ENV 577 Climate Change

Prerequisite: Concurrent enrollment in or successful completion of all ENV core courses, ENV 501, ENV 502, ENV 503, ENV 505 and ENV 507, and at least one 1-credit ENV course, or permission of instructor.  Integrates several core areas in the field of environmental biology and applies them to current issues in global climate change. Students will apply principles of adaptation, ecology, pollution biology, statistics, and resource management to current developments in the field. Topics include recent climate-change data, vulnerability, adaptation, mitigation, and methodological approaches.