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	<img alt="" src="{filedir_5}Limnology-200pxl.jpg" style="width: 200px; height: 267px; float: right;" />Good ecology and good education have this in common:&nbsp;<em>integration</em>. At Au Sable, perhaps no course does integration better than&nbsp;<a href="/courses/course_information/summer_session_ii_great_lakes/#Limnology">Lake Ecology and Management</a>. Between field and lab, Lake Ecology and Management students learn good ecology by integrating physical, chemical, and biological science through studies of underwater ecosystems at a number of the 900 lakes surrounding the Au Sable campus in northern Michigan. At the same time, the course uses good education techniques by integrating knowledge, skills, and service through its extensive field experiences. Venturing out into the lake, students learn skills for collecting data on the temperature, chemistry, and organisms within its waters, the same skills aquatic scientists use in their professional work. Returning to land, students gain knowledge of lake ecosystems by piecing together the data they have collected to understand how complex lake ecosystems work. Lastly, students service the local community by taking the information collected about each lake and putting together an informative report for the local Lake Association, made up of neighbors who live in cottages around the lake, to help them serve, protect, and restore their lake.&nbsp;</p>
