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Using Online Data for Student Investigations in Biology and Ecology
Abstract
Undergraduate research experiences are difficult to provide in large classes, institutions with no lab or field facilities, and distance-learning courses. This chapter illustrates how to overcome such obstacles and engage undergraduates in environmental and life science investigations using large and rapidly growing online databases including ecological data derived through citizen science and behavioral data available through Cornell University’s archive of sound and video. Examples are provided of driving questions and curricular support of undergraduate investigations focusing on two themes central to undergraduate biology: 1) ecology and conservation, and 2) organismal biology and behavior. These database investigations serve one or more of three pedagogical goals: 1) to enable undergraduates to conduct ecological and biological research in any setting, even where fieldwork is impossible, 2) to set the scene for student fieldwork, or 3) to make it possible for students to view their field data within the context of broader temporal and geographic trends.
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