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Course Description

The Water Quality Assessment, Analysis and Interpretation online course is a signature course delivered by the Canadian Rivers Institute’s Training and Professional Development programme. This course advances participants’ abilities to design water quality research and monitoring programs and analyze water quality conditions and trends. 

Course Outline

This online course was developed to introduce tools for water quality data visualization and statistical analysis. It provides a background on statistical analysis approaches and the design of water quality monitoring programmes as well as hands-on experience working with real data to analyse for effects, trends, etc. in the open-source software R and RStudio.

Topics Covered Include:

  • Summary statistics and graphs

  • Data distributions and transformations

  • Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)

  • Regression analysis

  • Trend analysis and Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA)

  • Principal Component Analysis (PCA)

Learner Outcomes

Course Objectives

  • Introduce tools for water quality data visualization and analysis (R and R Studio; open source statistical software

  • Provide a foundational understanding of statistical analysis as it applies to water quality data

  • Run through hands-on activities with real data to analyse for effects, trends, etc.

Learning Outcomes

  • Formulate key questions and hypotheses

  • Determine the best analytical method for answering the question

  • Determine the best graphical method for presenting the data

  • Analyse and present the data through the use of R

  • Learn how to present figures and statistical results in reports

 

The Canadian Rivers Institute is using the services of the University of New Brunswick’s College of Extended Learning to increase the quality and efficiency of program registration and delivery of this CRI Training and Professional Development program's signature course. For enquiries, please email unbcricourses@unb.ca

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Section Title
Water Quality Assessment & Interpretation
Type
self-paced
Dates
Start Now, you have 240 days to complete this course once enrolled.
Delivery Options
Course Fee(s)
Price non-credit $500.00
Drop Request Deadline
TBD
Transfer Request Deadline
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