Links

• List of U of O students in the various modules for 2012 in pdf
• Central website of the OUPFB
• Ecology of Amphibians & Reptiles
• Introduction to Tropical Ecosystems
• Ecology of East African Ecosystems

Dr. Gabriel Blouin-Demers Full Professor Department of Biology University of Ottawa 377 Gendron, 30 Marie-Curie Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5

Phone: 613-562-5800 ext 6749 Fax: 613-562-5486 Email Web You can contact me with your questions regarding field courses. I am not always in my office. Thus, if you want to see me in person, make an appointment by email first.

Many of you will be taking modules that are not offered by the University of Ottawa. Thus, you should let me know about particularly good experiences. You should also let me know if the field course did not meet your expectations. This way, I can better guide students in their choices and, if serious problems are identified, I can bring it to the attention of other co-ordinators at our annual meeting in early December. You feedback will help improve the system.

Intended audience

All students wanting to specialize in the Ecology, Evolution & Behaviour stream of BIO or in the Conservation and Biodiversity stream of EVS should take field courses in preparation for their Honours thesis work. We strongly encourage all other students to take field courses also. In fact, we encourage you to take several field courses. Multiple field courses will always appear on your transcript as BIO3103, but we will add the module title as the title of the course. Thus, you could have, for example, both BIO3103 Applied Wildlife Ecology and BIO3103 Ecology of Amphibians & Reptiles on your transcript.

OUPFB Registration procedure

The full list of modules offered, with their costs, prerequisites, duration, dates, and more can be found on the central OUPFB website.

I will hold an information session on field courses on Tuesday 17 January 2012 at 17:30 in GNN 080. If you are thinking about taking a field course, you should attend this information session. I will talk about the program, explain the registration procedure, give examples of field courses, and answer your questions.

In 2012, registration will start on Thursday 19 January at 9:00 and end on Tuesday 31 january at 15:00. Registration will then close for approximately two weeks, during which time the participating universities will get together and assign students to modules according to their choice and their order of registration (early registrants get priority). As many spaces as possible will be filled at this time. Thus, your very best bet to get into the module you want is to submit your registration material ASAP. The information on which courses are full will be posted on the central OUPFB website in late February. We will then re-open registration and accept registration for modules that were not filled until they are full or until they start.

The registration will be on a “first come, first served” basis. To register, you have to complete the registration, waiver, and contact forms. Submit the forms to Annie Landry in the Biology office, first floor of Gendron Hall. Be warned that the doors of Gendron Hall open at 7:30 AM. Thus, dress very warmly if you plan to line-up at the door before then. ONLY USE YOUR @UOTTAWA.CA EMAIL ACCOUNT in your forms. We get too many bounce backs with other accounts.

We have a limited number of reserved places on each module, so you will be asked if a second choice would be acceptable in the event that your first choice is full. If all the places reserved for U of O on the module for which you wished to register have been taken, you will be put on a waiting list for that module. If some universities do not fill their reserved places on that course, you will be registered for it. If all the spaces are filled, you will be assigned your second choice or you will be put on a waiting list if you only gave one choice. Once you have been assigned to a module in early March, I will post the list of modules with their participants in pdf on this page. Thus, check this website regularly to find out in which module we were able to place you.

With your registration forms, you will need to provide a $250 deposit (by cheque payable to the University of Ottawa) for each module you want to take. This deposit is refundable if we are unable to register you for a module that interests you. If you decide to drop a module, your deposit will be refunded only if the course instructor allows it.

You need to take two weeks of field course to get 3 credits. Therefore, if you do not take a module that lasts two weeks or more, you will need to take two modules (the mark you will receive will be the average mark for the two modules). The course code for registration is BIO3103 (2 weeks, 3 credits) no matter which of the 14 universities is offering your module, but you do not register for this course yourself. Annie Landry will register you once you have been assigned to a module.

Among equivalent or similar modules, try to take modules offered by the Univeristy of Ottawa. The registration in our own modules is what maintains our reserved places in the program.

 

updated: 8-dec-11 19:36