EECB | Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology | University of Hawaii at Manoa

EECB Course Requirements and Approved Courses

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Courses Fulfilling EECB requirements - Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020

EECB course requirements consist of one course each in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology at the 600 or 700 level, at least 2 credits. For additional information please scroll down.

Spring 2019

BOT 612 Biology and Evolution of Ferns and Lycophytes (Ranker) - fulfills Evolution

GG 639 Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry (Popp) - fulfills Ecology

ZOOL 719 Topics in Systematics and Evolution (Porter) - fulfills Evolution

ZOOL 781 Foundations of Evolution and Ecology, part 2 (Thomson, Wright, Reed) - fulfills Evolution and Ecology when taken with Zool 780

Fall 2019

BOT 612 Advanced Botanical Problems: The Beak of the Finch - fulfills Evolution

BOT 612 Advanced Botanical Problems: Plant-animal Interactions on Islands: Past, Present, and Future (Drake) - fulfills Conservation Biology or Ecology (not both)

PEPS 662 Systematics and Phylogenetics (Rubinoff) – fulfills Evolution

TPSS 711 Quantitative Genomics and Evolution (Kantar) - fulfills Evolution

ZOOL 750 Special Topics in Conservation: Models and Inference in Conservation Biology (Thomson) – fulfills Conservation Biology

Spring 2020

BOT 661 Hawaiian Vascular Plants (Morden) - fulfills Evolution

MBIO 715 Marine Conservation Biology (Hixon) - fulfills Conservation Biology

ZOOL 719 Macroevolution (Butler) - fulfills Evolution

EECB Fellowships

Each spring semester EECB offers the Maybelle Roth Fellowships, the Watson T. Yoshimoto Fellowships and the Hampton and Meredith Carson Fellowships. The Maybelle Roth Fellowships are administered though the ARCS Foundation, while the Yoshimoto and Carson Fellowships are administered through EECB. All are considered as EECB Fellowships. Applications are reviewed by the EECB Grants and Fellowships Committee. Funds from the fellowships must be used in support of the research and related academic purposes outlined in the application. They are not stipends, and may not be used for tuition or other, non-academic purposes. Each fellowship is awarded only once during a student’s tenure as an EECB student.

The deadline for applications to be recieved is 15 February (or, if this falls on a weekend or holiday, the deadline is the following Monday or the day after the holiday). Submit your applications to the EECB Chair, Cliff Morden, by e-mail (cmorden @hawaii.edu).

Criteria the Committee will use in evaluating fellowship applications include relevance of the research to the EECB goals, importance/originality of the proposed research, feasibility of the project, etc. Involvement of students in the EECB program will also be taken into consideration. Also, students must have completed some of the required EECB coursework to be considered (2 of 3 for the Roth fellowship; 1 of 3 for Yoshimoto and Carson fellowships). Look at the form the Committee uses to guide its reviews of applications (it is available by clicking on the link below), as this form outlines the criteria in more detail. Make sure that you address each criterion appropriately.

If your application includes a request for funding to travel to a conference, it must involve a presentation representing work done while you were in the EECB program.

Fellowship Application Form

Fellowship Application Review Form

Maybelle Roth Fellowships

The Maybelle Roth Fellowship is a $5,000 award. Generally two are awarded each year. These fellowships are generally awarded to a relatively senior graduate student (but consult with the EECB Grants and Fellowships Committee for more information and advice). Only doctoral students who are US citizens are eligible. They are awarded in part on the basis of an application for research support, but a major additional criterion on which applications are assessed is the student’s academic accomplishments. A student who is awarded an EECB Maybelle Roth Fellowship is then eligible for the ARCS Student of the Year Award (this is not an EECB award), an additional award based on the merits of her/his accomplishments. The $5,000 award is given directly to the student.

Watson T. Yoshimoto Fellowships

Mr. Yoshimoto, the benefactor of the Yoshimoto Fellowships, gave EECB an endowment that supports up to four fellowships annually (valued at up to $5000) depending on availability of funds. These fellowships are open to any EECB student (you need not be an US citizen) who is doing research on “the conservation of wildlife existing on earth, including the preservation of the habitats where they live”. The quote is taken from the Memorandum of Understanding between Mr. Yoshimoto’s Foundation and UH. They are awarded on the basis of an application for research support and an evaluation of how the proposed research will benefit wildlife conservation. It is important to note that Mr. Yoshimoto’s idea of “wildlife” was lions, bears, elephants, etc. However, while most research projects within EECB can be argued as having some bearing on this, perhaps related to general and/or theoretical principles, your specific Yoshimoto Fellowship statement (see the application form) must make this connection explicit – it is recommended that you ask the Grants Committee or especially Dr. Kaneshiro if you are unsure about this. The award is given directly to the student.

