Courses
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| Course: | CSS 330 - Soil Chemistry |
| Semester: | Spring of every year |
| Credits: | Total Credits: 2 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 2 Lab Hours: 2 2(2-2) |
| Prerequisite: | CSS 210 and CEM 143 |
| Description: | Organic and inorganic soil processes including mineralogy, adsorption, desorption, and precipitation. Chemistry of soil organic matter and inorganic soil components. |
| Effective Dates: | FALL 2006 - Open |
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| Course: | CSS 360 - Soil Biology |
| Semester: | Fall of every year |
| Credits: | Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 2 Lab Hours: 2 3(2-2) |
| Prerequisite: | CSS 210 |
| Recommended Background: | CSS 330 |
| Description: | Overview of organismal diversity and biological soil processes. Role of macroorganisms and microorganisms in soil processing, including nutrient cycling. |
| Effective Dates: | SPRING 2006 - Open |
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| Course: | GEO 306 - Environmental Geomorphology |
| Semester: | Fall of even years, Spring of every year |
| Credits: | Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) |
| Prerequisite: | (CSS 210 or GEO 203 or GEO 206 or GEO 330 or GEO 333 or GEO 259 or GLG 201 or GLG 304 or ISP 203A or ISS 310) or completion of Tier I writing requirement |
| Description: | Relationships of running water, weathering, gravity, ice, waves, wind, and biota (including humans) to terrain and soils. Evolution of landscapes. Classical and modern interpretations. |
| Interdepartmental With: | Geological Sciences |
| Administered By: | Geography |
| Effective Dates: | FALL 2005 - SUMMER 2007 |
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| Course: | MMG 426 - Biogeochemistry |
| Semester: | Summer of every year |
| Credits: | Total Credits: 3 3(0-0) |
| Recommended Background: | (BS 110 or LBS 144 or LBS 148H or BS 111 or LBS 145 or LBS 149H) and (CEM 143 or CEM 251) |
| Description: | Integration of the principles of ecology, microbiology, geochemistry, and environmental chemistry. Societal applications of research in aquatic and terrestrial habitats. |
| Semester Alias: | MPH 426 |
| Interdepartmental With: | Crop and Soil Sciences, Geological Sciences, Zoology |
| Administered By: | Microbiology and Molecular Genetics |
| Effective Dates: | FALL 2001 - Open |
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| Course: | MMG 425 - Microbial Ecology |
| Semester: | Spring of every year |
| Credits: | Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) |
| Recommended Background: | MMG 301 |
| Description: | Microbial population and community interactions. Microbial activities in natural systems, including associations with plants or animals. |
| Semester Alias: | MPH 425 |
| Interdepartmental With: | Crop and Soil Sciences |
| Administered By: | Microbiology and Molecular Genetics |
| Effective Dates: | FALL 2001 - Open |
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| Course: | ZOL 447 - Practical Applications of Landscape Ecology |
| Semester: | Fall of every year |
| Credits: | Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 4 3(1-4) |
| Prerequisite: | BS 110 |
| Recommended Background: | CSE 101 and ZOL 355 |
| Description: | Concepts and techniques of landscape ecology. Issues and resource management. Simulation of changes in landscape metrics, disturbance, and connectivity and metapopulations. |
| Effective Dates: | FALL 2005 - Open |
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| Course: | MMG 801 - Integrative Microbial Biology |
| Semester: | Fall of every year |
| Credits: | Total Credits: 4 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 4 4(4-0) |
| Not open to students with credit in: | MMG 821 or MMG 829 or MMG 841 or MMG 827 |
| Description: | Structural, metabolic, phylogenetic, and genomic diversity of microbes and microbial communities. Microbial ecology, evolution, and behavior. Regulation of gene expression. Microbial interactions with other microbes, animals, or plants |
| Effective Dates: | FALL 2004 - Open |
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| Course: | ESP 801 - Physical, Chemical, and Biological Processes of the Environment |
| Semester: | Fall of every year |
| Credits: | Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0) |
| Recommended Background: | Bachelor's or Master's in appropriate discipline for specialization. |
| Restrictions: | Approval of college. |
| Description: | Interdisciplinary concepts in the natural sciences related to environmental problems. Ecology and human health. |
| Semester Alias: | SSC 801 |
| Effective Dates: | SPRING 2004 - Open |
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| Course: | GLG 821 - Aqueous Geochemistry |
| Semester: | Fall of odd years |
| Credits: | Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 2 Lab Hours: 2 3(2-2) |
| Recommended Background: | CE 481 or CEM 383 or CSS 455 or FW 472 or GLG 421 or GLG 422 |
| Restrictions: | Open only to graduate students. |
| Description: | Controls on the chemical and isotopic nature of water (fresh, marine, brine) and its solutes. Data acquisition and synthesis. Chemical modeling and evolution of water masses. |
| Effective Dates: | FALL 1996 - Open |
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| Course: | CSS 825 - Clay Mineralogy and Soils Genesis |
| Semester: | Spring of even years |
| Credits: | Total Credits: 4 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 2 4(3-2) |
| Restrictions: | Open only to graduate students in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources or College of Engineering or College of Natural Science. |
| Description: | Mineral structures. X-ray diffraction, pedogenic processes, and mineral transformations and stability. |
| Interdepartmental With: | Geological Sciences |
| Administered By: | Crop and Soil Sciences |
| Effective Dates: | FALL 1992 - Open |
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| Course: | CSS 850 - Soil Chemistry |
| Semester: | Spring of every year |
| Credits: | Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 3 3(3-3) |
| Restrictions: | Open only to graduate students in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources or College of Engineering or College of Natural Science. |
| Description: | Ion activities, ionic exchange and equilibrium reactions. Soil pH, macro- and micronutrients, saline soils and availability of nutrients to plants. |
| Effective Dates: | FALL 1992 - Open |
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| Course: | CSS 865 - Organic Chemistry of Soils |
| Semester: | Spring of odd years |
| Credits: | Total Credits: 2 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 2 2(2-0) |
| Description: | Chemistry of natural and anthropogenic organic substances in soils. |
| Effective Dates: | SPRING 1993 - Open |
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| Course: | FOR 824 - Forest Soils |
| Semester: | Fall of even years |
| Credits: | Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 2 Lab Hours: 2 3(2-2) |
| Description: | Evaluation and inventory of forest soils and landscape ecosystems. Physical, biological, and chemical processes. Nutrient cycling, diagnosis, and fertilization. Variability, geography, and landscape ecology. |
| Effective Dates: | FALL 2004 - Open |
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| Course: | ZOL 824 - Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry |
| Semester: | Spring of every year |
| Credits: | Total Credits: 2 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 2 2(1-2) |
| Recommended Background: | CEM 142 or CEM 152 or CEM 182H or LBS 171 |
| Description: | Principles of stable isotope chemistry applied to biogeochemical problems: climate change, ecology, contaminants, oceanography, limnology, and paleobiology. |
| Interdepartmental With: | Geological Sciences |
| Administered By: | Zoology |
| Effective Dates: | SPRING 2006 - Open |
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| Course: | ZOL 897 - Ecosystem Ecology |
| Semester: | Spring of every year |
| Credits: | Total Credits: 4 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 4 4(4-0) |
| Description: | Structure and function of natural ecosystems. Succession, food web analysis, energy flow, nutrient cycling, and effects of human activities on ecosystems. Global environmental change. Ecosystem management and restoration. |
| Interdepartmental With: | Fisheries and Wildlife, Plant Biology |
| Administered By: | Zoology |
| Effective Dates: | FALL 2002 - Open |
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