Pernet Lab - Teaching

I've taught courses in Invertebrate Biology, Marine Biology, and Estuarine Biology at the University of Washington, the University of Oregon, and their marine stations (the Friday Harbor Laboratories and the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology, respectively). At CSU Long Beach, courses I have taught or will teach regularly in the near future include:

Biol 313, Invertebrate Zoology. This course covers some of the massive diversity of invertebrates, focusing mostly on marine animals because the oceans are where most animal diversity (except for insects) lives. The focus of the course is on how invertebrates are built and how they function, but we also cover such things as phylogeny and paleontology, development, and ecology. We spend most of our time looking at living invertebrates in the lab, but also take a few fieldtrips to see intertidal and subtidal representatives of most major phyla. We only pay attention to fishes when they're interacting with some cool invertebrate, and we strongly prefer interactions in which the invertebrate wins (like this copepod attached to a tonguefish's eye, dredged off of San Pedro by the spring 05 class).

Last modified 23 Jan 2009