Pre-Session 2025
NRES 498 - Special Topics, Section 102, Class #19661
3 credit hour
When: January 8 - 17, 2025
Time: 9:00 - 11:50 am and 1:00 - 3:00 pm
Where: 141 North Hardin Hall
Topics
- Fate and Transport of Organic Contaminants in Soil and Water
- Hands-on Solute Modeling using Groundwater Vistas 9 (ModFlow)
- Chemistry used in remediation techniques
Structure
This condensed course will be roughly one-third lecture and two-thirds hands-on with students using various computer software and models. The hands-on assignments will engage students in learning course objectives by using ModFlow, which is the most widely used groundwater flow model in the world.
Instructor
- Steve Comfort (402-472-1502)
NRES 417 - Agroforestry Systems in Sustainable Agriculture
3 credit hour
When: Spring Pre-session
Where: Online
Course Description
Do you love nature? Are you interested in knowing the benefits of integrating forests and trees on agricultural lands? Learn about the environmental, social, and economic attributes and opportunities associated with incorporating trees into agricultural and other land use decisions ( aka Agroforestry).
Instructor
Spring 2025
NRES 330 - Environmental Health
3 credit hour
When: Spring Semester
Time: M,W 12:00pm-1:15pm
Satifies ACE 8
Course Description
This course will provide students with a comprehensive understanding of how environmental exposures to physical, chemical and biological hazards influence human health. We aim to instill a permanent awareness of environmental influences on health. This course will engage students interested in public health to environmental health and students of the natural environment to the public health aspects of environmental issues.
Using a One-Health approach, the course will offer students basic knowledge in the core concepts of toxicology, exposure and risk, vulnerable populations and the interrelationship between human health and ecosystem health.
Cross-listed NUTR 330
Instructor
NRES 421/821 - Field Techniques in Remote Sensing
3 credit hour
Lecture: Tuesday/Thursday 2:00 – 3:15 pm**
Lab: 3:30 – 5:30 pm**
Course Description
The course introduces field remote sensing (proximal remote sensing). The focus is on field sensors and instrumentation, calibration and validation (e.g. ground truthing) of satellite and aircraft (including UAV) missions. Students will gain experience using instruments, both in the laboratory and in the field, with a particular focus on spectroscopy for vegetation studies with applications ranging from ecology and plant physiology to phenotyping and precision agriculture. We will explore systematic approaches to data collection using sensors with high spectral resolution, and subsequent data analyses. Additional emphasis will be placed on research methods and procedures.
** - Certain field activities or independent projects may occasionally require additional time
Prerequisite
NRES 418/818 or permission of instructor. Contact Dr. Gamon (jgamon@unl.edu) for course code
Instructor
NRES 425 - Wildlife Health
3 credit hour
When: Spring 2025
Time: 12:30 - 1:45 pm
Where: 145 VBS
Crosslisting: VBMS 425
Description
Are you interested in the health of free-ranging and captive wildlife populations?
Join us this spring to explore wildlife health and well-being through the lens of One Health (interconnected human, animal, plant, and ecosystem health)!
We'll dive in topics including:
- Wildlife diseases at the human-animalenvironment interface in Nebraska and beyond
- Noninfectious health threats such as habitat loss, light/sound pollution, and plastic pollution
- Wildlife trafficking/trade
- Strategies to assess and improve wildlife health
Prerequistite Courses
LIFE 120 and 121
Instructor
- Liz VanWormer (liz.vanwormer@unl.edu)
NRES 443/843 - Global Change and Ecosystems
Exploring our Mysterious Planet
3 credit hour
When: T/R 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Where: Hardin Hall
Course Description
- Can you describe the Earth system processes that support life?
- How are they changing due to human activity?
- What are the implications for life as we know it?
- What can we do about it?
Instructor
NRES 478 – Regional Climatology
3 credit hour
When: Spring Semester
Time: Monday, Wednesday, Friday 11:00-11:50 am
Course Description
For students who want to understand the characteristics of the regional climates of the world and appreciate how these climates have influenced human society and natural ecosystems in unique ways.
- Outcome one: explain the characteristics of regional climates around the world.
- Outcome two: identify how regional variations in climate affect human and natural systems.
- Outcome three: understand how extreme events, natural disasters, climate change, and historical climate have influenced ecosystems, economic sectors and the perspectives of the people in these regions.
Prerequisite:
NRES/METR 370 or instructor approval
Instructor
NRES 498/898 - Digital image processing and analysis in remote sensing
3 credit hours
When: Spring 2025
Time: Tuesday/Thursday 9:30 – 10:45 am
Course Description
See the Unseen through the hyperspectral ad thermal lens from the air!
- Understand the acquisition and organization of remote sensing imagery
- Gain knowledge about principles of image processing and information extraction
- Provide hands-on experience in hyperspectral/thermal image analysis