Essays

Essays

Three essays have been scheduled for the year.

For your essays, you will be given five papers as your only source of references. When referencing pay attention to the problems of plagiarism (see Rhodes policy on plagiarism available from the RU website or in the document).

The maximum length for an Ichthyology II essay is 1250 words (approximately 4 pages of double spaced, 12pt Times Roman typed text).

References must be in format of African Journal of Marine Science.

The essay topics and deadline dates are:

Friday 15th March - Lecturer: Tony Booth

How fish utilise vortices when swimming

• Sfakiotakis et al. Review of fish swimming modes for aquatic locomotion
• Muller et al. How the body contributes to the wake in undulatory fish swimming: flow field of a swimming eel (Anguilla anguilla)
• Lao et al. Fish exploiting vortices decrease muscle activity
• Linden and Turner ‘Optimal’ vortex rings and aquatic propulsion mechanisms
• Lauder and Drucker Forces, fishes, and fluids: hydrodynamic mechanisms of aquatic locomotion

Friday 18th May - Lecturer: Cliff Jones

Do fish feel pain?

Friday 23rd August - Lecturer: Pete Britz

Essay title:  What are the expected responses of Southern African Marine Fish stocks to climate change? Discuss with reference to the life history styles and ecological requirements of selected commercial marine species.