Environmental sciences

The CPD Centre offers online courses in Environmental Conservation to enable environmental and ecological professionals to update their knowledge and skills in ecological survey techniques.

The courses are structured to be accessible and flexible for professionals in environmental consultancies, government departments, wildlife and conservation charities and ecology consultancy companies. The courses cover specific aspects of environmental conservation with particular emphasis on ecological survey techniques. The portfolio of courses is continually evolving and developing to reflect the needs of environmental conservation professionals.

An Introduction to the Science of Climate and Climate Change

This short online course provides an introduction to climate science and modelling and the current understanding of some of the issues surrounding the use of model projections of climate change. The course is a stand-alone, untutored learning experience that can be taken at the convenience of the user. For further information and details on how to register for the course please visit the climateeducation.net website.

Students may progress from this course to Constructing and applying high resolution climate scenarios, which is a 7-week tutored online course that launched in October 2012 (please see course description for details).

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Constructing and Applying High Resolution Climate Scenarios

The first run of this new course completed in January 2013. To register your interest in the course and receive information relating to any future run, please email reciprocate@conted.ox.ac.uk..

This course aims to build on the basics introduced in An Introduction to the Science of Climate and Climate Change , but its primary focus is on the use of regional climate models in particular, and how their output (or indeed that of global models and/or observations) can be analysed and prepared for use as inputs to impacts models of various kinds. All the reading material is embedded into the course, but students additionally have access to the University's electronic resources and online journals, which they are expected to use for some of the activities.

Constructing and applying high resolution climate scenarios is a 7-week tutored online course.

Content will look in particular at three steps: the step from global climate change information to the regional detail ('downscaling'), the step from regional and global climate change information to producing climate scenarios appropriate for input to impacts models, and the step from climate scenarios to impacts models, giving the eventual climate impacts information that we seek.

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Data Analysis in Ecology (with credit)

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Data Analysis in Ecology is a short, stand-alone training course that is taught entirely online. It can be taken from anywhere in the world and is relevant to an international audience. It will appeal to a variety of students and practitioners in conservation and management who want to improve their ability to display ecological data, and to use descriptive and inferential statistics to analyse their results from field surveys. The course introduces students to the use of the following software: QED statistics and R.
This course can be taken with academic credit (assignment of up to 2,000 words) or without academic credit. This page relates to taking the course WITH CREDIT. For information about taking this course without academic credit, please click here.

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Data Analysis in Ecology: Statistics for Ecologists and Field Biologists

This course can be taken with academic credit (assignment of up to 2,000 words) or without academic credit. This page relates to taking the course WITHOUT CREDIT. For information about taking this course with academic credit, please click here.

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Field Techniques for Surveying Birds

Field techniques for surveying birds is a short, stand-alone training course which is taught entirely online. It can be taken from anywhere in the world and is international in its use of case studies. It will appeal to a variety of students and practitioners in conservation and management who want to improve their ability to conduct surveys.

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Field Techniques for Surveying Fish & Amphibians

Field Techniques for surveying Fish and Amphibians is a short, stand-alone training course which is taught entirely online. It can be taken from anywhere in the world and is international in its use of case studies. It will appeal to a variety of students and practitioners in conservation and management who want to improve their ability to conduct surveys.

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Field Techniques for Surveying Invertebrates

Field techniques for surveying invertebrates is a short, stand-alone training course that is taught entirely online. It can be taken from anywhere in the world and is international in its use of case studies. It will appeal to a variety of students and practitioners in conservation and management who want to improve their ability to conduct invertebrate surveys.

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Field Techniques for Surveying Invertebrates (with credit)

This course can be taken with academic credit (assignment of up to 2,000 words) or without academic credit. This page relates to taking the course WITH CREDIT. For information about taking this course without academic credit, please click here.

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Field Techniques for Surveying Mammals & Reptiles

Field techniques for surveying mammals and reptiles is a short, stand-alone training course which is taught entirely online. It can be taken from anywhere in the world and is international in its use of case studies. It will appeal to a variety of students and practitioners in conservation and management who want to improve their ability to conduct surveys.

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Field Techniques for Surveying Vegetation

Field techniques for surveying vegetation is a short, stand-alone training course which is taught entirely online. It can be taken from anywhere in the world and is international in its use of case studies. It will appeal to a variety of students and practitioners in conservation and management who want to improve their ability to conduct vegetation surveys.

This course can be taken with academic credit (assignment of up to 2,000 words) or without academic credit. This page relates to taking the course WITHOUT CREDIT. If you would prefer to apply for the accredited course option, please click here.

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Field Techniques for Surveying Vegetation (with credit)

This course can be taken with academic credit (assignment of up to 2,000 words) or without academic credit. This page relates to taking the course WITH CREDIT. If you would prefer to apply for the non-accredited course option, please click here.

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