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ESRM 100 Introduction to Environmental Science (5) I&S/NW Harrison
Covers the importance of the environment in society with particular emphasis on worldwide distribution and uses of resources, the role of natural and man-made environments, and causes of environmental degradation. Introduces ethics of conservation and recycling. Cannot be taken for credit if ESC 110 already taken. Offered: AWSpS.
Instructor Course Description:
Robert B. Harrison
Darlene Zabowski
ESRM 101 Forests and Society (5) I&S/NW
Survey course covering forest ecosystems of the world, history of forestry and forest conservation, how forest ecosystems function, wildlife in forests, environmental issues in forestry, forest management, economics and products, and new approaches to forest management. Open to majors and nonmajors. Offered: Sp.
Instructor Course Description:
Kristiina Vogt
ESRM 150 Wildlife in the Modern World (5) I&S/NW Manuwal
Covers major wildlife conservation issues in North America. Some global issues are also treated. Examples of topics include the conservation of large predators, effects of toxic chemicals on wildlife, old-growth wildlife, conservation of marine wildlife, recovery of the bald eagle, and gray wolf. Offered: A.
ESRM 200 Society and Sustainable Environments (5) I&S/NW Bradley, Ryan
Introduces the application of social concepts and theories to understanding and managing urban, urbanizing and wildland landscapes in a sustainable manner. Of particular interest are factors that shape patterns on the landscape and resulting social and economic benefits. Explores landscapes across the urban to wildland gradient. Offered: Sp
Instructor Course Description:
Gordon A Bradley
ESRM 201 Sustaining Pacific Northwest Ecosystems (5) I&S/NW Edmonds, Reichard
Introduces the principles of ecology across an urban to wildland gradient and discusses how these landscapes can be sustainably managed. Explores basic ecological theories, plant communities, soil, climate, pollution, hydrology, and wildlife in classroom, labs, and field trips. Offered: A.
ESRM 210 Introductory Soils (4) NW Zabowski
Physical, chemical, and biological properties that affect distribution and use patterns of this important ecosystem component. Includes soil morphology and genesis, plant nutrition and nutrient cycling, soil water, microbiology, and application of soil properties to environmental concerns. One Saturday field trip. Offered: A.
Instructor Course Description:
Darlene Zabowski
ESRM 235 Introduction to Environmental Economics (5) I&S/NW
Introduces environmental and natural resource economics. Discusses fundamental economic concepts, including markets and private property. Includes basic tools used in the economic assessment of environmental problems and applies these methods to key environmental issues. Offered: jointly with ECON 235/ENVIR 235.
ESRM 250 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems in Forest Resources (5) NW, QSR
Applications of GIS technology to forest science and management. Fundamentals of GIS systems: data sources, preprocessing, map analysis, output; remote sensing as a source of GIS data, image analysis, and classification. Emphasis on GIS as a source of management and technical information requests. Offered: AW.
Instructor Course Description:
Peter Schiess
ESRM 300 Principles of Sustainability (2) I&S/NW Bare
Overview of principles of sustainability, including discussion of current literature, presentation, and discussion with practitioners, and methods for balancing social, economic, and ecological consequences of proposed polices and actions. Students develop a plan to further their studies in natural resources and environmental sustainability. Prerequisite: ESRM 200; ESRM 201. Offered: W.
Instructor Course Description:
B Bruce Bare
ESRM 304 Environmental and Resource Assessment (5) I&S/NW, QSR
The processes of measuring, monitoring, and assessment; illustrated in diverse environmental and resource case studies. Explores the scientific method, hypothesis testing, sampling, and experimental designs, the role of questionnaires and polling techniqu4es, remote sensing techniques, and population measurements. Prerequisite: either Q SCI 381 or STAT 311, either of which may be taken concurrently. Offered: A.
Instructor Course Description:
Eric Turnblom
ESRM 310 Trees in Our Environment (5) NW
Explores tree form and function from perspectives of dendrology, ecology, and adaptation in wildland and urban environments. Lectures, projects, and field investigations introduce 50-60 trees of the Pacific Northwest. Acquire skills to increase knowledge of trees. Prerequisite: either BIOL 162 or BIOL 220. Offered: Sp.
