The Ohio State University Course offering at Stone Laboratory Summer 2018 June 17 – July 21

EEOB 5930: Ichthyology

Prerequisites Completion of 12 semester-credit hours in biological sciences or equivalent, at least junior standing by summer enrollment, GPA minimum of 2.5, or permission of instructor.

Credit 4 undergraduate/graduate student semester credit hours

Course Meetings and Instructor Availability M,W,F 0800-1600 June 17 – July 21, 2018

Course Description This course will introduce students to the great diversity of fishes. Representative species from ecologically, commercially, and phylogenetically important families of all fishes will be studied; however, emphasis will be placed on fish species of the Laurentian Great Lakes. The class will survey the evolutionary relationships among fishes by examining behavioral, morphological, and physiological differences between the major groups. Further, by exploring the physiological processes that enable fishes to exploit and interact with their environments and each other, students will discover the interconnectedness of fish populations/assemblages and what drives those relationships. A combination of field collections and laboratory examination of preserved specimens will enable students to gain hands-on experience in the collection, preservation, identification, anatomy, and morphology of fishes found in Lake Erie and nearby streams, rivers, and wetlands. Field and laboratory exercises will also provide opportunities to evaluate natural history and ecological patterns. Discussions about the role of humans in altering the ecology of fishes will hone critical thinking skills.

Course Objectives  Understand functional relationships between behavior, morphology, physiology, and ecology  Evaluate patterns between phenotypic expression based on fish morphology and behavior  Use dichotomous keys to identify fishes of the Great Lakes basin  Learn external and internal fish anatomy and scientific nomenclature  Become familiar with methods of collecting and studying fishes through hands-on field and laboratory experience

Instructors: Suzanne M. Gray, Assistant Professor, School of Environmental and Natural Resources The Ohio State University, [email protected]

Marc R. Kibbey, Associate Curator of Fishes, The Ohio State University [email protected]

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Teaching Approach The course will be taught using a combination of lectures, discussions, laboratory exercises, field trips, and group projects. Laboratory examinations will help students to learn the finer points of identification, while field experience will enable students to learn about the preferred habitats, natural history, and behavioral patterns of a variety of fishes. Students are responsible for checking the daily schedule and look for any changes to the schedule, as posted on Carmen, or email, or as announced during mealtimes.

Grading Grading will be based on practical laboratory quizzes, written exams, a behavioral experiment and report, and participation. Students will be expected to actively participate in the learning process in all aspects of the course in the field and classroom.

Student Evaluation

Weight Date Quizzes (Lecture and Lab) Quiz I 10% 25 June Quiz II 10% 02 July Quiz III 10% 16 July Lab Practical Quizzes

Lab Practical I 10% 27 June Lab Practical II 10% 18 July Behavior Project Report 15% 21 June Final Lab Practical 10% 21 June Final Exam 15% 21 June Participation 10% --

TOTAL 100%

Grading Scheme A = 93-100% A- = 90-92 B+ = 87-89 B = 83-86 B- = 80-82 C+ = 77-79 C = 73-76 C- = 70-72 D+ = 66-69 D = 60-65 E < 60

Quizzes (30%) and Final Exam (15%): There will be three quizzes throughout the semester worth 10% each and a final exam on the last day of the term. Quizzes will cover material presented in lecture (e.g. theory), videos, assigned readings, and material covered in labs (i.e., the answer to the question, “Will

2 this be on the Quiz?” is “YES”). All written exams are mandatory and make-up exams will only be administered for those students with documented excuses (e.g. health or family emergency).

Lab Practical Quizzes (20%) and Final Practical Exam (10%): There will be two lab practical quizzes worth 10% each and a final practical exam on the last day of the term. Practical Quizzes are aimed at helping you master your identification skills, including morphology and anatomy of fishes, learned in the field and lab (e.g. fish identification) and as such are practical in nature. Quizzes are not cumulative (i.e. you will be tested on material from the previous ~1-3 labs); however the final practical exam is cumulative. Use the “Open Review” time (typically from 6:00pm to 7:00pm M, W, F) wisely – you will need this time outside of class to learn how to identify the fish collected during field trips. All practical quizzes and exams are mandatory and make-up exams will only be administered for those students with documented excuses (e.g. health or family emergency).

