ENV 578 Climate Change Capstone

Prerequisites: Concurrent enrollment or successful completion of 30 ENV credits, including all core courses: ENV 501, ENV 502, ENV 503, ENV 505 and ENV 507 and at least one 1-credit ENV course, or permission of the instructor. The final programmatic requirement for ENV students in the Non-Research Track, Capstone Option; requires successful completion of a comprehensive final exam. This course integrates the core areas of environmental biology as they relate to global climate change. Students will apply principles of adaptation, ecology, pollution biology, statistics, and resource management to climate-change data, vulnerability, adaptation, mitigation, and methodological approaches.