ESRM 311 Soils and Land Use (3) NW Harrison
Intended for students concerned with environmental problems in the Puget Sound basin; also for those who intend to become professionally involved in land-planning decisions. Focus is on the significance of soils in understanding environmental problems and in promoting intelligent land-use decisions. Basic concepts of soil systems are presented, stressing those aspects important in making land-planning decisions. Offered: W.
Instructor Course Description:
Robert B. Harrison
ESRM 315 Natural Resource Issues: Old-Growth and Forest Management (5) I&S/NW Franklin
Biological and social elements of current conflicts, especially those associated with old-growth and its disposition. Ecology of Pacific Northwest forests and landscapes, history of forest practices, application of emerging science, proposed alternative practices and policies, including analysis of current proposal and its predecessors and successors. Open to majors and nonmajors. Offered: Sp.
ESRM 320 Marketing and Management from a Sustainability Perspective (5) I&S/NW Paun
Introduction to business concepts relating to marketing, human resource management, small businesses and entrepreneurship, and economics in the context of environmental resource management. Offered: A, S.
Instructor Course Description:
Dorothy A Paun
ESRM 321 Finance and Accounting from a Sustainability Perspective (5) I&S/NW Paun
Introduction to business concepts relating to finance, accounting, and international business in the context of environmental resource management. Offered: WS.
Instructor Course Description:
Dorothy A Paun
ESRM 323 Silviculture (5) NW Turnblom
Silviculture techniques, including nursery practices, clear-cutting, seed trees, shelterwood, selection cutting, site preparation, regeneration methods, thinning, fertilization, chemicals, and regional silviculture in the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Rocky Mountains, California, Pacific Northwest, and Alaska. Multiple-use field trips. Offered: Sp.
ESRM 325 Forest Bioresources (3) NW Doty
Explores current topics in forest bioresources with an emphasis on bioengery, remediation of pollutants, and carbon sequestration. Prerequisite: either BIOL 162 or BIOL 180. Offered: A.
Instructor Course Description:
Sharon L Doty
ESRM 326 Wildlife Habitat and Silviculture (3) NW
Principles of wildlife habitat in forest and range ecosystems. Silvicultural principles applicable to wildlife conservation and management. Prerequisite: either ESRM 302 or ESRM 303. Offered: Sp.
ESRM 328 Forestry-Fisheries Interactions (4) NW Schiess
Characteristics of forestry-fisheries interactions in terrestrial and aquatic landscapes. Effects of changes in landforms on forest and aquatic communities. River basin and watershed features. Forest stand dynamics, forest hydrology, fish and wildlife histories and behavior. Resource conflicts and resolution. Offered: jointly with FISH 328; even years; Sp.
ESRM 331 Landscape Plant Recognition (3) NW Reichard
Field recognition of important groups of woody landscape plants, emphasizing diversity at the genus and family levels. Cultivated plant nomenclature. Plant descriptive characters evident in the field with eye and hand lens. Hardiness and landscape applications. Recommended: either BIOL 117 or BOTANY 113. Offered: jointly with BIOL 331; SpS.
ESRM 350 Wildlife Biology and Conservation (5) NW Manuwal
Wildlife ecology and population biology, and interrelationships between wild animals and humans, including encouragement of wildlife population growth and productivity, control of pest populations, and preservation of endangered species with emphasis on forest environments and forest faunas. Open to nonmajors. Prerequisite: either BIOL 102, BIOL 162, BIOL 180, BIOL 202, BIOL 203, or BIOL 220, any of which may be taken concurrently. Offered: W.
Instructor Course Description:
David Manuwal
ESRM 351 Wildlife Research Techniques (8) NW Manuwal, West
Scientific approaches to the field study of wildlife populations and habitat, including species identification and natural history, experimental design, and report writing. Emphasis on direct experience with current field techniques used in the study of vertebrate populations and habitat. Prerequisite: either BIOL 162, BIOL 180, or ESRM 350; recommended Q SCI 381. Offered: Sp.