Behavioral Observations Report (15%): A major objective of this course is for students to learn about the behavior of fishes, especially as it pertains to how the respond to environmental changes. Behaviors are typically easy to observe and are often the first response of an animal to external stimuli. Thus observing and quantifying fish behavior helps to increase our understanding of how fishes interact with their social and ecological environment. For this assignment students will work as a teams to develop a hypothesis-driven observation project of either fish in the wild, or wild-caught fish brought into the lab. The team will generate a hypothesis, predictions and observational design, collect the data, and analyze their results together. However, each student is responsible for submitting an individually written short scientific report (detailed instructions will be provided). The hypothesis and observational design must be approved by Dr. Gray by the end of the day on Monday, July 2. Final papers should be submitted by 12:00pm on Saturday, July 21.

Participation (15%): This five-week course is comprised of an intense schedule of lecture, lab, and field activities and requires full participation of all students. Attendance is mandatory for all components of this course - missing class or lab will result in a lower participation grade. Unavoidable absences require prior permission of the instructor.

Written Assignment - Format and Submission: All written assignments are to be submitted electronically using Carmen Dropbox by 12:00 pm on the date that they are due unless stated otherwise. Written assignments should have 1” margins, 12 pt Times New Roman font, double line spacing, and all pages should be consecutively numbered, including the cover page. All written assignments should include a cover page that provides your name, name.#, title of the assignment, and the date. In-text citations and reference lists should follow the instructions found in the Author Guidelines for the Journal of Fish Biology (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1095- 8649/homepage/ForAuthors.html). A single file saved as a Word document with your name and assignment title as the file name (e.g. “GRAY_Behavior Report”) should be submitted.

Late Assignment Policy: Reports and papers are due by the times stated in the Instructions. Late assignments will not be accepted without prior permission.

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Texts Required

Hubbs, C., and K. Lagler. 2004. Fishes of the Great Lakes Region. Revised edition (revised by G. Smith). University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI. Highly recommended if you plan to pursue a career in North American freshwater fish ecology Available for online purchase in May through the OSU Marion Bookstore website.

Page, Lawrence M., and Brooks M. Burr. 2011. Peterson Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes of North America North of Mexico. Houghton, Mifflin, Harcourt. Boston, New York. 2nd Edition. Available for online purchase in May through the OSU Marion Bookstore website.

Available for use at Stone Laboratory Trautman, M.B. 1981. The Fishes of Ohio. The Ohio State University Press, Columbus, OH.

Etnier, D. A., and Starnes, W. C. Fishes of Tennessee. 2001. The University of Tennessee Press/ Knoxville. ISBN: 0-87049-711-1

Barton, Michael. 2007. Bond's Biology of Fishes. 3rd Edition. Thomson Brooks. ISBN-10: 0120798751

Helfman, Gene S., Bruce B. Collette, Douglas E. Facey, and Brian Bowen. 2009. The Diversity of Fishes. 2nd Edition. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN-10: 1405124946 Available as an eBook from the OSU Library: http://library.ohio-state.edu/record=b8365705~S7

Other potentially useful on-line tools: http://www.fishbase.org/search.php http://currents.plos.org/treeoflife/article/the-tree-of-life-and-a-new-classification-of-bony-fishes/ http://research.calacademy.org/redirect?url=http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyolo gy/catalog/fishcatmain.asp http://swordtail.tamu.edu/anyfish/Main_Page http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/fishtree_01

NOTE: There will be supplemental readings assigned for discussion in some classes. These readings will be posted on Carmen or provided to you in class. Readings are meant to augment material covered in lecture and solidify your understanding of the general concepts presented; therefore, these readings are required.

