Graduate/Professional Training: Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation Front Royal, Virginia, USA
Visit our website (http://SMConservation.gmu.edu) or email us at [email protected] for more details about each course, course costs, and credits earned. The Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation, a partnership between George Mason University and the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI), is proud to announce their upcoming course schedule for 2016, and we're excited to be offering a number of new courses. All courses are currently either 1- or 2-week intensive residential courses hosted in our sustainably-built Academic Center on the grounds of SCBI in Front Royal Virginia. All courses offer continuing education credits (CEUs) and some can be taken for graduate credit as well. See our upcoming offerings below and check out our website for more course details and pricing. Limited scholarships are available for eligible applicants. Note that our lodging and meal plan pricing has recently been greatly reduced. Upcoming Courses: * Statistics for Ecology and Conservation Biology (February 29 - March 11, 2016) * Practical Zoo Nutrition Management (April 11-15, 2016) - new! * Species Monitoring and Conservation: Terrestrial Mammals (May 9-20, 2016) * Essentials of Open Source GIS (May 23-27, 2016) * Camera Trapping Study Design and Data Analysis for Occupancy and Density Estimation in Latin America (June 20-29, 2016) - new! * Estimating Animal Abundance and Occupancy (August 15-26, 2016) * Spatial Ecology, Geospatial Analysis, and Remote Sensing for Conservation (October 3-14, 2016)