ESRM 362 Introduction to Restoration Ecology (5) I&S/NW Ewing
An introduction to ecological restoration of damaged ecosystems. Examines the philosophical base of restoration as well as the social, biological and political forces that impact the success of any restoration project. Includes lectures, readings, case studies and field trips. Offered: jointly with ENVIR 362; A.
ESRM 368 Natural Resource Measurements (4) NW Turnblom
Introduction to principles of measurement, basic field measurement skills, measurement of vegetation, including stand examination, timber cruising, size, weight, volume and biomass of trees, and stream flow. Laboratories include field exercises on sampling techniques for trees and lesser vegetation and linear regression modeling to predict quantities from basic measurements. Prerequisite: either IND E 315 or Q SCI 381; recommended ESRM 304. Offered: W.
ESRM 381 Management of Wildland Recreation and Amenities (3) NW Bradley
Introduction and overview of wildland recreation and amenities management. Agency history and objectives explored along with integration of recreation with other land uses. Water, forestry, wildlife, and wilderness resources for recreational uses discussed along with role of private enterprise in recreation and amenities. Topics of current and local interest. Offered: W.
ESRM 399 Undergraduate Internship (1-5, max. 15)
Internship experience with a public agency or private company, supervised and approved by a faculty member. Preparation of professional report reflecting on the experience is required. Credit/no credit only. Offered: AWSpS.
ESRM 400 Natural Resource Conflict Management (3) I&S/NW Ryan
Introduction to the causes, dynamics, and consequences of natural resource conflicts as well as the range of procedural interventions used to manage conflict. Specific cases of environmental conflict and alternative dispute resolution procedures are examined. Emphasis on developing skills to effectively analyze, manage, and resolve natural resource conflicts. Offered: W.
Instructor Course Description:
Clare Ryan
ESRM 401 Spring Comes to the Cascades (3) NW Hinckley
Examines the interaction between forests, environment and growth at three locations in the Cascades, from lowlands to alpine. Field trips and associate observations are linked to classroom or group project activities and are used to understand a number of ecological, physiological and meteorological concepts.
Instructor Course Description:
Thomas M Hinckley
ESRM 402 Curation and Education in Public Gardens (3) I&S/NW Wott
Techniques of curatorial practice relevant to living collections of plants, including documentation, policies, conservation, and display. Aspects of establishing and implementation of a public horticulture program including assessment, program tools and methods, and funding in a public environment. Offered: even years; A.
Instructor Course Description:
John A Wott
ESRM 403 Forest and Economic Development in the Developing World (4) NW Eastin
Examines the relationship between forests and economic development in tropical countries. Topics include the role of population growth, poverty, land tenure, and international trade on forest use as well as theories of economic development. Case examples of forest-based economic development in different countries and regions. Offered: A.
ESRM 404 Forest Science Inquiry for Teachers (5)
Inquiry-based scientific methods for K-12 instruction; asking how and why questions; stating answerable questions; forming hypothesis to answer questions; testing hypothesis by making observations, making measurements, and conducting experiments; displaying results. Writing curriculum plans to implement district and state requirements. Offered: S.
ESRM 409 Soil Ecology (5) NW Vogt
Soil organisms in forest and other ecosystems, decomposition, nutrient cycling. Nitrogen transformation, mycorrhizae, effects of forest management. Offered: A.
ESRM 410 Forest Soils and Site Productivity (5) NW Harrison
Considers unique properties and processes occurring in forest soils throughout the world with emphasis on soils of Pacific Northwest and aspects of forest soils that affect productivity. Two all-day Saturday field trips and one Saturday-Sunday field trip required. Recommended: ESRM 210. Offered: odd years; A.
ESRM 411 Plant Propagation: Principles, and Practice (3) NW Wott
Science and practice of plant propagation including sexual (seed) and asexual (cutting, layering, grafting) propagation. Includes discussion of physiological effects, methodology and laboratory exercises. Wide variety of plants covered. Intended for majors in urban horticulture and urban forestry and others interested in reproducing landscape plants. Recommended: 10 credits of introductory biology or botany, or equivalent. Offered: Sp.
