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This seminar offers students an opportunity to explore environmental careers that are appropriate for students in environmental conservation, sustainability science, and related fields. We will meet weekly to work on the requested elements for the professional world after graduation, such as resumes, networking, mentoring, interview skills, and more. We will also examine top sectors and growing fields to help students in professional degree programs position themselves for their intended career.

Students in this course will read and discuss current publications that span the entire field of our graduate program. Regularly scheduled discussions will be led by each member of our graduate faculty. This course provides an overview of the breadth and an introduction to the depth of research in our field and serves as a primer for all our graduate students.

Our understanding of animal migration has progressed by leaps and bounds in recent decades, but how do we know what we know? This seminar will focus on understanding the foundations of the modern study of migration and incorporate studies from a wide range of taxa. Course materials will emphasize a reading of both the classical and contemporary primary literature.

The course serves as a dynamic sampling of the multiple disciplines necessary to create or modify the Built Environment. Discussions based on lectures presented by various educators, researchers, and practitioners; experts in their fields will provide students with a broadened perspective, which will help foster critical thinking and provide a more expansive view of the Built Environment.

This seminar will discuss recent and emerging topics of how climate change is impacting fish, wildlife and related natural resources. Students will become familiar with the latest literature and scientific approaches on ecological responses to climate change as well as management, conservation and adaptation strategies being implemented to decrease risk and vulnerability to climate and interactive stressors.

Provides graduate students with a broad sampling of new and cutting-edge research related to environmental conservation to help foster critical thinking and provide a more expansive view of natural resources research. Seminars will be given by departmental faculty and faculty from other departments, both on campus and from other institutions. The seminars will be designed for both students who plan a research career and those who plan a more applied path.

This course will introduce students to the current best practices regarding developing, transforming, managing and sharing geospatial data. This course focuses on exposing students to state-of-the-art approaches in retrieving/querying, aggregating and processing geospatial data from multiple heterogeneous sources/systems and technologies, such as relational databases (RDBMS), spatially-enabled RDBMS, XML-based spatial data, KML, Web-services/APIs, JSON/GeoJSON, CAD, BIM/IFC, and file-based databases (SQLite and GeoPackage).

This course will use the primary literature to examine novel approaches for assessing the impacts of angling on recreational fish stocks as well as how humans interface with fish and aquatic systems during this popular leisure activity. Our class will be comprised of student-led discussions linked to assigned readings, critiques of the way angling in portrayed by the popular media, and the extent of the conservation message being offered by angling organizations and governments.

Wood is an amazing building material: It is beautiful and warm to the touch. It is easy to machine and abundantly available. It is light, yet strong and stiff. And best of all: It comes from a renewable source. To build with wood, however, requires understanding its peculiarities: the variability of its properties, its interaction with water and the possibility of biodeterioration. This course introduces graduate students to the physical and mechanical properties of wood as applies to construction and architecture.