Hampton and Meredith Carson Fellowships

Hamp Carson (1914-2004) was one of the great pioneers of modern evolutionary biology. He was a professor at the University of Hawaii from 1971. Most of his work was on Drosophila and he was a founding member of the "Hawaiian Drosophila Project", pioneering the use of cytogenetics in the study of evolution in this spectacular radiation. He was a great synthesizer, bringing his research in cytology, ecology and genetics to bear on big evolutionary questions. His body of research was extremely influential and highly regarded and in 1979 he was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences, winning the Academy's pretigious Leidy Medal in 1985 for his work on Hawaiian Drosophila. Also a committed educator and member of the EECB faculty, he and his wife Meredith, on their passing, left their Big Island retreat to the University and endowed the Hampton and Meredith Carson Fellowships. They are awarded on the basis of an application for research support, with up to four fellowships available annually (valued at up to $5000) depending on availability of funds. As a reflection of Hamp's broad interests in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology, most research in EECB is eligible for support, although ideally this should be within an evolutionary context. The award is given directly to the student.

EECB Course Requirements

EECB course requirements consist of one course each in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology at the 600 or 700 level, at least 2 credits. Courses taken at other universities cannot be used to fulfill EECB course requirements but approved courses taken at the University of Hawaii prior to admission to EECB can count towards the EECB requirements.

In addition, students must complete all degree requirements of the home academic department and participate in EECB activites, particularly the "Evoluncheon" seminar series held weekly.

Generic Course Titles

Generic course titles such as BOT612 Advanced Botanical Problems, BOT654 Advances in Plant Ecology, or ZOOL 739 Topics in Ecology, the content of which may differ each time it is offered, require evaluation by the EECB curriculum committee each time a new course is offered. For such courses please submit the syllabus to the EECB chair who will pass it to the curriculum committee to determine whether it will fulfill one or more of the three course requirements. If, after the fact, you wish to know whether a course you took previously will fulfill one of the EECB requirements, please also submit a syllabus to the EECB chair who will again pass it to the curriculum committee for evaluation.

Courses no longer offered

Some of the courses listed below are no longer offered or were 'one-off' courses. They remain on the list for now so that students who took these courses in the past can see which ones fulfill which requirements. However, the course designations for these courses are enclosed in brackets, at least those that are known to be no longer offered.

