Instructor: Jim Ehleringer
When offered: Thursdays, October 22 – December 10, 2015
Time and location: 4:35p – 5:55p, 504 Aline Skaggs Biology
Course description:
Enter the wonderful world of stable isotopes. Here your diet, your location, and your metabolism can all be recorded and then revealed through chemical analysis of biological materials, ranging from breath to hair to teeth and bones. In this fresher seminar, students will be introduced to the ways in which biology, chemistry, anthropology, geology, geography, and business intersect. In our seminar, students will learn about available research and training opportunities that allow you to explore topics ranging from health to ecology and from athletics to climate change. Hear from students and experts exploring such diverse topics as diet and human evolution, where does your food come from, dietary patterns across the Salt Lake Valley, bird migration, and air quality. See the stable isotope mass spectrometer facility and learn how you too can do stable isotope research with faculty from labs in Biology and others across campus.
Syllabus and schedule
When offered: Thursdays, October 22 – December 10, 2015
Time and location: 4:35p – 5:55p, 504 Aline Skaggs Biology
Course description:
Enter the wonderful world of stable isotopes. Here your diet, your location, and your metabolism can all be recorded and then revealed through chemical analysis of biological materials, ranging from breath to hair to teeth and bones. In this fresher seminar, students will be introduced to the ways in which biology, chemistry, anthropology, geology, geography, and business intersect. In our seminar, students will learn about available research and training opportunities that allow you to explore topics ranging from health to ecology and from athletics to climate change. Hear from students and experts exploring such diverse topics as diet and human evolution, where does your food come from, dietary patterns across the Salt Lake Valley, bird migration, and air quality. See the stable isotope mass spectrometer facility and learn how you too can do stable isotope research with faculty from labs in Biology and others across campus.
Syllabus and schedule