Week 1: Course Introduction / Syllabus / Project Guidelines / Resources / Q&A 

Tuesday: Lecture: Introduction to R, Rstudio, and R Markdown

Thursday: Introduction to Basic Stats in R

Week 2 

Tuesday: History of landscape ecology

Thursday: Introduction to Basic Stats and Graphics in R

Week 3

Tuesday: Scale and Scaling

Thursday: Introduction to projections

Week 4

Tuesday: Scale and Hierarchy Theory

Thursday: Introduction to raster & vector data

Week 5

Tuesday: Quantifying Scale and Pattern

Thursday: Introduction to Interpolation

Week 6

Tuesday: Causes of Spatial Patterns - Disturbance

Thursday: Introduction to LandTrender

Week 7

Tuesday: Causes of Spatial Patterns -Land Use Change

Thursday: Introduction to Land Use Change Modeling

Week 8

Tuesday: Pattern and Process

Thursday: Introduction to Mantel Path Analysis

Week 9

Tuesday: Fall Break 

Thursday: Project Presentation-Proposal

Week 10

Tuesday: Landscape Fragmentation

Thursday: Introduction to FRAGSTATS in R

Week 11

Tuesday: Landscape Resilience/ Sustainability

Thursday: Introduction to Species Distribution Modeling

Week 12

Tuesday: Emerging areas: Urban Landscape Ecology and Conflict Ecology

Thursday: Landscape Ecology Review: Q and A

Week 13: Project Days

Week 14

Tuesday: Project Presentation - Final

Thursday: Thanksgiving Break

Week 15-16: Project Days

Final Project Due on 12/12 before 9:30 AM