The Ecological Systems program uses quantitative methods to
understand how ecological systems of humanity and nature operate and influence
each other, and presents opportunities to learn designs for their interface and
unification. The scope of the program includes small ecological systems,
regional systems, national questions, planetary cycles, and theoretical
properties common to all environmental systems.
Students may engage in the following research areas and
certificate programs that allow for clustering of course work around a theme:
- Systems ecology and modeling systems of humanity and nature
- Energy Analysis
- Ecological engineering (certificate)
- Environmental policy and management (certificate)
- Wetlands studies (certificate)
- Aquatic/estuarine ecology
The program's research is organized within two research
centers: the H.T. Odum Center for Wetlands (http://www.cfw.ufl.edu),
founded in 1973, and the Center for Environmental Policy (http://cep.ufl.edu,
started in 1990.
