Plants and Pollinators

offered under Biology 533: Special Topics in Plant Biology

This special topics course is offered in association with the

Center for Field Studies Program on Andros Island

Students are required to make a trip to the Bahamas. The class meets several times before departure to prepare, and students turn in a project after the field trip has occurred. Registration is generally handled the semester prior to the trip occurring. Check the Center for Field Studies requirements.

Sample syllabus

Biology 533 - Fall, 1999

North Andros Island

Dec.27 Leave for Florida

Dec. 28 Flight leaves for North Andros

Dec. 29 Small Hope Blue Hole, collecting

Town of Love Hill, collecting

Dec. 30 Agave Coppice and Cargill Creek, collecting

Dec. 31 Coppices at Mastic Pt. collecting

Uncle Charlie's Blue Hole, collecting, swimming

Jan. 1 Bletia Avenue, gather pollination data

Fire Coppice I and II, collecting

Jan. 2 Bletia Avenue, recapture butterflies

Blanket Sound coppice, collecting

Jan. 3 Fresh Creek, collecting, visit to Androsia

Jan 4 Free time in morning,

Afternoon, North Maiden Hair Fern Coppice, collecting

Jan. 5 reef, swimming and observation of shores and reef

Jan. 6 Donovan's Blue Hole, collecting

Churches Blue Hole, collecting

Jan. 7 Bowen Sound, collecting

Luther Badlands, collecting

Jan. 8 Bletia Blvd. Coppice, collecting

Hubcap Blue Holes, collecting

Jan. 9 Clean facilities and leave for Florida

Jan. 10 Arrive at GMU

Grades will be determined on the following basis:

10% Journal of the trip

25% Slide project

65% Work on collecting plants, enthusiasm, degree of contribution to expedition.