Summer 2024 A Term | 5 Credits | NSc | Online | Synchronous, with Asynchronous Options | M T W 11:30-1:40 pm

https://myplan.uw.edu/course/#/courses/ESRM210

An introduction to the world of soils and the plants that depend on them. Explore the fundamentals of soil classification, formation, morphology, physics, biology, and management as well as how those characteristics drive plant establishment and survival.

Contact Xingyue Zhang for more information.

Summer A-term 2024 | NSc, RSN | 5.0 Credits | In-person 

MW 9:10 am – 12:20 pm, F 9:10 – 4 pm 

https://myplan.uw.edu/course/#/courses/ESRM304

Environmental & Resource Assessment is an introduction to some of the multidisciplinary methods used to assess the environment or a variety of resources found in an ecosystem or landscape. It will cover a variety of topics from the natural resource management field, each taking the form of its own module. 

We will spend time sampling native wildlife, exploring mature forests, tromping through creeks, and learning some of the many ways we observe, analyze, manage, protect, and care for the natural world.  You will learn to navigate wild landscapes, hug lots of big trees, search the woods and streams for wildlife, and use equipment that natural resource manager employ to conduct scientific studies.   

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Contact Instructor Robert Swan for more information.

Summer 2024 A-Term | 5 Credits | SSc / NSc
T Th 12 - 4:30 pm | Online, Synchronous with options for fieldwork 

https://myplan.uw.edu/course/#/courses/ESRM479

This restoration design course weaves traditional ecological and community knowledge perspectives with science based case studies to guide students in developing nature-based restoration solutions for climate mitigation, adaptation and resilience. Students will gain experience in ecosystem restoration design through a series of team-based weekly design problems exploring a variety of ecosystems and communities within the City of Seattle and the greater Puget Sound/Salish Sea ecoregion. Emphasis will be placed on using tribally led and community based projects to create a framework for implementing biocultural restoration in a variety of contexts. 

Students will use these models to solve real-world restoration challenges exploring a wide range of disturbance impacts and will develop design solutions for a diversity of topics including urbanization, food sovereignty, and coastal marine ecology (blue carbon systems). Students will gain experience addressing current challenges in climate adaptation and will be provided with opportunities to participate in climate mitigation projects focused on supporting biocultural resilience. This course considers diverse perspectives, including opposing points of view and marginalized voices while connecting learning with theory and experience. Students will examine issues through presentations with guest speakers aimed to support students' critical inquiry into the cultural basis for restoration (why we restore) and visions for implementation (how we restore). This class will be synchronous online with additional field learning opportunities. 

Contact Cynthia Updegrave for more information.