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

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Electrofishing brown and rainbow trout in Spruce Creek in central Pennsylvania

Admission Requirements and Procedures - Prospective students are encouraged to contact Unit personnel directly regarding graduate research opportunities. Unit staff are graduate faculty members in the School of Forest Resources and the Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Ecology. Consult the Graduate Degree Programs section of the School of Forest Resources website or the IGDP Ecology website (see links to the right) for complete details about each program and application procedures.

Financial Support - Graduate students associated with the Unit are typically supported by external funds in the form of grants or research contracts. Fully supported graduate students receive a monthly stipend, tuition waiver, and health insurance.

Courses Taught

Analysis of Animal Location Data (Duane Diefenbach 2008)
Classic Ecology (Duane Diefenbach 2008)
Estimation of Fish and Wildlife Population Parameters (Duane Diefenbach 2007)
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Training Offered

An Introduction to R (Tyler Wagner August 2008)
An introduction to the use of distance sampling to estimate the abundance of grassland songbirds. (Duane Diefenbach April 2004)
Modeling survival using radio telemetry and nest monitoring data (Duane Diefenbach April 2009)