This course offers an introduction to geology including minerals and rocks, plate tectonics, structural geology, and an introduction to geomorphology and surface processes covering river, glacier, and marine environments. This course includes a lab component.
Collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data is integral to natural resource science and management. This course is an introduction to the statistical concepts used in the field, including both graphical and numerical analysis. The course will cover experimental design/data collection, presentation of scientific results, descriptive statistics, and parametric and non-parametric tests. Topics covered include uses and misuses of statistics, methods of sampling, probability theory and distributions, data collection, measures of average and variation, sampling distributions of means and proportions, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, one-way and two-way analysis of variance, correlation, simple and multiple linear regression, and multiple methods of population estimation.