THIS IS AN ARCHIVE OF COURSE MATERIALS FROM 2023. AS WE PROGRESS THROUGH THE COURSE IN REAL TIME MATERIALS WILL BE REMOVED FROM THE ARCHIVE.

Instructor: Dr. Elie Gurarie, Illick 206

Office hours: Thursday 3:30-4:30 or by appointment,

Co-instructors:

• Chloe Beaupré | Monday 12-1pm, Illick 244
• Sydney Opel | Monday 1-2pm, Illick 244

Locations and Times:

• Lecture: Illick 5; Tue-Thu 2:00-3:20
• Recitation Sections:
  • Tues, 3:30-4:25 - Baker 310
  • Tues, 5:00-5:55 - Baker 314
  • Wed, 3:45-4:40 - Baker 314
  • Thurs, 8:00-8:55 - Baker 314

• Course Materials
  • Class basics
• Lectures
  • Unit I. Basics and history: What do animals mean to us?
  • Unit II. Estimating Abundances: How many animals are there?
  • Unit III. Habitat: Where are they? And why?
    • Examples of habitat analysis
  • Unit IV. Population Ecology: What is happening to how many there are?
  • Unit V. Wildlife “Management” and its Dicontents
• R/Computer labs
• Archive