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University Resources The university has a variety of resources in place to support students and a safe campus environment. Students experiencing stress, sleep problems, anxiety, depression, interpersonal concerns, death of a significant other, and alcohol use or any event that has significantly impacted your concentration on education, work or family matters are encouraged to contact the Office of Student Life at 614-292-9334 (https://studentlife.osu.edu/) and/or Counseling and Consultation Services (CCS) at 614-292-5766 (www.ccs.osu.edu) for assistance, support, and advocacy. CCS offers a number of FREE drop-in-when- you-are-able workshops (http://www.ccs.ohio-state.edu/drop-in-workshops/). No registration is necessary, no prior appointment is needed, and workshops are open to all enrolled OSU students.

Academic Integrity: This course adheres to the Code of Student Conduct (http://studentaffairs.osu.edu/csc/) and policies set by the OSU Committee on Academic Misconduct (http://oaa.osu.edu/coam.html). All students should familiarize themselves with these materials, and act appropriately. Academic misconduct is defined by the Ohio State University’s Code of Student Conduct (Section 3335-23-04) as: “Any activity that tends to compromise the academic integrity of the University, or subvert the educational process.” Examples of academic misconduct include (but are not limited to) plagiarism, collusion (unauthorized collaboration), copying the work of another student, and possession of unauthorized materials during an examination. Academic misconduct will not be tolerated in this class. For more information, please feel free to review the “Ten Suggestions for Preserving Academic Integrity” http://oaa.osu.edu/coamtensuggestions.html or “Eight Cardinal Rules of Academic Integrity” http://www.northwestern.edu/provost/students/integrity/rules.html.

Accommodating Students’ Learning: For circumstances approved by the university, we can make accommodations that facilitate your learning in this class. If you have university-approved circumstances that require special accommodations (e.g., student athlete, ROTC, Marching Band, a disability), it is your responsibility to let the instructor know at the beginning of the semester or as soon as it comes to your attention during the semester. You are also required to inform the instructor about a need to miss class prior to any excused absence. If you have a disability, then please register with the Office for Disability Services (ODS) as soon as possible by contacting (614) 292-3307, and let your instructor know.

Reporting Incidents of Bias: To ensure a safe learning environment, please speak to the instructor immediately if you feel that you have experienced bias (whether based on race, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, age or sex) within the classroom. You can also anonymously report any incidents of bias experienced on campus to the Bias Assessment Response Team (BART).

Career Services: The School of Environment and Natural Resources has a Career Services Office located in 210 Kottman Hall. Please call the main office at 614-292-2265 or email [email protected] to schedule an appointment or use the available Express Walk-In Hours hosted every Friday 9am – 4pm.

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SCHEDULE (The following times and events are subject to change)

