NTRES 4940

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NTRES 4940
Special Topics in Natural Resources

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2016-2017.

The department teaches "trial" courses under this number. Offerings vary by semester and are advertised by the department before the semester starts. Courses offered under the number will be approved by the department curriculum committee, and the same course is not offered more than twice under this number.

When Offered Fall or spring.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: NTRES 6940

  • 2 Credits Sat/Unsat

  • Topic: Decision Making in Natural Resources Management

  • 17966 NTRES 4940   LEC 002

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  • This course will provide an introduction to the principles and practice of structured decision making and its application in natural resource management. Students will become familiar with methods for finding optimal solutions to decision problems, and will apply these methods to natural resource problems. Students will become familiar with the application of quantitative decision modeling tools: single and multiple-objective trade-off techniques, decision trees, Bayesian belief and decision networks, linear programming, and dynamic optimization.

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one laboratory.

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Molecular Tools Ecology/Conservation

  • 17976 NTRES 4940   LEC 003

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  • Pre-requisite: BIOEE 1780, and an introductory genetics course (e.g. NTRES 2830, BIOMG 2800/2801, ANSC 2210, PLBR 2250) or permission of instructor. Molecular genetics has become one of the fastest growing fields in the life sciences, and application of molecular methods has spread to virtually all fields of modern biology. In this course, we will examine how DNA analysis and modern ‘omics’ technologies can be used to address important issues in ecology, conservation, and natural resource management such as identification of species, populations, and individuals, reconstruction of phylogenetic and kinship relationships, and inference of migration patterns, behavior, and abundance. The focus will be on practical applications, and students will develop both a theoretical understanding of the methods and hands-on experience with all steps from sample collection, molecular biology laboratory techniques, data analysis, and communication of results.

  • Topic: Molecular Tools Ecology/Conservation

  • 17991 NTRES 4940   LAB 401

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