UBC Biology Students

Thanks everyone for your support with BIOL 140 & 200. We are starting to see BIOL 140 and BIOL 200 students at our in-person desks and we anticipate they will be visiting AskAway too!
The BIOL 140 assignment this term is on salt water/marine organisms. Students are looking for information on their organism, its habitat and abiotic factors that affect its growth, survival, reproduction, behaviour. A good place to start is the course page http://toby.library.ubc.ca/ereserve/er-coursepage.cfm?id=189. We list recommended databases and suggest student try a search for the common and scientific names for the organism – narrowed by terms such as habitat OR ecology. If a student is not finding very much information about their specific species such as Gnorimosphaeroma oregonensis, try a broader search for the genus Gnorimosphaeroma.
The BIOL 200 assignment asks the students to research controversial topics and medical myths. They are asked to formulate their own opinion, based on scientific research (one primary research article and one review article) and one popular source. There is a course page at: http://toby.library.ubc.ca/ereserve/er-coursepage.cfm?id=2224 which includes the topics the students can choose from to research.
Please let me know if you have any questions! Thanks!
Katherine
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Katherine Miller, MLIS
Reference Librarian, Woodward Library
University of British Columbia
email/MSN. katherine.miller@ubc.ca
tel. 604-822-0295