Day Time Description Readings/Assignments Instructor Sunday: 4:00p - 5:00p Orientation: Introduction to Stone Helfman et al. Ch. 1, 2 & Stone Lab 17 June Laboratory 3 Staff 5:00p - 5:45p Dinner 6:30p – 7:30p Course intro: Introduction to Kibbey/ Ichthyology, museums, online Gray resources, external fish morphology and characters WEEK ONE: Introduction, Fish Morphology and Primitive Fishes Monday: 7:00a - 7:45a Breakfast Helfman et al. Ch. 1, 12 Kibbey 18 June 8:00a - 9:00a Lecture 1: Architecture of the fishes & 13 – Skeleton, Skin and Scales 9:15a – 11:45ap Field Trip: Seining at Alligator Bar, collect fish fauna 12:00p - 12:45p Lunch 1:00p – 3:45p Lab I: Taxonomy - introduction to methods including use of dichotomous keys, preservation of specimens, rough sort Alligator Bar fish species 3:45p – 4:00p Break 4:00p – 4:45p Lecture 2: Lungfishes, Hagfishes, Lampreys, Sharks, Rays, and Chimeras 5:00p – 5:45p Dinner 6:00p – 7:00p Open Review Wed.: 7:00a - 7:45a Breakfast Helfman et al. Ch. 4 & Kibbey 20 June 8:00a - 9:00a Lecture 3: Sturgeon and Paddlefish, 13 Bichirs and Reedfish, Gars and Bowfin 9:00a – 9:15a Break 9:45 – 12:00p Lab II: Dipnoi, agnathans, elasmobranchs, and holocephalans, chondrosteans, cladistians, and lower neopterygians (holosteans) 12:00p - 12:45p Lunch 1:00p – 4:00p Field Trip: Gibraltar Island Beach Lab III: Taxonomy, sort and identify Gibraltar Beach fish species 4:00p – 4:45p Lecture 4: Soft Anatomy 5:00p – 5:45p Dinner 6:00p – 7:00p Open Review Friday: 7:00a - 7:45a Breakfast Helfman et al. Ch. 5 Zimmerman 22 June 8:00a – 4:45p Field Trip: Mainland Trips – Warm- & Kibbey water Streams: Sandusky River at Tiffin, Ohio Pioneer Mill Dam for River Redhorse and Greater

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Redhorse, and Huron River at Milan Nature Preserve for Bigeye Chub 12:00p - 12:45p Lunch (sack lunches provided) 4:00p – 4:45p Lecture 5: Oxygen Requirements, Respiration and Circulation, Metabolism and Energetics 5:00p – 5:45p Dinner 6:00p – 7:00p Open Review WEEK TWO: Physiology and Field Methods Monday: 7:00a - 7:45a Breakfast Helfman et al. Ch. 13 Kibbey 25 June 8:00a - 9:00a Lecture 6: Eels, Bonytongues, Minnows, Tetras and Catfish, Shad, Trout and Cod 9:00a – 11:00a Lab IV: Taxonomy, sort and identify Sandusky and Huron River fish species, perch dissections

11:00a – 11:45a Quiz I: Lectures 1-5 and Labs I-III 12:00p - 12:45p Lunch 1:00p – 3:45p Field Trip: Seining at Gibraltar Isle Beach, collect fish and data 4:00p – 4:45p Lecture 7: Sensory Systems, Reproduction and Ontogeny 5:00p – 5:45p Dinner 6:00p – 7:00p Open Review Wednes.: 7:00a - 7:45a Breakfast Helfman et al. Ch. 14 Kibbey 27 June 8:00a - 9:30a Lecture 8 & Lab V: IBI and LIBI, HHHI, QHEI and LQHEI 9:45a - 12:00p Lab VI: elopomorphs, osteoglossomorphs, ostariophysans, clupeamorphs, protocanthopterygians and paracanthopterygians 12:00p - 12:45p Lunch 1:00p - 4:00p Field Trip: Perry’s Monument Beach and Terwilliger’s Pond 4:15p – 4:45p Lab Practical I: Labs I-IV 5:00p – 5:45p Dinner 6:00p – 7:00p Open Review (student’s option) Friday: 7:00a - 7:45a Breakfast Helfman et al. Ch. 16 & Zimmerman 29 June 8:00a – 4:00p Field Trip: Mainland Warmwater 17 & Kibbey Streams: Maumee River at Grand Rapids Dam: Sand Darters galore! and Cranberry Run or Auglaize River: Reintroduction of Pirate Perch a rousing success! 12:00p - 12:45p Lunch (Sack lunches provided) 4:00 – 4:45p Lecture 9: Adaptations, Habitats, Zoogeography 5:00p - 5:45p Dinner

