Biology Department
Bainbridge College Faculty Web Page
Adele Cunningham

Research centers
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• Dauphin Island Sea Lab (near Mobile, Alabama)
• Joseph A. Jones Ecological Research Center (Ichauway, Georgia)

  Mission, Values and Programs:

  The Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center at Ichauway seeks to understand, to demonstrate, and to promote excellence in natural resource management and conservation on the landscape of the southeastern coastal plain of the United States.

  Related sites:

  • The Longleaf Alliance

    The mission of The Longleaf Alliance is the restoration of the longleaf pine forest ecosystem across its range, emphasizing its economic and ecological values through research, education, and outreach.

  • Tall Timbers

    The mission of Tall Timbers Research Station & Land Conservancy is to foster exemplary land stewardship through research, conservation and education.

    Our primary research focus is the ecology and management of fire-dependent ecosystems and wildlife, including bobwhite quail, in the Southeastern Coastal Plain. Our conservation efforts are dedicated to helping protect the distinctive rural landscape of South Georgia and North Florida and its traditional land uses. Our education program transfers research and conservation information for resource management.

• GEOSET at FSU
• Census of Marine Life (COML)
• Technique tricks bacteria into generating their own vaccine

  (in Ohio State University research news)

  COLUMBUS, Ohio – Scientists have developed a way to manipulate bacteria so they will grow mutant sugar molecules on their cell surfaces that could be used against them as the key component in potent vaccines.

Web links
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• University of California Museum of Paleontology (Berkeley)
  • UCMP Taxon Lift
  • UCMP Systematics of the Metazoa
• Marine Biological Lab - Woods Hole, MA
• The Tree of Life Web Project
• The Shape of Life | PBS
• eNature.com
• Saltwaterfish.com - nice photos

  Reef Fish, Marine Fish, Coral, Aquarium Supplies & more

• USGS-Exploring the deep ocean floor
• OceanLink - dedicated to ocean education

  Throughout these pages, you will find all kinds of interesting information about things like the effects of climate change, marine biology education and careers, answers to questions about the ocean and marine organisms, and much more!!

• OceanLink, the online home of Invitation to Oceanography Fifth Edition by Paul R. Pinet

  Developed exclusively for Invitation to Oceanography, this site offers a variety of resources designed to enhance your study of oceanography and gives you an opportunity to explore topics from the text in more detail.

  • The Glossary is good.
• Backyard Nature
• University of Buffalo Library - Biology (use "Guides" tab - lots of good links)
• www.enchantedlearning.com
• Atlas of Medical Parasitology

  A project for a complete atlas of human parasitology through the contribution of every researchers and scientists who will agree to participate.

• Cahri’s Bugs Online
• Invertebrates of Assateague Beach, Virginia
• RaceRocks - good examples for required student report
• Palaeos.org

  A multi-authored Encyclopedia on the history of life on Earth

• AllRefer Reference - Invertebrates
• Center for Laboratory Animal Care (UConn)
• Seashore Creatures and Shells pictures
• Smithsonian invertebrate biology newsletters
• Glencoe Science (good)
• MEER - Marine and Environmental Education and Research, Inc.
• Water flow and feeding in the phylum Porifera

  (beautiful Flash movie)

• University of Michigan Animal Diversity Web
  • Mammal anatomy
• What’s that bug?

  at North Carolina State University

• EarthSky.org
• Bodyworlds

  ( = Körperwelten)

  • Google images Körperwelten
  • Body Parts! Get Your Body Parts Here! : Discovery News
• NASA eClips™
  • NASA eClips™ are short, relevant educational video segments.
  • These videos inspire and engage students, helping them see real world connections.
• early stages of human embryogenesis

• Inventors and inventions

  • InventorSpot.com

    Inventions, Innovations and Interesting Ideas for the Inventor in All of Us.

    • Yakuza Tatoos on Japanese Men & Women
    • World's First Eyeball Tattoo - Ouch!
    • 3D Pavement Art - It just looks so real....
• The decline effect and the scientific method

  The Truth Wears Off - Is there something wrong with the scientific method?

• DisclosurePolicy.org

  What is disclosure?

  • Disclosure Policy Generator

Invertebrate Zoology at other schools
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• University of Wisconsin System

  • UWisconsin (La Crosse) - Zoo Lab
  • University of Wisconsin (Stevens Point)
    • UWisconsin (Stevens Point) Invertebrate Zoology (BIOL 360)
    • UWisconsin (Stevens Point) Cambrian biology (GEOL 106)
  • Urchin embryology tutorial (UWisc)
  • Amphibian embryology tutorial (UWisc)
  • Zoology 470 - Introduction to Animal Development (UWisc)
• Invertebrate Zoology OnLine - Lander University(SC) - Richard S. Fox (nice stuff!)
• Modesto Junior College (CA) - Marine Invertebrate Phyla
• San Diego State University
  • Marine Invertebrate Biology - BIOLOGY 515
• University of California - Santa Cruz
  • UC Santa Cruz - BIOL 136 Invertebrate Zoology
  • University of California - Santa Cruz

    This is a list of all UCSC biology couses. Not all are web courses.

