EDA Courses

Graduate Courses

All graduate courses are developed in collaboration with other staff in the Biodiversity and Spatial Information Center and taught through the NCSU Biology Department.

• Climate Change and Conservation Planning 2009

  Topics: climate change science and modeling, land cover change science and modeling, state wildlife action plans, federal habitat and species recovery plans, landscape ecology principles

  Instructors: Alexa McKerrow, Adam Terando, Ashton Drew, Jaime Collazo

• Hierarchical Species-Habitat Analysis and Conservation 2007 & 2008

  Topics: species and map data collection and management, inductive and deductive modeling approaches, spatial ecology and landscape ecology theory, advanced GIS methods

  Instructors: Jaime Collazo, Alexa McKerrow, Edward Laurent, Steve Williams, Ashton Drew

  Sample projects shared by permission of students:

  1. M. Krachey: Spatial autocorrelation and species richness
  2. K. Oberneufemann: Deer browse impacts on neotropical migrants
  3. N. Tarr: Wooley adelgid impacts on Acadian Flycatchers

Professional Development Courses

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