There is one all day Saturday lab to Point Reyes for the annual Tule Elk complete population census and to Domaine Chandon for vineyard sampling. The course is a junior level course and is required for all students majoring in resource management. The course will also provide a foundation in environmental and resource assessment for ecology, wildlife biology, geography, landscape architecture, engineering, range management and students in other related fields . An introduction to natural resource spatial data analysis.
Readings cover applications in various natural resource fields as well as general theory.
The course format is a combination of lectures by the instructor and class discussions in seminar format. There are accompanying computer-based assignments using Splus 2000 for Windows with the accompanying Spatial Statistics module. This course is designed to provide theoretical and practical applications of model building in forestry. Sample datasets are used for class projects that realistically portray relationships found in California forests. This course is taught in a combination of lecture and seminar format.