SUR 6395 | Topics in GIS
This course introduces GIS knowledge, software skills, and applications as topics to graduate students from different disciplines who have no or limited previous exposure...
FOR 6934 | Environment & Society
The purpose of this course will be to provide a broad overview of environmental and natural resource sociology, focusing on the prevailing theories and...
FOR 6934 | Communicating Natural Resource Science in Public
Introduces the principles behind effective science communication with natural resource users and the public. We cover the basics of identifying audiences and making your...
FOR 5435 | Forest Resources Information Systems
Nearly every topic imaginable associated with natural resource management has some spatial or geographic context. This course aims to develop spatial thinking through the...
FOR 6934 | Science Communication & Public Education
This course will provide an introduction to science communication, environmental education, and public outreach. The course will focus on strategic message framing and how...
FOR 6934 | Visualization in the Era of Big Ecological Data
This course will equip students with knowledge and skills to work effectively with big (ecological) data, with a specific focus on data visualization as...
FAS 6238 | Environmental Fish Physiology
This course will cover advanced topics on the physiology of fishes, their implications, and applications. We will examine features both common and distinctive, and...
FAS 5901 | Scientific Thinking in Ecology
This course examines general philosophical foundations of science, the nature of scientific disputes, and the relevance of these to ecology. Assigned readings, class discussions...
FOR 6934 | Issues in Southeastern Forest Health
This online course is designed to expose students to invasive and native forest and tree health issues and their management in the southeastern U.S....
FAS 6408 | Aquaculture II
Aquaculture II will build upon the foundations of the Aquaculture I course (FAS 5015). Students will be exposed to more advanced concepts including aquaculture...
FNR 6668 | Natural Resources in a Changing Climate
Our collective focus has been on protecting natural resources as they are, restoring them to what they were, or using them based on past...
FOR 6934 | Conservation Behavior for Practitioners
Conservation behavior is becoming an increasingly important concept as natural resource managers, development officers, educators, politicians, regulators, and business leaders consider what it takes...
FAS 6932 | Biology of Fishes
This 3-hour on-line graduate course is a survey of the diversity of fishes, including their anatomy, taxonomy, ecology, and conservation. Evolutionary trends are stressed,...
FOR 6155 | Forest Ecosystem Resilience
What causes forests to change from one ecosystem type to another? What are the processes, both external and internal to a forest that resist...
FOR 6934 | Introduction to Programming with R
This is an online course that will help students to gain a basic understanding of scientific programming. The course will be taught using R...
FOR 6933 | Professional Development Seminar
This course is designed to provide students with the skills needed to gain post-graduate school jobs in which they will excel and enjoy, and...
FOR 6665 | Landscape Planning for Ecotourism
Discussion of the history of nature-based recreation, the principles behind ecotourism, examples of international ecotourism offerings, and procedures for integrating ecotourism into a management...
FOR 6628 | Community Forest Management
This course weighs the evidence to date of how well communities conserve their forests, and examines how researchers and practitioners (including graduate students) have...
FOR 6543 | Valuation of Natural Resources
Extension of microeconomic principles to problems in forest production, supply behavior, forest valuation, and multiple-use of forest lands. Credits: 3 online version There are...
FOR 6345C | Plant Water Relation Methods
This two credit course will focus on instruments and techniques used to quantify water balance and status in plants in the field. Emphasis will...
FOR 6340 | Physiology of Forest Trees
Growth and development of woody perennial plants with emphasis on understanding how environmental factors affect their physiology. Credits: 3 Offered in even years. online...
FOR 6215 | Fire Paradigms
A detailed study of the ecological aspects of fire and fire management techniques including assessment of prescribed burning plans, comparison of present day and...
FOR 6170 | Tropical Forest Ecology
Climatic influences, forest types, natural forest and plantation management, policies, practices, and conservation. Credits: 3 face-to-face version There are no required lab or field...
FOR 6164 | Silviculture
Promotes understanding of principles governing establishment, treatment, and control of forest stands; regeneration systems; intermediate cuttings; intensive cultural practices; land use ethics; and management...
FOR 6156 | Simulation Analysis of Forest Ecosystems
Concepts of the ecosystem, the role of models for understanding ecosystem dynamics, disturbance regimes and stability theory, nutrient cycles and ecosystem energetics. Credits: 3...
FOR 6151 | Forest Ecosystem Health
Forest Ecosystem Health is an integrated course dedicated to the study of forest health and how it relates to ecological restoration. Credits: 3 online...
FOR 6005 | Conservation Behavior
Methods for changing behavior in various groups to improve environmental sustainability. Credits: 3 Offered even years. face-to-face and online version There are no labs...
FOR 5625 | Forest Water Resource Management
Forest managment practices in relation to hydrologic responses and water quality considerations. Credits: 3 not available This course includes required labs and/or field trips.
