NRE 2600: Global Sustainable Natural Resources.
Offered every spring. Helton teaches even years. T Rittenhouse teaches odd years.
Description: Having access to clean water, food, and other natural resources is vital for communities to thrive, and the sustainable use of natural resources is one of the most challenging and complex questions for current and future generations. In this course, you will learn about the global challenges in sustainably managing natural resources, and how struggles to manage resources differ between cultures, political boundaries, and eco-regions. We will cover a range of topics, such as marine and freshwater systems, forest resources, food production, and urban development, and learn how to critically evaluate approaches to sustainable management of natural resources.
Objectives: As a result of this course, students should be able to: 1) Compare, contrast, and evaluate approaches to sustainable resource management in different physical, cultural, ecological, political, and economic settings. 2) Understand concepts of resiliency, including thresholds and adapative cycles, how those concepts affect change in social-ecological systems, and how understanding and applying those concepts can address complex challenges to sustainable managing natural resources.
NRE 3205: Stream Ecology
Offered fall, odd years
NRE 5335: Advanced Stream Ecology
Offered fall, odd years
NRE 5695: Special Topic in Natural Resources: Biogeochemical Cycles and Global Change
Offered some springs; Spring 2015, Spring 2019
Description: This course will examine interactions among biogeochemical cycles and global change. Focus will be on both the micro-scale underpinnings of these cycles and the global implications of the processes. The course will cover 1) the origin and development of the Earth and its atmosphere, 2) major biogeochemical cycles, including water, carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur within and between land, atmosphere, oceans, inland waters, and wetlands, and 3) how anthropogenic perturbation to these cycles are related to major contemporary environmental problems, including ocean acidification, global warming, and dead zones.
Objectives: Upon completion of the course, student should be able to: 1) Describe global biogeochemical cycles of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur and understand the small-scale processes involved in these global cycles. 2) Understand the interactions between the atmosphere, terrestrial ecosystems, and aquatic ecosystems, and how differences among these ecosystems influence their biogeochemical cycles. 3) Describe the evolution of contemporary biogeochemical cycles, and 4) Identify and analyze the consequences of anthropogenic perturbation to these cycles.
Offered every spring. Helton teaches even years. T Rittenhouse teaches odd years.
Description: Having access to clean water, food, and other natural resources is vital for communities to thrive, and the sustainable use of natural resources is one of the most challenging and complex questions for current and future generations. In this course, you will learn about the global challenges in sustainably managing natural resources, and how struggles to manage resources differ between cultures, political boundaries, and eco-regions. We will cover a range of topics, such as marine and freshwater systems, forest resources, food production, and urban development, and learn how to critically evaluate approaches to sustainable management of natural resources.
Objectives: As a result of this course, students should be able to: 1) Compare, contrast, and evaluate approaches to sustainable resource management in different physical, cultural, ecological, political, and economic settings. 2) Understand concepts of resiliency, including thresholds and adapative cycles, how those concepts affect change in social-ecological systems, and how understanding and applying those concepts can address complex challenges to sustainable managing natural resources.
NRE 3205: Stream Ecology
Offered fall, odd years
NRE 5335: Advanced Stream Ecology
Offered fall, odd years
NRE 5695: Special Topic in Natural Resources: Biogeochemical Cycles and Global Change
Offered some springs; Spring 2015, Spring 2019
Description: This course will examine interactions among biogeochemical cycles and global change. Focus will be on both the micro-scale underpinnings of these cycles and the global implications of the processes. The course will cover 1) the origin and development of the Earth and its atmosphere, 2) major biogeochemical cycles, including water, carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur within and between land, atmosphere, oceans, inland waters, and wetlands, and 3) how anthropogenic perturbation to these cycles are related to major contemporary environmental problems, including ocean acidification, global warming, and dead zones.
Objectives: Upon completion of the course, student should be able to: 1) Describe global biogeochemical cycles of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur and understand the small-scale processes involved in these global cycles. 2) Understand the interactions between the atmosphere, terrestrial ecosystems, and aquatic ecosystems, and how differences among these ecosystems influence their biogeochemical cycles. 3) Describe the evolution of contemporary biogeochemical cycles, and 4) Identify and analyze the consequences of anthropogenic perturbation to these cycles.
