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Subject: Online trainings through the Center for Wildlife Studies

Enrollment for spring term courses is open now!  Take advantage of early bird discounts and save $75 per class.  Work at your own pace, with or without instructor support, with options to receive academic and/or continuing education credits.  We offer classes in a huge range of subjects taught by expert practioners, including:

R bootcamp for ecologists and wildlife biologists

Research design

Wildlife capture and chemical immobilization 

Introduction to and Advanced occupancy modeling

Capture-Mark-Recapture

Distance sampling

Camera trapping for research and monitoring

Working with conservation canines

- Drone applications in Ecology and Pilot Preparation

Introduction to U.S. wildlife policy

Plant ecophysiology

- Spatial analysis in QGIS

- Introduction to remote sensing

Open standards for the practice of conservation

Microplastic pollution and ecotoxicology

And many others!  See the full list of courses, scholarship opportunities, and other services from CWS.

All courses in this program are graduate level and are designed for full-time researchers, graduate students, environmental consultants, conservation specialists, and resource management practitioners. Taught by leading experts in their fields, participants will learn job-ready skills, including how to properly design field studies and controlled experiments, organize and visualize data, and become proficient in a variety of statistical analyses and modeling techniques to answer important environmental questions. 

CWS also offers a professional certificate in Applied Quantitative Ecology.  To learn more and apply, please visit: https://www.centerforwildlifestudies.org/applied-quantitative-ecology
 
CENTER FOR WILDLIFE STUDIES is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose global mission is to provide accessible environmental education and promote wildlife conservation through science. 


Jeff Stetz, PhD <jstetz@centerforwildlifestudies.org>
Friday, January 17, 2025