FOR 5161 | Forest Productivity & Health
Silviculture, disease management, and genetic improvement. Stand development and composition, growth limiting factors, epidemiology, choice of species and provenance, and tree breeding. Credits: 3...
FOR 5157 | Ecosystem Restoration Principles & Practice
History, structure, importance, ecology, restoration and management techniques, ownership patterns and policy implications. Credits: 3 online version There are no labs or field trips...
FOR 4854 | Agroforestry
Concepts and principles of agroforestry, including its complexity and diversity, improved agroforestry techniques in temperate and tropical zones, recent research problems and methodologies of...
FOR 5626 | Forest Economics & Management
A detailed study of stand and forest growth and development, planning principles, financial analysis, forest valuation, optimization within various constrained frameworks, analysis of forest...
FOR 5159 | Ecology & Restoration of Longleaf Pine Ecosystems
History, structure, importance, ecology, restoration and management techniques, ownership patterns and policy implications. Credits: 3 Prerequisites: ecology course online version There are no labs...
FNR 6628 | Watershed Restoration & Management
This course addresses science and policy of watersherd management, focusing on 1) biophysical factors, 2) socioeconomic drivers, and 3), the legal/policy context. Credits: 3...
FNR 6061 | Conflict & Collaboration in Natural Resources
This course centers on understanding, managing, and resolving natural resource conflicts, which are understood as disagreements and disputes over control, use, or access to...
FNR 6564 | Ecohydrology
This course will introduce students to the field of ecohydrology via targeted examples drawn from model systems, including arid land plant-water relations, Everglades and...
FNR 6560 | Intro to Bayesian Statistics in Life Sciences
The aim of the course is to introduce life scientists to Bayesian statistics. We will explore basic ideas regarding integration through simulation (Monte Carlo...
FNR 5625 | Managing Public Lands & Waters
Concepts, principles and practices of managing public lands and waters of the United States, and, to a lesser extent, other countries; the natural resources...
FNR 5608 | Research Planning
Required for all new MS students. History and philosophy of science, scientific method, development of a research proposal. Research facilities and programs are presented....
FAS 6933 | Seminar
This course provides Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (FAS) graduate students a forum for honing scientific presentation skills. Credits: 1; can be taken for a...
FAS 6940 | Supervised Teaching
Credits earned in fulfillment of assisted teaching duties for fisheries and aquatic sciences. Credits: 1-5; max 5 total not applicable Teaching assistant duties may...
FOR 6940 | Supervised Teaching
Credits earned in fulfillment of assisted teaching duties for forestry and natural resources. Credits: 1-5; max 5 total not applicable Teaching assistant duties may...
GIS 6103 | GIS Programming & Customization
This hands-on graduate course gives an introduction on how to expand the functional capabilities of a Geographic Information System (GIS) through programming Credits: 3...
GIS 6116 | Geographic Information Systems Analysis
Analytical tools such as software grid modules, database query, map algebra, and distance operations; analytical operations such as database query, derivative mapping, and process...
SUR 5365 | Digital Mapping
Methods of digital representation of maps, coordinate development, digitizing, stereocompilation, scanning, remote sensing, hardware and software systems, file conversion, integration into GIS, and attribute...
SUR 5385 | Remote Sensing Applications
Review of remote sensing systems, image classification methods, mapping applications, integration of remotely sensed data into GIS, application of data for variety of spatial...
SUR 5386 | Image Processing for Remote Sensing
Analysis of remote sensing imagery with natural resource applications; image formation and radiometric/atmospheric correction models; hyperspectral image formation, dimensionality reduction, and classification; machine learning...
SUR 5525 | Least-Squares Adjusted Computations
Implementation of least squares solutions for survey-mapping and GIS applications, time and storage optimization; error analysis, initial approximation generation; robust estimations; and computer programming....
SUR 6502C | Foundations of UAS Mapping
Students who do not have a geomatics background, such as an introductory surveying class or field experience, are required to get the permission of...
SUR 6536 | Geodesy & Geodetic Positioning
Introduction to geometric and physical geodesy, ellipsoids, geodetic lines, computation or position, gravity and coordinate systems. Course capstone project required. Credits: 3 online version...
SUR 6940C | Practicum in UAS Mapping
This three-credit course provides students hands-on experience with flight planning and effective deployment of small unmanned aerial systems (UASs), and the subsequent processing and...
FOR 7980 | Doctoral Research
Research credits for doctoral study work undertaken after successfully completing qualifying exams, supervised by major advisor/committee chair. Credits: 1-15 Prerequisites: doctoral candidate status (post-qualifying...
