This course is aimed at graduate students and advanced undergraduates who wish to explore additional topics in quantitative methods applicable to forest resources assessment and modeling.
Readings are from the current scientific literature.
Detailed data analysis projects are assigned for each of the toics presented. All readings on a topic should be completed before we meet so that a dialogue between instructor and students is possible. Readings for those two weeks will be provided in due course. There will be one assignment related to this topic. Each student will be assigned one week in weeks 7 - 10 for which he must choose a lecture topic, find appropriate background reading materials, write and present lectures, develop a short homework assignment for the other students to complete, and grade the completed assignments.