Ecology Functional Block Courses
MS Students are required to take one course each from two of the blocks.
PhD Students are required to take one each from three of the blocks.
Block #1: Biophysical Ecology
CEE 6740 Environmental Quality Modeling/Surface Water Quality Modeling - - Neilson - Spring
GEO/ PSC/WATS 6680 Paleoclimatology - -Pederson - Spring, odd years
GEO/WATS 6150 Fluvial Geomorphology - - Schmidt - Fall
PSC 6130 Soil Genesis, Morphology, and Classification - - Boettinger - Fall
PSC 6500 Land-Atmosphere Interactions - - Hipps -Spring, odd years
PSC 6820 Environmental Biophysics - - Hipps -Spring, even years
WATS 6900 Fluvial Hydraulics & Ecohyrdraulics - - Wheaton - Spring
WILD/PSC 5350/6350 Wildland Soils - - Van Miegroet - Spring
Block #2: Organismic, Population, and Evolutionary Ecology
BIOL 6260 Behavioral Ecology - - Sullivan - random
BIOL 6240 (BIOL 6750/7750) The Physiological Ecology of Vertebrates - - French - Fall
BIOL 6380 Evolutionary Genetics - - Pfrender - Fall, even years
BIOL 6600 Comparative Animal Physiology - - French - Fall
WATS 6230/7230 Fish Ecology - - Budy - Spring, even years
WILD 6400 Ecology of Animal Populations - - Koons - Fall
WILD 6720/7720 Advanced Conservation Biology - - Beard - Spring, odd years
WILD 7200 Plant Physiological Ecology- - Ryel - Fall, odd years
WILD 7400 Plant Population Ecology - - Schupp - Fall, even years
Block #3: Community, Ecosystem, and Landscape Ecology
BIOL 6010 Biogeography - - White - Spring
BIOL/PSC/WILD 6200 Biogeochemistry of Terrestrial Ecosystems- - -Stark/ Van Miegroet - Fall,odd years
BIOL 6590 Animal Community Ecology - - Ernest - Spring, even years
ENVS 6400 Ecological Aspects of Wildland Recreation - - Monz, Spring
WATS 6310 Wetland Ecology and Management - - Kettenring, Spring
WATS/WILD 6700 Restoration Ecology - - Kettenring - Spring, even years
WATS 6820/7820 Stream Ecology - - Hawkins - Fall
WILD 6710/7710 Landscape Ecology - - Bissonette - Spring
WILD 6770 Plant Community Ecology - - Adler - Spring
WILD 6900 Invasion Ecology - - Beard - Spring
Block #4: Quantitative Ecology
BIOL/MATH 6230* Applied Math in Biology (J. Powell)
BIOL 6750* Introduction to Programming and Database Management for Biologists (E. White)
BIOL 6750* Advanced Programming and Database Management for Biologists (E. White)
STAT 5120 Categorical Data Analysis
STAT 5570/6570 Statistical Bioinformatics (J. Stevens)
STAT 5600 Applied Multivariate Statistics (D. Cutler)
STAT 6200 Analysis of Unbalanced Data and Complex Experimental Designs (D. Coster)
WATS 6920 Geographic Information Analysis (J. Wheaton)
WILD 6510* Topics in Spatial Ecology (T. Edwards)
*no current call number. Website will be updated as information becomes available.
*Abbreviations - Biology (BIOL), Geology (GEOL), Plant Soils and Climate (PSC), Watershed Sciences (WATS), Wildland Resources (WILD)