Multiple Stressors and Environmental Modelling

Graduate

A course aimed at developing an understanding of the nature of interactive, multiple stressors on large watersheds and lakes. Stressors considered will include chemical contaminants, nutrient enrichment, species invasions, climate change, population harvesting and land use changes. Students will model and gain appreciation for how single and interactive stressors affect large lakes and their watersheds, and how confounding issues can be isolated and explored. Students are expected to prepare and participate in critiques of the published literature, and contribute an original essay that explores these issues. (Required of all GLIER PhD. students) (2 hours per week) (3.0 credit course).