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GES 120
Introduction to Environmental Science & Conservation
This course introduces the fundamentals on how earth systems and ecosystems work, how they are interconnected, and how humans utilize and impact natural resource systems. Environmental problems and solutions are examined and natural resource conservation strategies and policies are reviewed. Topics include ecosystem processes, climate and climate change, biodiversity and endangered species, land degradation and deforestation, human population growth, agriculture, and water and soil resources.
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GES 305
Landscape Ecology
Landscape ecology explores the spatial
patterning of ecological processes across living
landscapes. This course introduces the
fundamentals of ecology within a landscape
ecology context and then applies these concepts
as tools for sustainable management of landscape
structure and function at local, regional and
global scales.
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GES 412/612 Biogeochemical Cycles in the Global Environment
This course explores the chemistry and cycling of elements across the Earth's surface and atmosphere, with special emphasis on human-induced changes in biogeochemistry that are driving global warming, ocean acidification, acid rain, ozone depletion, water pollution; and nutrient saturation of freshwater, estuarine and coastal environments. The basic biogeochemical processes
are introduced and then integrated to explain the global cycles of water, carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur and how these are changed by human activities. |
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GES 405/605 Applied Landscape Ecology
This course applies the tools of landscape ecology, including
GIS, remote sensing, aerial photography and landscape
classification, to explore the spatial patterning of ecological
processes across landscapes at different scales. Hands-on lab
and field exercises help students develop understanding and skills
necessary to plan and conduct their own
investigations of landscape pattern, process, and change in
local and regional landscapes in collaboration with the
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GES 485/685 Field Methods in Geography & Environmental Systems
Environmental Mapping of Local Landscapes
Students in this course gain hands-on experience with field
methods for landscape ecology, including sampling, mapping and
spatial analysis of soils, vegetation, soil organisms, stream
hydrology and land use patterns in local landscapes using GIS,
GPS, imagery and other techniques. The class meets one session
each week and six full-day Saturday sessions for fieldwork;
scheduling to be arranged. Students work in teams and prepare
final projects that are presented as scientific posters and on
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GES 483: Geographic Information System (GIS) Internship
Students do technical work using
GIS in
our lab, on
projects we are currently
working on
GES 491: Independent Study
Students develop their own research projects and conduct
them in collaboration with me and others in our lab. Topics depend on
overlapping interests between me and the student. GES 497: Research InternshipStudents work together with me and others on
current research projects
in our lab.
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