NRES 598

Fall 2026 All Classes

All Classes

Credit: 1 TO 4 hours.

Experimental course on a special topic in natural resources and environmental sciences.

May be repeated to a maximum of 12 hours.

NRES 598 class schedule data for fall 2026
Status CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
1
69078
Laboratory-Discussion
Lecture
DSE
DSE
2:00PM -3:50PM
12:30PM -1:20PM
R
R
M205 Turner Hall
W223 Turner Hall
Van Doren, B
Van Doren, B
Availability:
Open
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/24/26-12/09/26
Credit:
3 hours
Section Title:
Data Skills for Env. Sciences
Section Info:
DATA SKILLS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES: This course provides graduate students in the environmental sciences with essential skills in organizing, managing, cleaning, analyzing, and archiving quantitative data for reproducible and exploratory research. Through lectures, hands-on exercises, and an independent project, students will learn best practices for data storage, version control, and database management using tools like R, Python, SQL, and Git. They will develop workflows for data cleaning, transformation, visualization, and sharing, ensuring their research is transparent and transferrable. Special topics include handling large datasets, ethical considerations in data science, automated analysis workflows, and computing resources available at Illinois. By the end of the course, students will have completed a capstone project applying these skills to a quantitative dataset of their choice. Letter grading.
1
81452
Lecture
MSE
12:00PM -12:50PM
MWF
W203 Turner Hall
Yannarell, T
Availability:
Open
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/24/26-12/09/26
Credit:
3 hours
Section Title:
Multivariate Stats for Ecology
Section Info:
Overview of multivariate data analyses that can be commonly used in ecology and environmental sciences. Topics include ecologically relevant transformations of multivariate data, classification, ordination, statistical tests for difference between groups, and follow-up tests to identify influential variables. Emphasizes the practical and decision-making considerations behind each analysis, and also provides hands-on practice of data analysis and documentation using R. Restricted to graduate students. No prerequisites, but prior familiarity with statistical data analysis is helpful.
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