  • UCSC’s mascot is the banana slug (Ariolimax columbianus)
• University of Alberta Canada
  • Survey of invertebrates - ZOOL 250

    Zool 250, Survey of the Invertebrates, is a second-year university level survey of animal diversity (excluding insects and vertebrates). Throughout the course, the goal of the lecture portion of the course is:

    1. promote a Tree of Life view of animal diversity, and
    2. to promote an understanding of the form and functional biology of the major animal groups.

    The course starts with a brief overview of protist diversity, and then covers all the major animal phyla including Porifera, Cnidaria, Platyhelminthes, aschelminthes (Nematoda, Rotifera), Mollusca, Sipuncula, Annelida, Onychophora, Arthropoda (Crustacea, Chelicerata, Uniramia - excluding insects), Echinodermata, lophophorates (Bryozoa, Brachiopoda), Hemichordata (Pterobranchia, Enteropneusta), Chordata (Cephalochordata, Urochordata). Distinguishing characteristics of classes and subclasses of major phyla are also reviewed. Students are introduced to the basic elements of cladistic analysis, and cladograms with defining characters mapped on them are provided for all phyla and classes. The laboratory portion of the course emphasizes comparative anatomy and diversity, and the course web site provides an extensive set of study images to review material covered in lab.

Web biology courses
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• Eastern Kentucky University (Richmond, Kentucky)
  • Eastern KenU-Bio141 General Zoology
  • EKU Named Military-Friendly School for 2^nd Straight Year

    (Posted: August 18, 2010)

Paleontology
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• Worldwide Museum of Natural History
• UWisconsin (Stevens Point) Cambrian biology (GEOL 106)
• [BOOK] Introduction to the Study of Dinosaurs

• Mississippian trilobites from northwestern Georgia

  • Mississippian Trilobites from Northwestern Georgia
  • Mark Rich
  • in Journal of Paleontology
    Published by: Paleontological Society
    Vol. 40, No. 6 (Nov., 1966), pp. 1381-1384
    (article consists of 5 pages)
  • Published by: SEPM Society for Sedimentary Geology
  • Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1301957

Dissections online
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• About.com online dissections
• Dissections Online - University at Buffalo Libraries
• Virtual cat dissection

  from The Pennsylvania State University

• Carnivore dissection

  Veterinary Gross Anatomy (CVM 6100) from College of Veterinary Medicine at University of Minnesota

• Sheep Brain Atlas

  from Michigan State University

Green flourescent protein
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• Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008

• Eduardo Kac site

  Eduardo Kac (pronounced "Katz") is internationally recognized for his telepresence and bio art, especially GFP bunny.

  • Alba - the GFP bunny
  • 5.13 GFP K9 Project: The Green Bunny
• Aequorea victoria
• Fluorescent Mice Herald Gene-Transfer Breakthrough
  D.L. Parsell
  National Geographic News
  January 11, 2002

• Clontech.com

  • Living Colors® Green Fluorescent Proteins
  • Fluorescent Protein Antibodies

Periodic Table of the Elements
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• periodictable.com
• periodictable.ru
• The Wooden Periodic Table Table

  Yes, it really is a table.

Scientific magazines and journals

• Origin of the Genetic Code by James C. Lacey, et al.

  A molecular model of the interaction between mononucleotides and polyamino-acids
  predicts the glycine codon GGG, and suggests RNA evolved before DNA.

• Science News

  Magazine of the Society for Science & the Public

  • Alphabet of Life

    Searching for clues to the genetic code's origin

  • Chirally selective, intramolecular interaction observed in an aminoacyl adenylate anhydride

    by James C. Lacey, Leo M. Hall, Dail W. Mullins and Charles L. Watkins

    from Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres

    • Volume 16, Number 2, 151-156, DOI^®: 10.1007/BF01809468
• National Geographic

  Inspiring People to Care About the Planet Since 1888

• Newsweek - Insect Inspection

  Not all bugs are disgusting pests. Just some of them.

Improbable & Irreproducible

Improbable Research (Ig® Nobel Prizes)

The Ig® Nobel prizes are awarded every year by the journal The Annals of Improbable Research for scientific work that cannot or should not be reproduced.

• The Ig® Nobel Prizes
  • Winners of the Ig® Nobel Prize
  • 2002 Ig® Nobel Prize in Chemistry

    for The Wooden Periodic Table Table by Theodore Gray

• Annals of Improbable Research
  • The Newsletter: mini-AIR

    mini-AIR is our monthly e-mail newsletter. It's free.

  • Annals of Improbable Research

Journal of Irreproducible Results

In six funny issues a year, Journal of Irreproducible Results offers spoofs, parodies, whimsies, burlesques, lampoons, and satires. JIR appeals to scientists, doctors, science teachers, and word-lovers. JIR targets hypocrisy, arrogance, and ostentatious sesquipedalian circumlocution. We're a friendly escape from the harsh and the hassle. JIR makes you feel good :-).

• Journal of Irreproducible Results

Scientific shows

• BBC
  • BBC News - Science & Environment
  • One Planet
  • City street to open sea - fish farming's new frontiers

    (Audio mentioned sea urchins.)

Origami
Origami on Wikipedia