Instructor Course Description:
John A Wott
ESRM 412 Native Plant Production (3) NW Reichard, Wott
Advanced plant propagation techniques, emphasizing native plants, propagation for restoration projects, and unique problems associated with providing appropriate plant material for restoration or conservation purposes. Emphasizes greenhouse and fieldwork, and includes lectures, field trips, and a class project. Recommended: ESRM 411, which may be taken concurrently. Offered: Sp.
Instructor Course Description:
Jonathan Bakker
ESRM 413 Soil Genesis and Classification (5) NW Zabowski
Soil formation, morphology, classification, and relationship to the environment. Labs and weekend field trips illustrate properties and processes of forest and grassland soils in Washington. Recommended: ESRM 210. Offered: even years; Sp.
ESRM 414 Forest Soil Fertility and Chemistry (3) NW Harrison
Tree growth depends, in part, on the interaction between chemical and biological activities within a given soil: the biological and chemical parameters that influence the growth; soil solution chemistry and surface reactions; reactions and processes that control essential plant nutrient levels and forms in soil solutions. Recommended: ESRM 210. Offered: even years; Sp.
ESRM 415 Biology, Ecology, and Management of Plant Invasions (5) NW Reichard
Explores how biological invasions are one of the most serious threats to the preservation of biodiversity worldwide. Explores the vectors which move plants and their pests, the biology and impacts of the invasive species, and management and policy approaches. Prerequisite: one of the following: BIOL 162, BIOL 220, BIOL 333, BIOL 471, BIOL 472, ESRM 401, ESRM 472, or ESRM 473. Offered: A, odd years.
ESRM 416 Field Survey of Wildland Soils (3) NW Harrison, Zabowski
Study of soils in remote sites about which little information is available. Focus is field trip in Cascade Mountains just north of Glacier Peak with prior study of hiking area, soil and ecosystem changes, and wilderness use. Offered: S.
Instructor Course Description:
Robert B. Harrison
ESRM 420 Wildland Fire Management (5) NW
Principles of wildland fire behavior, ecology, and management. Weather, fuels, and topography effects on fire behavior. Forest structure influence on historical and current fire ecology. Principles of firesafe forests. Management issues of fire control and use in wilderness, multiple-use forest, and the wildland-urban interface. Offered: A.
Instructor Course Description:
Ernesto Alvarado-Celestin
ESRM 423 International Trade, Marketing, and the Environment (3) I&S/NW Roos
Introduction to international trade, marketing, and environmental business. Concepts include plan writing, exporting and importing, carbon credits, green marketing, and how global exchange rates affect environmental assets such as forests.
Instructor Course Description:
Joseph A. Roos
ESRM 425 Ecosystem Management (5) NW Franklin
Scientific and social basis for ecological forestry. Forest practices to achieve integrated environmental and economic goals based upon material models of disturbance and stand development including alternative harvesting methods; adaptive management and monitoring; certification and global issues. Offered: A.
Instructor Course Description:
Jerry F. Franklin
ESRM 426 Wildland Hydrology (4) NW Bolton
Introduction to the hydrologic cycle and basic hydrologic methods as applied to wildlands. Effects of forest management activities on hydrologic processes. Offered: W.
Instructor Course Description:
Susan M Bolton
ESRM 427 Integrated Management of Forest Landscapes in a Changing World (3) Franklin
Examines objectives of 21st century forest management along a continuum from economic to ecologic and dominance of mixed objectives; development of integrated approaches to simultaneously achieving ecological and economic goals at large scales and in mixed ownerships; recognizing and dealing with uncertainties associated with social and environmental changes. Prerequisite: ESRM 425. Offered: Sp.
ESRM 428 Principles of Silviculture and Their Application (5) NW Ford
Focuses on the biology of major tree species in the PNW and their use in silviculture, stand development in plantation forest systems and its relationship to forest yield, the advantages and limitations of plantation silviculture relating to specific biotic, abiotic and economic conditions and management for objectives other than time yield. Prerequisite: ESRM 323. Offered: A.