EECB Approved Courses

Ecology	Evolution	Conservation Biology
ANTH 606 Anthropology of Infectious Disease (3)	ANTH 604 Physical Anthropology (3)	ANTH 620H Human Ecology (3)
ANTH 620h Theory in social and cultural anthropology (ecology) or Seminar in Nature/Culture/ Power Padwe (Spring 2015, Spring 2018)	BOT 603 [was BOT 612] Origin of Species (2) Ranker (Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017)	BOT 612 Advanced Botanical Problems. IUCN Red List assessments (2) Morden (Spring 2016, Spring 2017)
[BOT 612/ANTH 750B] Ecological impact of alien rats Drake/Hunt	[BOT 610] Seed Ecology	BOT 612 Advanced Botanical Problems. Ecology and conservation of coastal terrestrial plant and animal communities (2) Drake & Morden (Spring 2014)
[BOT 612] Advanced Botanical Problems. Seed Ecology	[BOT 612] Advanced Botanical Problems. Plants, Animals and Islands	BOT 612 Advanced Botanical Problems. Approaches to assessing the conservation of culturally important plants: a collaboration with the IUCN Medicinal Plants Specialist Group (2) Ticktin (Spring 2017)
[BOT 612] Advanced Botanical Problems. Plants, Animals and Islands	[BOT 612] Advanced Botanical Problems. Biology and Evolution of Ferns and Lycophytes (2) Ranker (Spring 2009, Spring 2019)	BOT 612 Advanced Botanical Problems. Plant-animal Interactions on islands: past, present, and future (2) Drake (Fall 2019)
BOT 612 Advanced Botanical Problems. Coastal Restoration Ecology (2) Barton (Spring 2016)	[BOT 612] Advanced Botanical Problems. Plant-animal Interactions (2) Drake (Spring 2011)	BOT 651 Invasion Biology (3)
[BOT 612] Advanced Botanical Problems. Plant-animal Interactions (2) Drake (Spring 2011)	[BOT 612] Advanced Botanical Problems. Pacific Biogeography (2) Keeley/Funk (Spring 2012)	BOT 690 Conservation Biology (3)
[BOT 612] Advanced Botanical Problems. The Evolutionary Ecology of Plant Defense (2) Barton (Spring 2013)	[BOT 612] Advanced Botanical Problems. The Evolutionary Ecology of Plant Defense (2) Barton (Spring 2013)	BOT 750 Seamount Ecology and Fisheries (2-4) Watling (Spring 2009, Spring 2011)
BOT 612 Advanced Botanical Problems. Ecology of Microbial Symbioses (2) [was BOT 612 Ecology of Fungal Symbioses, Hynson, Fall 2014] Hynson (Fall 2015)	BOT 612 The Beak of the Finch (2) Morden (Fall 2019)	GEOG 750 Research Seminar. Biogeography
BOT 612 Advanced Botanical Problems. Modeling Population Dynamics in R (3) Gaoue (Fall 2016)	BOT 620 Advances in Plant Eoclogy Drake (Fall 2008) Pollination Ecology (2)	GEOG 752 Research Seminar. Biogeography
BOT 612 Advanced Botanical Problems. Plant-animal Interactions on islands: past, present, and future (2) Drake (Fall 2019)	BOT 661 Hawaiian Vascular Plants (3)	GEOG 758 Research Seminar. Conservation (3)
[BOT 620] Disturbance Ecology (2) Walker (Spring 2010)	BOT 662 Advanced Systematics (4) Rubinoff (Fall 2019 and some previous years)	MBIO 715 Marine Conservation Biology (3) Hixon (Fall 2015, Spring 2018, Spring 2020)
Bot 620 Advances in Plant Ecology: Pollination Ecology (2) Drake (Fall 2008)	BOT 669 [was BOT 675] Molecular Systematics and Evolution (3)	NREM 610 Research Methods in Population Management and Conservation (3-4) Price [was NREM 691, Fall 2015, Spring 2017]
BOT 644 Ethnoecological Methods (3)	CMB 604 Evolutionary Genetics (2)	NREM 611 Resource and Environmental Policy (3) Oleson (Fall 2013)
BOT 650 Ecology Seminar (2)	[CMB 625] Advanced Topics in Genetics (2) Cann (Spring 2013)	NREM 690 Conservation Biology (3)
BOT 651 Invasion Biology (3)	CMB 650 Population Genetics (3)	[NREM 691 (002)] Foundations of Conservation and Natural Resources (3) Lepczyk (Spring 2010)
BOT 652 Population Biology (3)	CMB 680 Molecular Genetics (3)	[NREM691] Advanced Topics in NREM. Ecology of Game Animals in Hawaii (2-3) Lepczyk (with Conant) (Spring 2012)
BOT 654 Advances in Plant Ecology. Plant Reproductive Ecology (2) Drake (Fall 2017)	[IS 650] Applied Evolutionary Ecology	PEPS 675/675L Biological Control (3)
BOT 676 Environmental Physiology Seminar	MICR 671 Advanced Microbial Genetics (3)	PEPS 691 Special topics. Insect Conservation Biology (2) Wright (Summer II 2018)
