toxicology (3) Two lectures and three four-hour
laboratories per week. One all day field trip. Prerequisites: MEES 641;
and BCHM 462 or permission of instructor. Lectures and laboratory exercises
on the chemical and biological principles involved in the design of experiments
in aquatic toxicology. Analytical techniques needed to measure chemicals
in toxicological studies. The design of acute and chronic bioassays. Chemical
and biological phenomena which control or alter the responses of aquatic
organisms to chemicals in bioassay.
MEES 799 Masters Thesis Research (1-6)
MEES 899 Doctoral Dissertation Research (1-8)
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