Cooperative Research Units
Education, Research And Technical Assistance For Managing Our Natural Resources

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North Carolina Education Activities

A field crew trains with King Rail expert prior to field season.

North Carolina Unit scientists offer educational instruction in multiple forms. They instruct university graduate-level courses in their topical areas of expertise; they advise graduate students in their thesis and dissertation research; and they conduct and organize professional workshops and symposia on special topics.

Courses Taught

Conservation Design for Manatee in Puerto Rico This is a participatory research course, which means that (1) we do not know the answer to the questions being posed and (2) we will work together to design and carry out research to answer the question. The assignment for this course is: To document and deliver the science to inform a federal ruling regarding the establishment of manatee protection area(s) in Puerto Rico (*link to federal article*) (Jaime Collazo, Ashton Drew 2010)
Climate Change and Conservation (Jaime Collazo, Alexa McKerrow, 2009)
Topics in Species-Habitat Modeling (Seminar), Fall 2008 (Jaime Collazo 2008)
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Training Offered

Shorebird Ecology and Management. CLM2119, National Conservation Training Center. Workshop offered at Merritt Island NWR, October 24-28, 2011. (Jaime Collazo, James Lyons October 2011)
Sampling Elusive Wildlife Species: Accounting for Detection Probability, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia. (Ted Simons July 2011)
MOCC On-the-water portion, two students. (Joseph Hightower February 2010)
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