Biological and Environmental Sciences

Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems

Courses

  • BES 500 Advanced Science Ethics
  • BES 581 Biological Sciences Colloquium
  • BES 582 Biological Sciences Colloquium
  • BES 600 Graduate Seminar
  • AVS 504 Food Systems, Sustainability, and Health

Annual review forms are due at the end of each academic year for every BES student.

Suggested courses

  • AFS 425 Aquaculture and the Environment
  • AFS 425 Aquaculture and the Environment
  • AFS 432 Marine Finfish Aquaculture
  • AFS 481 Shellfish Aquaculture Laboratory
  • AFS 483 Salmonid Aquaculture
  • AFS 486 Fish Physiology
  • AFS 500 Diseases of Aquatic Organisms
  • AFS 503 Pathobiology
  • AFS 576 Seminar in Genetics of Aquatic Organisms
  • AFS 581 Current Topics in Molluscan Aquaculture
  • AFS 584 Advanced Aquaculture Systems
  • AFS 586 Fish Nutrition

  • APG 415 Migration in the Americas
  • APG 565 Seminar in Cultural Heritage

  • AVS 412 Animal Nutrition
  • AVS 420 Animal Breeding and Genetics
  • AVS 472 Physiology of Reproduction
  • AVS 473 Physiology of Reproduction Laboratory
  • AVS 503 Pathobiology
  • AVS 505 Advances in Animal Science

  • BIO 560 Seminar In Plant Ecology
  • BIO 563 Biology and Ecology of Fishes
  • BIO 586 Medical and Veterinary Entomology

  • EEC 440 Benefit-Cost Analysis
  • EEC 529 Game Theory
  • EEC 534 Economics of Natural Resources
  • EEC 535 Environmental Economics
  • EEC 595 Environment and Development Economics

  • ENT 511 Pesticides and the Environment
  • ENT 519 Insect Biological Control
  • ENT 520 Insect Morphology And Physiology
  • ENT 544 Insect Ecology
  • ENT 555 Insect Pest Management
  • ENT 561 Aquatic Entomology
  • ENT 571 Insect Microbiology

  • LAR 434 Introduction to Environmental Law
  • LAR 443 Planting Design
  • LAR 444 Landscape Architecture Studio III: Sustainable Design

  • MAF 413 Peoples of the Sea
  • MAF 461 Coastal Zone Management
  • MAF 484 Environmental Analysis and Policy in Coastal Management
  • MAF 523 Fisheries Law and Management
  • NFS 431 Chemistry of Food and Nutraceuticals
  • NFS 434 Aquatic Food Quality and Processing
  • NFS 458 Nutrition Education
  • NFS 506 Nutrition in the Community
  • NFS 553 Nutrient Metabolism I
  • NFS 554 Nutrient Metabolism II

  • NRS 412 Soil-Water Chemistry
  • NRS 426 Soil Microbiology
  • NRS 450G Soils, Land Use and the Environment
  • NRS 452G Soil, Water, and Land Use Investigations
  • NRS 471 Soil Morphology and Mapping
  • NRS 509 Concepts of GIS and Remote Sensing in Environmental Science
  • NRS 516 Remote Sensing in Natural Resources Mapping
  • NRS 518 Ecohydrology
  • NRS 522 Advanced GIS Analysis Of Environmental Data
  • NRS 526 Microbial Ecology of Soils and Sediments
  • NRS 533 Landscape Pattern and Change
  • NRS 567 Soil Genesis and Classification

  • OCG 576 Marine Microbial Ecology
  • OCG 533 Graduate Writing In Marine and Environmental Sciences
  • OCG 669 Marine Fish Ecology and Production
  • OCG 670 Fish Population Dynamics
  • OCG 673 Fisheries Oceanography

  • PLS 415 Plant Plagues: Causes and Consequences
  • PLS 540 Diseases of Turf and Ornamentals
  • PLS 542 Advanced Turf Management
  • PLS 571 Plant Improvement

  • STA 409 Statistical Methods in Research I
  • STA 412 Statistical Methods in Research II
  • STA 501 Analysis of Variance and Variance Components
  • STA 502 Applied Regression Analysis
  • STA 532 Experimental Design
  • STA 550 Ecological Statistics

SAFS Specialization Group Coordinator, Professor

Fisheries, Animal and Veterinary Sciences

401.874.2951
kpetersson@uri.edu

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