Intro To Ecoinformatics

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Intro to ecoinformatics (winter 2005/ 2006)

• Audience: undergraduate students in biology/ecology/zoology
• Objective: This is a conceptual course is designed to provide individuals with the fundamentals of ecoinformatics
• Methods: 16 week course where students use canned data sets on ecological niche modeling to create potential scenarios of species migration; paths of invasive species due to climate change.
• Topics include: data and metadata; Standards and why they are necessary; the need for global repositories; Open-source vs. Proprietary; and Creating collaborative environments