ESRM 429 Water Center Seminar (1, max. 6) NW Steinemann
Weekly seminars covering water resources and watershed topics with lectures from scientists on and off campus. Credit/ no credit only. Offered: AWSp.
Instructor Course Description:
Anne Steinemann
Daniel S Ribeiro
ESRM 430 Aerial Photos/Remote Sensing Natural Resources (3) NW
Principles of photogrammetry, interpretation, and remote sensing; and their application to management of natural resources and wildlands. Uses for watersheds, forest resources, wildlife, point and nonpoint pollution, land-use planning, and outdoor recreation. Offered: Sp.
Instructor Course Description:
Ludmila M. Moskal
ESRM 435 Forest Entomology (3) NW Gara
Introduction to general entomology, characteristics, life histories, ecological relations, prevention, and control of forest insects. Offered: A.
Instructor Course Description:
Robert I Gara
ESRM 436 Laboratory in Forest Entomology (2) NW Gara
Introduction to the insect orders; identification of forest insects and their damage. One field trip to study insect problems required. Offered: A.
ESRM 441 Landscape Ecology (5) NW Franklin
Basic landscape ecology concepts, including patches, corridors, networks, spatial dynamics; island biogeographic principles; landscape analysis methods; landscape models. Applications of landscape ecology in resources management (e.g., cumulative effects, cutting, patterns, anadromous fisheries, management of wildlife populations, and open-space planning). Recommended: ESRM 326. Offered: W.
Instructor Course Description:
Joshua J Lawler
ESRM 444 Forest Ecosystems Protection: Insects and Diseases (5) Edmonds, Gara
Examines the effects of insects and diseases on wildland and managed forest ecosystems: defoliators, bark beetles, wood boring insects, abiotic and biotic diseases, insects and diseases in intensively managed forests, principles of insect and disease management. Prerequisite: either ESRM 301, 302 or 303 (can be taken concurrently). Offered: odd years: Sp.
ESRM 450 Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (5) NW Marzluff
Covers advanced principles of wildlife ecology such as habitat selection, population viability, and landscape ecology, and illustrates how they apply to wildlife conservation problems with terrestrial, aquatic, and marine wildlife. Students must share costs of field trips. Prerequisite: either ESC 350 or ESRM 350; either CFR 250 or ESRM 250; recommended: introductory statistics. Offered: W.
Instructor Course Description:
John M. Marzluff
ESRM 451 Urban Plant Protection (5) NW Gara
Working knowledge on insects and diseases of plants growing in the urban environment. Emphasis placed on pest and damage recognition, control methods, and integrated pest management systems. Offered: even years; Sp.
ESRM 452 Field Ornithology (3) NW Manuwal
Students learn field identification skills and are introduced to field methodologies through required indoor labs, field trips, and field exercises. Exercises include study of survey techniques, feeding ecology, and behavior. Students are required to share field trip costs. Prerequisite: either BIOL 102, BIOL 162, BIOL 180, BIOL 202, BIOL 203, or BIOL 220, any of which may be taken concurrently. Offered: odd years; A.
ESRM 455 Wildlife Seminar (1, max. 8) NW Manuwal, West
Discussion of current research and application in wildlife biology and conservation. Credit/no credit only. Offered: AWSp.
Instructor Course Description:
Stephen D West
ESRM 456 Biology and Conservation of Birds (3) NW Manuwal
Major principles of natural history, avian reproductive biology, population ecology, and national and international conservation strategies for both hunted and unhunted birds. Emphasis on western United States. Prerequisite: either BIOL 102, BIOL 162, BIOL 180, BIOL 202, BIOL 203, or BIOL 220, any of which may be taken concurrently. Offered: odd years; A.
ESRM 457 Fish and Wildlife Toxicology (3/5) NW
Overview of fish/wildlife toxicology: history of the field; regulations; methods used to assesses risks contaminants pose to fish/wildlife; classes of contaminants and their direct, sublethal and indirect effects; and contemporary threats of contaminants to fish/wildlife, their habitats and prey. Includes laboratory. Offered: jointly with FISH 455; W.
