ENV4300 - Environmental Design and Data Analysis for Biologists
General Unit Information
Designed
to provide environmental science students with the quantitative skills
necessary for designing monitoring programs and experiments. Taught as
an intensive 2-week block in the mid-year break (June-July). Morning
sessions will comprise lecture and discussion material. Afternoon
sessions will be practicals based on computer-analysis of real data
sets using the latest software. Topics covered include environmental
decision criteria, sampling design, experimental design and power
analysis, linear models, before-after-control-impact designs,
intervention analysis, ordination and classification.
Objectives
On completion of this unit, students will be able to:
- design and implement cost-effective and rigorous environmental monitoring programs and experiments
- analyse quantitative information collected as part of an environmental research program
- critically evaluate published data analyses in the environmental literature
- appreciate how poor designs can result in environmental and economic costs and inappropriate environmental decisions, and
- understand the links between designing environmental monitoring and assessment programs and the importance of reliability and defensibility of information in environmental research and management.
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