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CRES faculty offer graduate and undergraduate level courses in a variety of topics related to environmental sciences and global change issues, including:

EVSC 430L Management of Forest Ecosystems Lab

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EVEC 522 TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY (Epstein)

This course will focus on community dynamics and functional processes, such as primary production, decomposition and nutrient cycles, in terrestrial ecosystems. Students will gain an understanding of the environmental factors that control vegetation structure, and the balance of energy, water, carbon and other nutrients in terrestrial systems. The interactions among plants, soil and the atmosphere, as well as their dynamics in space and through time, will be discussed. A required laboratory will include field experiments, laboratory procedures, data analysis and simulation modeling.


Remote Sensing(Okin)
This course will concentrate primarily on remote sensing in the visible and infrared wavelength regions. The purpose of the class is to give you an understanding of the fundamentals of remote sensing: i.e. the basic chemistry, physics, and mathematics that form the basis for all remote sensing analysis.

Isotope Geochemistry(Macko)
Investigates natural phenomena by means of stable and unstable isotopes and changes in their abundance, including isotope fractionation. Includes age dating, paleotemperature determination, and isotope tracers in natural systems.

Ecological Issues in Global Change(Shugart)
Introduces the development and application of theoretical constructs and mathematical models for projecting the dynamics of terrestrial ecosystems to large-scale changes in the environment.

Aquatic Ecology(McGlathery)
Reviews the physics and chemistry of fresh-water and marine environments; functional classification of organisms in aquatic communities; and the energy and nutrient dynamics of aquatic communities.