<p>
	<img alt="" src="{filedir_5}DI_3(1).png" style="width: 250px; height: 188px; float: right;" />Not every Au Sable course can claim to be taught by a fourth-degree black belt in karate, or an instructor who can cut a dashing figure in a wet suit, but &ldquo;Aqua Man Dan&rdquo; Ippolito provides this and much more to Au Sable&rsquo;s <em>Aquatic Biology</em> course<strong>, </strong>offered annually at Au Sable&rsquo;s Great Lakes Campus each year in Summer Session I (June and July). Starting his college studies by earning a BS in Biology from Yale University, Dan went on to gain a PhD in Zoology from the University of Texas where his doctoral research focused on competition between an aquatic invasive species (blue tilapia) and native bass in a power plant reservoir in the eastern part of the state.&nbsp; After teaching marine biology at the University of New England in southern Maine for four years, Dan joined the faculty of Anderson University in Indiana, where he has now taught for 26 years.</p>
