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Lecture - date Topic Due
1 - Jan 05 Problem solving approaches, Multiple representations  
2 - Jan 07 Iterative models  
3 - Jan 12 Growth models - resource limitation and "logistic" model  
4 - Jan 14 Key aspects of equations  
h - Jan 19 no class - Martin Luther King Service Day
5 - Jan 21 fiting problems to equations
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PS #1 due
6 - Jan 26 steady state  
7 - Jan 28 logistic vs. resource limitation
simulations as an aid to problem solving - reserves
 multiple-rep #1 due
8 - Feb 02 multiple steady states  
9 - Feb 04 dynamic models: steady state & predator/prey PS #2 due
10 - Feb 09   Quiz 1

11 - Feb 11

dynamic models: multi-component recycling
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12 - Feb 16 open systems
co-flow models: community trophic structure & respiration		  
13 - Feb 18 Modeling to represent the mechanism or to fit the data
Log/ratios/exponential		  
14 - Feb 23 Descriptive modeling with systems - the components  
15 - Feb 25 positive & negative feedback PS#3 due
16 - Mar 02 simple spatial models  
17 - Mar 04 time = distance, succession, oxygen "sag" curve multiple-rep#2 due
18 - Mar 09 go over assignments, multiple limitation factors  
19 - Mar 11 models and management, PS#4, and quiz review PS#4 due
     

TUESDAY
Mar 17
8:00 to 9:50

 Scheduled Final Exam Time - NOTE the day and time are different from class time Quiz 2