Ecosystem Management and Conservation Specialization
This specialization gives students the knowledge and skills to become thoughtful stewards of the environment, to ensure that human and nonhuman species can coexist across landscapes.
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Program Courses
Core
Two courses required.Course 1
Required for all Ecosystem students.| Course | Fall 2022 | Spring 2023 | Fall 2023 | Spring 2024 |
| ENV 602 Ecosystems and Landscapes |
Bradford Tu,Th 1:00-2:20 |
Bradford |
Course 2
Choose one of these three courses.| Course | Fall 2022 | Spring 2023 | Fall 2023 | Spring 2024 |
| ENV 642 Environmental Justice/Climate Justice |
Torres |
Torres |
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| ENV 764 Sociology of Sacred Values: Modernity, Ecology, and Policy |
Farrell W 8:00-10:50 |
Farrell | ||
| ENV 770 Western Lands and Communities Field Clinic: Research to Practice |
Farrell |
Elective
Four required courses. Students must take at least one course from each of the following four bins:Social Science Principles
| Course | Fall 2022 | Spring 2023 | Fall 2023 | Spring 2024 |
| ENV 573 Urban Ecology for Local and Regional Decision Making |
Grove W 1:00-3:50 |
Grove | ||
| ENV 605 Environmental Risk Communication |
Schwarz Th 2:30-5:20 |
Schwarz | ||
| ENV 618 Anthropology of Smallholder Agriculture in Developing Countries |
Carpenter W 9:00-11:50 |
Carpenter | ||
| ENV 631 Poverty, Environment and Inequality |
Taylor |
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| ENV 685 Engaging Landholders and Communities in Conserving and Restoring Tropical Forest Landscapes |
Tentative |
Tentative |
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| ENV 742 Fundamentals of Working with People |
Tentative |
Tentative |
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| ENV 746 Conservation Ethics |
Schmitz |
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| ENV 759 Power, Knowledge, and the Environment: Social Science |
Dove M 1:00-3:50 |
Dove | ||
| ENV 839 Power in Conservation |
Carpenter |
Carpenter |
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| ENV 951 Strategic Environmental Communication |
Leiserowitz |
Leiserowitz |
Natural Science Principles
| Course | Fall 2022 | Spring 2023 | Fall 2023 | Spring 2024 |
| ENV 646 Foundations of Agriculture and Environment |
Wood Tu 2:30-5:20 |
Wood | ||
| ENV 659 The Practice of Silviculture: Principles in Applied Forest Ecology (Friday field trips) |
Ashton |
Tentative |
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| ENV 713 Coastal Ecosystems |
Anisfeld | |||
| ENV 723 Wetlands Ecology, Conservation & Management |
Freidenburg M,W 1:00-2:15 |
Freidenburg | ||
| ENV 744 Conservation Science and Landscape Planning |
Schmitz |
Schmitz |
Quantitative Analysis
| Course | Fall 2022 | Spring 2023 | Fall 2023 | Spring 2024 |
| ENV 603 Environmental Data Visualization & Communication |
Queenborough |
Queenborough |
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| ENV 617 Real World Environmental Data Science |
Grewal |
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| ENV 753 Regression Modeling of Ecological and Environmental Data |
Gregoire M,W 10:30-11:50 |
Gregoire | ||
| ENV 755 Modeling Geographic Space |
Tomlin |
Tomlin |
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| ENV 756 Modeling Geographic Objects |
Tomlin Th 1:00-3:50 |
Tomlin | ||
| ENV 762 Applied Math for Environmental Studies (AMES):Foundations for Measuring and Modeling Environmental and Socio-environmental Systems |
Fenichel |
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| ENV 781 Applied Spatial Statistics |
Gregoire |
Gregoire |
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| ENV 795 Nature as Capital: Merging Ecological and Economic Models |
Fenichel |
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| ENV 804 Economics of Environmental & Natural Resource Management |
Mendelsohn M,W 10:30-11:20 |
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| ENV 834 Environmental Economics and Policy |
Conte |
Faculty |
Management and Policy
Learning Community
There is a corresponding “Learning Community” for each specialization, where anyone interested in the topic can find related news, spotlights, colleagues, and events.
Faculty Coordinator
Staff Manager
Michelle Downey
Program Director of Ucross High Plains Stewardship Initiative; Staff Manager for the Ecosystem Management and Conservation Specialization