FAS 7980 | Doctoral Research
Research credits for doctoral study work undertaken after successfully completing qualifying exams, supervised by major advisor/committee chair. Credits: 1-15 Prerequisites: doctoral candidate status (post-qualifying...
FAS 7979 | Advanced Research
Research credits for doctoral study work undertaken prior to or during qualifying exams, supervised by major advisor/committee chair. Credits: 1-15 Grading scheme: S/U online...
FOR 7979 | Advanced Research
Research credits for doctoral study work undertaken prior to or during qualifying exams, supervised by major advisor/committee chair. Credits: 1-15 Grading scheme: S/U online...
FOR 6971 | Master’s Research
Research credits for Master's thesis work, supervised by major advisor/committee chair. Credits: 1-15 Grading scheme: S/U online version Research typically involves lab and/or field...
FAS 6971 | Master’s Research
Research credits for Master's thesis work, supervised by major advisor/committee chair. Credits: 1-15 Grading scheme: S/U online version Research typically involves lab and/or field...
SUR 6905 | Special Problems in Geomatics
Individual study of a selected topic in Geomatics as contracted with the instructor at the start of the term. Credits: variable (1-3). Can be...
FOR 6910 | Supervised Research
Individual study of a selected topic in forest resources and conservation as contracted with the instructor at the start of the term. Typically used...
FOR 6905 | Research Problems (Individual Study)
Individual study of a selected topic in forest resources and conservation as contracted with the instructor at the start of the term. Credits: variable...
SUR 6934 | Analytical Photogrammetry
This course relates the principles of precise measurement and proper data reduction through measurements of photographs followed by calculations to determine spatial information. Credits:...
SUR 6934 | Marine Geomatics
The goal of this course is to provide the students with an understanding of hydrographic surveying and mapping as it pertains to the practice...
FOR 6934 | Partisanship in Natural Resources
This course will examine the psychological and social mechanisms that cause people to divide on environmental topics. You will learn the aspects of human...
FOR 6934 | Ecology & Restoration of Invaded Ecosystems
Invasion ecology, with emphasis on plant invasions in managed forests and natural ecosystems. Management tools and techniques are discussed, along with the restoration of...
FOR 6934 | Data Wrangling & Reproducible Research
This course aims to improve the implementation and execution of reproducible research and analyses in the field of natural resources. Students will be introduced...
FOR 6934 | Bark & Ambrosia Beetles
A comprehensive review of bark and ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae and Platypodinae), including global diversity, Florida’s fauna, classification, field and lab diagnostics, morphology,...
FOR 6154 | Analysis of Forest Ecosystems
Concepts of the ecosystem, the role of models for understanding ecosystem dynamics, disturbance regimes and stability theory, nutrient cycles and ecosystem energetics. Credits: 3...
FOR 6934 | Agroforestry in the Southeastern US
This is a graduate, web-based, three-credit, distance education course. The target audience includes graduate students enrolled in the SFRC MS non-thesis concentration in Ecological...
FOR 6934 | Human & Organizational Management in Natural Resources
This course encompasses Human Resources (HR) Management and Organizational Behavioral (OB) information and practices common in public and private sector, domestic (U.S.) businesses, with...
FAS 6932 | Intro to Applied Fisheries Genetics
This course is designed to provide an introduction and overview of current genetic and genomic topics in the context of fisheries management and conservation....
FAS 6932 | Marine Protected Areas
Discusses the advantages and disadvantages of marine protected areas (MPA), including the scientific basis and the traditional approach to fisheries management. Covers the ecological...
FAS 6932 | Scientific Diver
The Scientific Diver Certification is recognition status of a permit to dive at the University while it is current and for the purpose intended....
FAS 6932 | Fisheries Ecology & Management
This course is an advanced graduate course on fisheries stock assessment and management. This course focuses on modern stock assessment models and why these...
FAS 6932 | Ecological Statistics & Design
This course gives students experience in real-world sampling design and data analyses. At its core, this is a statistics class and much of the...
FAS 6932 | Invasion Ecology of Aquatic Animals
This course will provide a comprehensive overview of the field of invasion ecology and will emphasize aspects related to aquatic animals. Through lectures, readings,...
FAS 6932 | Fish & Water Quality
This course discusses International, Federal, and State of Florida water quality standards and how each standard affects fish. Students learn the facts behind the...
FAS 6932 | Fish & Limnology
This course provides students with a basic understanding of fishery and limnological science. Knowledge will be gained through classroom lectures and hands-on experience with...
FAS 6165 | Fish & Crustacean Nutrition
This course will acquaint students with basic principles of nutrition and formulation of diets for fish and crustaceans in aquaculture. Lectures will cover digestive...
FAS 6932 | UF in the UK: Coastal Biology, Natural History & Culture
The coast of the United Kingdom has a remarkable history that intertwines its unique cultural and biological characteristics. This course explores coastal and nearshore...
