Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. Enrollment is restricted to students with graduate standing or those with one course in statistics and permission of instructor. Develop quantitative skills for the visualization, manipulation, analysis, and communication of environmental "big data." This course focuses on spatial environmental data analysis, interpretation, and communication, using real-time data from the Rice Rivers Center and the R statistical analysis environment.

Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. Prerequisite: STAT/BIOS 543. Theoretical and empirical analyses of how demographic and evolutionary processes influence neutral and adaptive genetic variation within populations.