EE BIOL 87

Main Course

California's DNA: Field Course

Description

Lecture, one hour; fieldwork, four hours (every other week). Limited to freshmen. Students join CALeDNA community science program and do fieldwork to sample soil and sediments in California. Familiarization with University of California natural reserves spanning coast to woodland, and desert to mountains. Analysis of samples for DNA to capture snapshot of local biodiversity. Prepares students for more intensive, related upper-division science course. Guided Saturday field trips or independent trips. Letter grading.