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6:00p - 7:00p Open review (student’s option) WEEK THREE: Fish Behavior and Projects Monday: 7:00a - 7:45a Breakfast Helfman et al. Ch. 21,22 Gray 02 July 8:00a – 8:30a Quiz II: Lectures 6-9, Labs V-VI 8:45a – 11:45a Lecture 10: Fish Behavior Project - Hypothesis and 12:00p - 12:45p Lunch Design (by end of day) 1:00p – 2:00p Lecture 11: Applied Fish Behavior 2:00p – 4:45p Behavior Project: Development and Design 5:00p - 5:45p Dinner 6:00p - 7:00p Open review (student’s option) Wednes.: 7:00a - 7:45a Breakfast TBD Gray 04 July 8:00a – 4:30p Field Trip: Kelley’s Island seining 12:00p - 12:45p Lunch (Sack lunches provided) 5:00p - 5:45p Dinner 6:00p - 7:00p Open review (student’s option) Friday: 7:00a - 7:45a Breakfast TBD Gray 06 July 8:00a – 11:45 Field Trip: North Bass Island seining 12:00p - 12:45p Lunch 1:00p – 4:45p Behavior Project: Data Collection 5:00p - 5:45p Dinner 6:00p - 7:00p Open review (student’s option) WEEK FOUR: Fish Behavior Projects and Applied Ecology Monday: 7:00a - 7:45a Breakfast TBD Gray 09 July 8:00a – 11:45a Behavior Projects: Data Collection 12:00p - 12:45p Lunch 1:00p – 4:45p Behavior Projects: Data Collection 5:00p - 5:45p Dinner 6:00p - 7:00p Open review (student’s option) Wednes.: 7:00a - 7:45a Breakfast TBD Gray 11 July 8:00a – 11:45a Field Trip: Lake Trawling 12:00p - 12:45p Lunch Project - Data entered 1:00p – 4:45p Behavior Projects: Data Analysis (by end of day) 5:00p - 5:45p Dinner 6:00p - 7:00p Open review (student’s option) Friday: 7:00a - 7:45a Breakfast TBD Zimmerman 13 July & Kibbey 8:00a – 4:45p Field Trip: East Harbor Shock Boat sampling: The Spotted Gar Lives! 12:00p - 12:45p Lunch (sack lunch provided) 4:00 – 4:45p Lecture 12: Homeostasis, Locomotion and Feeding 5:00p - 5:45p Dinner 6:00p - 7:00p Open review (student’s option) WEEK FIVE: More Sampling Fun, and Ultimate Fishes Monday: 7:00a - 7:45a Breakfast TBD Kibbey 16 July 8:00a – 8:30a Quiz III: Lectures 10-12 8:30a – 9:30a Lecture 13: Mullets, Perches and Puffers 9:30a – 12:00p Lab VII: acanthopterygians

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12:00p - 12:45p Lunch 1:00p - 4:00p Lab VIII: acanthopterygians 4:00p - 5:00p Lecture 14: Threats to the Diversity of Fishes, Conservation 5:00p - 5:45p Dinner 6:00p - 7:00p Open review (student’s option)

Wednes.: 7:00a - 7:45a Breakfast TBD Kibbey 18 July 8:00a – 8:45a Lab Practical II: Labs V-VIII 8:45a – 11:45a Field Trip: NE South Bass Island Beach, collect fish and data 12:00p - 12:45p Lunch 1:00p – 3:45p Lab IX: Taxonomy, sort and identify Mainland, SBI fish species, dissections 3:45p – 4:00p Break 4:00p – 4:45p Lecture 15: TBD

5:00p – 5:45p Dinner

6:00p - 7:00p Open review (student’s option) Friday: 7:00a - 7:45a Breakfast Kibbey 20 July 8:00a – 11:45a Course Review 12:00p - 12:45p Lunch Saturday: 7:00a - 7:45a Breakfast Behavior Report Due at Kibbey 21 July 8:00a - 9:00a Course review (student’s option), 12:00p Report Due 9:00a - 10:00a Laboratory Practical Final

10:00a - 12:00p Final Exam 12:00p - 12:45p Lunch

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