{"id":67,"date":"2019-07-15T21:29:07","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T04:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/?page_id=67"},"modified":"2025-08-28T14:52:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T21:52:03","slug":"courses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/courses\/","title":{"rendered":"Courses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"pdesc\"><strong>GEOS 102: Our Changing Environment: Climate and Ecosystems. <\/strong>Energy and water in the Earth-Atmosphere system, global climates and climate change, ecosystem properties and processes, human impacts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GEOS 306: Paleoecology: Lessons from Ancient Earth<\/strong> (New Course, 2022-23). Paleoecology of terrestrial ecosystems, particularly during the Quaternary, application of historical context to inform contemporary Anthropocene policy and management dilemmas, and including a foundation in relevant ecosystem and ecological concepts.<\/p>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"hfeed content span6\">\n<div id=\"post-9198\" class=\"hentry profile_cct publish post-1 odd author-cheung\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div>\n<div id=\"tab-id-1\" class=\"profile-cct-shell profile-cct-shell-tabs\">\n<div class=\"tab-content\">\n<div id=\"tabs-9198-4\" class=\"tab-pane active\">\n<div id=\"tabbed-4-shell\" class=\"profile-cct-shell\">\n<div class=\"clone_teaching field-item full\">\n<div class=\"field-shell field-shell-clone_teaching \">\n<div class=\"field\" data-count=\"0\">\n<p><strong>GEOS 307: Biogeography and Global Change. <\/strong>Biogeographic concepts in understanding responses in ecosystems to environmental change at global, regional, and local scales. Conservation issues such as the loss of biodiversity and endangered species.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GEOS 309: Geographical Sciences Field Course. <\/strong>Field sampling, instrumentation, surveying, mapping techniques, and data analysis; mandatory multi-day field camp in May-June at the UBC Geology Field Station in Oliver, BC. Special fees and liability insurance are required. &#8211; Promo here: <a href=\"https:\/\/geog.ubc.ca\/news\/join-us-this-summer-for-adventures-with-geos-309-field-camp\/\">https:\/\/geog.ubc.ca\/news\/join-us-this-summer-for-adventures-with-geos-309-field-camp\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>GEOG 319: Environmental Impact Assessment. <\/strong>The principles, implementation, and role of environmental impact assessment in environmental management, in Canada and internationally.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GEOG 374: Statistics in Geography. <\/strong>Introduction to statistical techniques and their application to geographical problems.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>For updated course offerings <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geog.ubc.ca\/persons\/nina-hewitt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">See Here (under Teaching)<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-excerpt\">&nbsp; GEOS 102: Our Changing Environment: Climate and Ecosystems. Energy and water in the Earth-Atmosphere system, global climates and climate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50391,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-67","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4785,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67\/revisions\/4785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alpineplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}