FAS 6932 | Spatial Sciences for Marine Environmental Characterization Copy
An introduction to the geospatial technologies, concepts and methods required to analyze and manage geographic data used in a context of marine habitat mapping....
FAS 6932 | Reproductive Dynamics of Fish and Fisheries
This course covers reproductive biology and ecology of fishes in relation to fisheries and fisheries management, including: reproductive modes and cycles, gonad development and...
FAS 6932 | Global Change in Freshwater Ecosystems
This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of human impacts in freshwater ecosystems and challenges and approaches for conserving freshwater diversity...
FAS 6932 | Freshwater Ecology
This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of key concepts in freshwater ecology. Material will focus on physical and chemical aspects...
FAS 6910 | Supervised Research
Firsthand, authentic research in fisheries and aquatic sciences under the supervision of a faculty member. Projects may involve inquiry, design, investigation, scholarship, discovery or...
FAS 6905 | Individual Study
Individual study of a selected topic in fisheries and aquatic sciences as contracted with the instructor at the start of the term. Credits: variable...
FAS 6705 | Fisheries and Aquaculture: An Economics Perspective
This course introduces students to important issues in fisheries and aquaculture management from an economic perspective, exploring the incentives of various stakeholders in utilizing...
FAS 6416 | Spatial Ecology & Modeling of Fish Populations
Theoretical models, methods and data analyses to track, explain and utilize the spatial behavior of fish populations. Credits: 2 Prerequisites: A graduate course in...
FAS 6356 | Fisheries Enhancement
Fisheries enhancements are a set of fisheries management approaches involving the release of cultured organisms to enhance or restore fisheries. The course aims to...
FAS 6355C | Fisheries Management
Integrating scientific, social, political, and legal factors in fisheries management. Credits: 3 face-to-face and online versions There are no labs or field trips associated...
FAS 6339C | Advanced Quantitative Fisheries Assessment
Covers topics related to fisheries stock assessment and management. This course focuses on modern assessment techniques and their associated challenges. Credits: 4 Prerequisites: STA...
FAS 6337C | Fish Population Dynamics
Analyzing fish populations for management purposes. Methods for estimating population parameters such as growth, recruitment, and mortality. Using population parameters and computer models to...
FAS 6273 | Trophic Ecology of Fishes
Tropic ecology of fishes, including: food habit analyses, diet breadth, diet overlap, prey selectivity, prey digestion, gut evacuation, consumption, food-web linkages, foraging connections through...
FAS 6256 | Fish & Aquatic Invertebrate Histology
Covers basic interpretation of the fixed tissue microanatomy and physiology of fish, bivalves, and corals, and introduces common histopathologic (disease) findings. Credits: 3 Offered...
FAS 6272 | Marine Ecological Processes
This course is intended to provide students with a broad overview of ecological processes operating in estuarine, near shore coastal and open ocean systems....
FAS 6176 | Algae Biology & Ecology
Covers the biology and ecology of aquatic algae, including evolution, classification, structure, photosynthesis, growth, and eproduction. Emphasis on the ecological role of algae in...
FAS 6154 | Marine Adaptations: Environmental Physiology
This course will focus on the responses of species and habitats to stressors encountered in the marine environment. We will first examine the physiological...
FAS 5407 | Biology & Ecology of Fisheries & Aquaculture Invertebrates
Invertebrate animals (e.g. mollusks, crustaceans, echinoderms) comprise about 99% of described species. Many are important fisheries and some are increasingly important in aquaculture. Invertebrates...
FAS 5335C | Applied Fisheries Statistics
This course covers mathematical distributions, transforming data, outliers, significant figures, number of samples needed, effect of sampler size, sample design, mark-recapture and depletion methods...
FAS 5276C | Field Ecology of Aquatic Organisms
Historically, this field-oriented course is intended to introduce students to the diverse aquatic habitats found in Florida, their associated flora and fauna, and serve...
FAS 5203C | Biology of Fishes
Course will focus on the general biology of fishes, with emphasis on trends in their evolution, integrative and sensory biology, physiology, feeding ecology, reproduction,...
FAS 5255C | Diseases of Warmwater Fish
Provides instruction in the methodology of diagnosis, treatment and management of parasitic, bacterial, viral, nutritional, and environmental diseases of warmwater food fish and aquarium...
FAS 5015 | Aquaculture I
Provides an overview of the field of aquaculture, including water quality, production systems, nutrition, spawning, and the common fish and invertebrate groups cultured in...
STA 6093 | Intro to Applied Statistics for Agricultural and Life Sciences
This course familiarizes students with the foundations of statistical analysis, teaches students basic statistical analysis and data management skills in the programing language R,...