Washington Education Activities

Courses Taught

• Applications of Bioenergetics Models to Research and Management The course illustrates how research and monitoring programs can be designed and integrated with bioenergetic models to address questions related to food web ecology, population regulation, conservation biology, climate change, invasive species, habitat restoration, and others. Bioenergetics modeling provides an effective approach for:
  -Determining what factors affect growth
  -Quantifying food web interactions
  -Examining potential responses to climate change and non-native species
  -Estimating carrying capacity
  -Quantifying predation mortality
  -Examining energetic consequences of alternative life history strategies
  -Bio-accumulation of contaminants
  -Nutrient recycling (Dave Beauchamp 2011)
• Aquatic Food Webs Students should gain an understanding for how environmental and ecological processes influence physiology and behavior of individual organisms which contribute to the structure and function of aquatic food webs in ways that affect water quality and species of interest for society, management, and conservation. This course will examine how temporal-spatial variability in environmental conditions, nutrients, food supply, predation, and competition among species and life stages regulate species in freshwater and marine food webs. Behavior and physiology of individuals will be mechanistically linked to distribution, trophic interactions, and processes relevant to ecosystem-based management. (Dave Beauchamp 2010)
• Graduate proposal writing (Dave Beauchamp 2009)
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Training Offered

• Modeling the energetic consequences of alternate life history strategies in resident and anadromous salmonids. Workshop leader-instructor. Centro Nacional Patagonico–CONICET, Puerto Madryn, Chubut, Argentina. April 27-29, 2009. (Dave Beauchamp April 2009)
• Bioenergetics Modeling of Aquatic Food Webs. Instructor, 5-day shorcourse sponsored by the Fulbright Scholar Grant Progam. Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Bariloche, Rio Negro, Argentina. April 13-17, 2009. (Dave Beauchamp April 2009)
• Tools for quantifying food web dynamics: Trout foraging and bioenergetics modeling workshop. Instructor. 1-day workshop. Department of Conservation, Turangi, New Zealand. January 21, 2009 (Dave Beauchamp January 2009)
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