ESRM 458 Management of Endangered, Threatened, and Sensitive Species (5) NW Marzluff
Biological underpinnings and political realities of endangered species management, including: legal issues, recovery teams, citizen rights, extinction, rarity, proactive management, captive propagation, reintroduction, species endangered in the Pacific Northwest. Students revise endangered species recovery plans. Offered: A.
Instructor Course Description:
John M. Marzluff
ESRM 459 Wildlife Conservation in Northwest Ecosystems (3) NW Manuwal, West
Extended field course offers Wildlife Science students personal interactions with wildlife managers and wildlife populations in strategic public and private lands in the northwestern United States and southern Canada. Students will share costs of trip. Offered when there is sufficient student demand. Prerequisite: ESRM 350; may not be repeated. Offered: Sp.
Instructor Course Description:
John M. Marzluff
ESRM 460 Institutionalizing Sustainable Ecological Practices. (5) I&S/NW
Introduction to how sustainability and conservation are possible. Case studies of successful institutionalization of sustainable ecological functions, including curbside and biosolids recycling, ecological restoration, bioremediation, sustainable wood production, and product certification. Emphasis on individual student projects. Offered: jointly with ENVIR 460; Sp.
ESRM 461 Forest Management and Economics (5) I&S/NW Greulich
Presents important contemporary decision tools, especially how they re used by forest managers so they can interpret, critique and develop their basic applications in forestry. Topicw include optimization techniques, including linear and nonlinear programming, concepts in interest and time evaluation of alternatives, marginal cost analysis and computer spreadsheet assisted analysis. Prerequisite: Q SCI 381 or STAT 311; Q SCI 291 or MATH 124. Offered: W.
Instructor Course Description:
Francis E Greulich
ESRM 462 Restoration Ecology Capstone: Introduction (2) NW Ewing, Fridley
First of a three-course capstone sequence in restoration ecology. Students review and assess project plans and installations. Class meets with members of previous capstone classes to review their projects. Offered: jointly with ENVIR/TESC/BES 462. Offered: A.
Instructor Course Description:
James Fridley
Kern Ewing
ESRM 463 Restoration Ecology Capstone: Proposal and Plan (3) NW Ewing, Fridley
Student teams prepare proposals in response to requests for proposals (RFPs) from actual clients. Clients may be governments, non-profit organizations, and others. Upon acceptance of the proposal, teams prepare restoration plans. Prerequisite: ESRM 462. Offered: jointly with ENVIR/TESC/BES 463. Offered: W.
Instructor Course Description:
Kern Ewing
ESRM 464 Restoration Ecology Capstone: Field Site Restoration (5) NW Ewing, Fridley
Teams take a restoration plan developed in ESRM 463 and complete the installation. Team participation may include supervision of volunteers. Teams prepare management guidelines for the client and conduct a training class for their use. Prerequisite: ESRM 463. Offered: jointly with ENVIR/TESC/BES 464. Offered: Sp.
Instructor Course Description:
Kern Ewing
ESRM 465 Economics of Conservation (3) I&S/NW Perez-Garcia
Economic principles and their use in the analysis of contemporary conservation problems. Particular emphasis directed toward the conservation of forest resources in the Pacific Northwest and related policy issues. Offered: Sp.
Instructor Course Description:
John Perez-Garcia
ESRM 468 Forest Operations (5) Schiess
Examines forest land surveying, low volume road access planning, and timber harvesting concepts. Low volume road design principles and practical application of field road location. Overview of road drainage design, construction techniques and maintenance. Reviews basic harvest systems and setting design processes, including cost, production control, environmental and safety considerations. Prerequisite: ESRM 250; ESRM 323; ESRM 368. Offered: Sp.
