Biological and Environmental Sciences

Ecology and Ecosystem Sciences

Courses

All students are strongly recommended to take the following coursework. The student’s committee may require additional courses as appropriate.

Core courses

BES 550                     Advanced Ecology
BIO 500                     Advanced Science Ethics
BES 600                     Graduate Seminar
BES 581/582             Biological Sciences Colloquium

Other suggested courses

AFS 415 Fishery Science
AFS 416 Laboratory in Fishery Science
AFS 433 Research Diving Methods
AFS 516 Early Life History of Aquatic Resource Animals
AFS 532 Fisheries Stock Assessment
AFS 560 Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Science and Management
AFS/PSY/STA 532 Experimental Design
BES 551 Ecosystem Science and Sustainability
BIO 418 Ecology of Marine Plants
BIO 441 Env. Physiology of Animals
BIO 455 Marine Ecology
BIO 457 Marine Ecology Laboratory
BIO 467 Animal Behavior
BIO 501 Advanced Scientific Communication
BIO/NRS 517 Herpetology
BIO 524 Methods in Plant Ecology
BIO 541 Comp. Physiol. of Marine Animals
BIO/ENT 544 Insect Ecology
BIO/NRS 551 Seminar in Marine Ecology
BIO 560 Seminar in Plant Ecology
BIO/NRS 563 Biology and Ecology of Fishes
BIO 564 Elasmobranch Biology
BIO 571 Natural Selection
BIO/GEO 572 Advanced Evolutionary Biology
BIO 580 Community Ecology
BIO/NRS 585 Salt Marsh Ecology
BIO 675 Advanced Ecology Seminar
ENT 519 Insect Biological Control
ENT 550 Insect Taxonomy & Systematics
ENT 555 Insect Pest Management
ENT 561 Aquatic Entomology
MAF 461 Coastal Zone Management
MAF 515 Marine Pollution Policy
MAF/NRS 527 Marine Protected Areas: An Interdisciplinary Analysis
MAF 582 Coastal Ecosystem Governance
MAF 595 Environment and Development Economics
NRS 406 Wetland Wildlife Management
NRS 407 Endangered Species Conservation
NRS 410 Fundamentals of GIS
NRS 415 Remote Sensing of the Environment
NRS 423 Wetland Ecology
NRS 501 Foundations of Restoration Ecology

NRS 503 Wildlife Biometrics Field Investigations
NRS 505 Biology and Mgt of Migratory Birds
NRS 509 Concepts of GIS and Applications in Environmental Science
NRS 516 Remote Sensing in Natural Resources Mapping
NRS 518 Ecohydrology
NRS/EEC 520 Quantitative Methods in Natural Resource Research
NRS 522 Advanced GIS Analysis of Environmental Data
NRS 524 Appl. of Adv. Spatial Analysis
NRS 525 Wetland Field Investigations
NRS 526 Microbial Ecology of Soils
NRS 532 Conservation Biology and Resource Economics
NRS 533 Landscape Pattern and Change
NRS 534 Ecology of Fragmented Landscapes
NRS 538 Physiological Ecology of Wild Terrestrial Vertebrates
NRS 551 Seminar in Marine Ecology
NRS 555 Applied Coastal Ecology
NRS 568 Recent Advances in Natural Resources Science
NRS 582 Soil Ecology and Biochemistry
OCG 420 Deep-Sea Biology
OCG 561 Biological Oceanography
OCG 576 Marine Microbial Ecology
OCG 580 Introduction to Marine Pollution
OCG 664 Phytoplankton Ecology
OCG 668 Productivity of Ocean Margins
OCG 669 Marine Fish Ecology & Production
OCG 670 Fish Population Dynamics
OCG 673 Fisheries Oceanography
PHL 452 Philosophy of Science
STA 409 Statistical Methods in Research I
STA 412 Methods in Research II
STA 501 Analysis of Variance and Variance Components
STA 502 Applied Regression
STA 515 Spatial Data Analysis
STA 517 Small N Designs
STA 520 Fundamentals of Sampling
STA 536 Applied Longitudinal Analysis
STA 541 Multivariate Statistical Methods
STA 542 Categorical Data Analysis
STA 545 Bayesian Statistics
STA 550 Ecological Statistics
STA 584 Pattern Recognition

EES Specialization Group Coordinator, Professor

Department of Natural Resources Science

401.874.7531
srmcwilliams@uri.edu

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