BOT 682 Plants in Marine Environments (4) Smith (Fall 2017)	PEPS 633 Insect Genetics (3)	OCN 621 Biological Oceanography (3)
GG 639 Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry (3) Popp (Spring 2015, Spring 2019)	PEPS 662 Systematics and Phylogenetics (3)	OEST/SOCS 735 Ocean Policy Seminar. Coral Reef Conservation (2) Rieser (Spring 2008)
IS 650 Applied Evolutionary Ecology	[PEPS 691] Biogeography Seminar (2)	[UH Hilo TCBES 600] Principles of tropical conservation biology and environmental science
MICR 680 Advances in Microbial Ecology (3)	PEPS 691 Quantitative Genomics and Evolution (2) Bennett (Fall 2017) [must also enroll in TPSS 711 (Kantar)]	ZOOL 690 Conservation Biology (3)
NREM 612 Degredation of Ecosystems (3) Crow (Spring 2015)	TPSS 615 Quantitative Genetics (3)	[ZOOL 739] Topics in Ecology. Ecology of Game Animals in Hawaii (2-3) Conant (with Lepczyk) (Spring 2012)
NREM 680 Ecosystem Ecology (3) [was NREM 691 (002) Litton, Spring 2008]	TPSS 711 Quantitative Genomics and Evolution (3) Kantar (Fall 2017, Fall 2019)	ZOOL 750 Special Topics in Conservation. Seamount Ecology and Fisheries (2-4) Watling (Spring 2009, Spring 2011)
NREM 682 (002) Restoration Ecology (3) [was NREM 691 (002) Litton, Spring 2008]	TRMD 705 Introduction to Bioinformatics for Life Scientists (2)	ZOOL 750 Special Topics in Conservation. Protected Areas in the Ocean, Rationale, Ecology, and Performance (2) Watling (Spring 2012)
[NREM 685] Landscape Ecology (Fall 2008) [was NREM 691 (001)]	ZOOL 487 (previously ZOOL 497) Molecular Ecology	ZOOL 750 Special Topics in Conservation. Marine Conservation Biology and Policy (3) Hixon (Spring/Fall 2013)
[NREM 691 (002)] Advanced Topics in NREM. Foundations of Conservation and Natural Resources (3) Lepczyk (Spring 2010)	ZOOL 606/606L Principles of Animal Behavior (2/1)	ZOOL 750 Special Topics in Conservation. Models and Inference in Conservation Biology (2) Thomson (Fall 2019)
[NREM 691] Advanced Topics in NREM. Ecology of Game Animals in Hawaii (2-3) Lepczyk (with Conant) (Spring 2012)	ZOOL 610 Larval Biology (3) Moran (Spring 2014)
NREM 691 Advanced Topics in NREM. Forest Nutrition and Biogeochemistry (2-3) Idol (Spring 2013)	ZOOL 621 Evolutionary Ecology (4)
NREM 691 Advanced Topics in NREM. Research Methods in Population Management and Conservation (3-4) Price (Fall 2015, 3 credits; Spring 2017, 4 credits)	ZOOL 714 Topics in Animal Behavior (variable)
OCN 626 Marine Microplankton Ecology (4) Steward	[ZOOL 719] Molecular Ecology (3) Carlon (Fall 2012)
OCN 627 Ecology of Pelagic Marine Animals (3)	ZOOL 719 Evolution in Marine Systems (3) Marko (Fall 2015)
OCN 628 Benthic Biological Oceanography (4)	ZOOL 719 Quantitative Genomics and Evolution (3) Chong (Fall 2018) [was PEPS 691 Bennett]
OCN 629 Molecular Methods in Marine Ecology (2) Wang and Steward	ZOOL 719 Topics in Systematics and Evolution (2) Porter (Spring 2019)
PEPS 671 Insect Ecology (3)	ZOOL 719 Macroevolution (2) Butler (Spring 2020)
PEPS 686 Biology of Insect and Microbe Interactions (3) Bennett (Spring 2017) (to be retitled 2018: Invertebrate Microbiology)	ZOOL 739 Evolutionary Ecology and Macroevolution (2) Butler (Spring 2014)
PEPS 691-004 Insect Outbreaks(2) Haines (Fall 2013)	ZOOL 650 Population Genetics (3) Reed
ZOOL 606/606L Principles of Animal Behavior (2/1)	ZOOL 780 Foundations of Evolution and Ecology (4) (to be taken in conjunction with ZOOL 781)
ZOOL 610 Larval Biology (3) Moran (Spring 2014)	ZOOL 781 Foundations of Evolution and Ecology (4) (to be taken in conjunction with ZOOL 780)
ZOOL 620 Marine Ecology (3)
ZOOL 621 Evolutionary Ecology (4)
ZOOL 623 Quantitative Field Ecology (3)
ZOOL 652 Population Biology (3)
ZOOL 714 *Topics in Animal Behavior (variable)
[ZOOL 739] Fukami
[ZOOL 739] Foundations of Ecology (2) Cowie (Fall 2009, Fall 2017)
[ZOOL 739] Topics in Ecology: Ecology of Game Animals in Hawaii (2-3) Conant (with Lepczyk) (Spring 2012)
ZOOL 739 Evolutionary Ecology and Macroevolution (2) Butler (Spring 2014)
ZOOL 780 Foundations of Evolution and Ecology, part 1 (4) (to be taken in conjunction with ZOOL 781)
ZOOL 781 Foundations of Evolution and Ecology, part 2 (4) (to be taken in conjunction with ZOOL 780)