ESRM 470 Natural Resource Policy and Planning (5) I&S/NW Bradley, Ryan
Introduction to and analysis of environmental policy-making processes, with a focus on forest and land policy and law. Use of policy models to examine the interaction of agencies, interest groups, Congress, and the courts in the legislative process. Policy implementation, evaluation, and change are also addressed. Offered: A
Instructor Course Description:
Clare Ryan
ESRM 471 Urban Forest Landscapes (5) NW Bradley
Comprehensive view of urban forest and urban forest landscapes. Includes close examination of factors that differentiate urban forest landscapes along the urban to wildland gradient. Compare legal, social, political, administrative, physical, and biological variations. Offered: Sp.
ESRM 472 Wetland Ecology and Management (5) NW Ewing
Wetland types and functions, global and North American distribution, wetland plant types, soil chemistry. The influence of stresses on wetland composition and form. Autecology of wetland plants; response to and detection of stresses. Impacts of urbanization; management techniques. Recommended: either BIOL 471, BIOL 472, BOTANY 354, or BOTANY 371. Offered: A.
Instructor Course Description:
Kern Ewing
ESRM 473 Ecosystem-Based Restoration Ecology (5) NW Ewing
Philosophy of restoration, structural components of ecosystem degradation, analysis of restoration projects and methods, and an ecosystem by ecosystem review of how systems are restored. An ecology courses that emphasizes applied scientific knowledge of ecosystems. Recommended: plant ecology, plant identification, horticulture, landscape ecology coursework. Offered: W.
Instructor Course Description:
Kern Ewing
ESRM 478 Plant Ecophysiology (5) NW Kim
Explores physiological mechanisms that underlie ecological observations, including how above- and below-ground microclimates develop and affect plant physiological processes. Discusses acclimation to environmental change along with species differences in physiological processes and plant's occupation of heterogeneous environments. Laboratories emphasize field measurement techniques. Prerequisite: either BIOL 102, BIOL 162, or BIOL 220. Offered: jointly with BIOL 424; W
Instructor Course Description:
Soo-Hyung Kim
ESRM 479 Restoration Design (5) I&S/NW Fridley
Covers the design process in ecosystem restoration demonstrated through examples of restoration necessitated by a number of extractive processes and other consumptive practices in human society. Examples include agriculture, forestry, grazing, wetland damage, water use, mining, recreation, urban activities, transportation and waste management. Offered: Sp.
ESRM 480 Landscape Plant Science and Sustainable Management (5) NW Kim
Principles and practices of plant management in urban and modified landscapes. Physiological basis for plant management and selection; site analysis and preparation; plant installation and aftercare; plant performance evaluation; long-term sustainable management and plant health care. Recommended: either ESRM 210 or ERSM 311; either BIOL 116 or BIOL 117. Offered: A.
Instructor Course Description:
Soo-Hyung Kim
ESRM 489 Foreign Study (1-5, max. 15)
Individual foreign study of topics for which there is not sufficient demand to warrant the organization of regular classes. Offered: AWSpS.
Instructor Course Description:
Thomas M Hinckley
ESRM 490 Special Topics (1-5, max. 15)
Individual tutorial study of topics for which there is not sufficient demand to warrant the organization of regular classes. Offered: AWSpS.
Instructor Course Description:
E David Ford
Jerry F. Franklin
Kern Ewing
Steven A. Trudell
Sergey S. Rabotyagov
Sharon L Doty
Sandor F. Toth
ESRM 494 Senior Thesis Proposal (5)
Selection of a thesis topic, literature review, and preparation of a formal senior thesis proposal. Students select a faculty advisor to assist them in the proposal writing process. Regular or Honors credit. Offered: AWSpS.
ESRM 495 Senior Project (5)
Individual study of an environmental science and resource management problem under direction of a faculty member. Requires a written project report. Generally taken in last year of residence. Offered: AWSpS.
ESRM 496 Senior Thesis (5)
Statistical analysis and presentation of research results and discussion of results in a thesis paper. Students work with faculty advisors to complete field or laboratory research and then prepare the senior thesis. Offered: AWSpS.
ESRM 499 Undergraduate Research (1-5, max. 15)
Individual research supervised by a faculty member. For advanced students desiring to extend their educational experience. Offered: AWSpS.
