600-203 Environmental Measurement

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Students completing this subject should:

• understand the use of basic methods of sampling theory;

• be familiar with field procedures for surveying the physical environment, terrestrial fauna and flora, and freshwater and marine biota;

• be able to apply strategies for efficient and effective estimation;

• be able to design routine environmental monitoring and assessment programs;

• be able to make use of appropriate techniques to explore environmental data sets.

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Sampling theory for environmental problems, stratification, ratio and regression estimation, classification and ordination of environmental data, methods for dealing with spatial variation and autocorrelation, field monitoring and 'baseline' studies, efficient survey methods for terrestrial and aquatic environments, biotic and abiotic indices of water quality, univariate and multivariate indicators.

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