6AE121 Wildlife Research
- Course code6AE121
- Number of credits7,5
- Teaching semester2026 Spring
- Language of instructionEnglish
- CampusEvenstad
- Scientific study design
- Data collection methods
- Own field work around Evenstad (snow tracking & camera trapping)
- Describing and exploring data
- Basic data visualisation and analysis in EXCEL, GIS, and R
- Scientific reading and writing
Learning Outcome
A candidate with fulfilled qualifications will have the following learning outcome:
The candidate:
- knows what constitutes a scientific study
- is acquainted with different methods used in wildlife research for monitoring populations and biodiversity
- knows about basic visualisation and statistical methods to present data
- understands some of the pitfalls, difficulties, and risks of collecting own data in the field
- understands the importance of ethics in research
The candidate is able to:
- design and conduct a minor wildlife research study
- plan, organize and conduct data collection in the field
- apply basic visualisation and statistical analysis of field data
- can present a study and it's key results in a scientific report
- is able to read scientific literature and discuss own results in the light of other publications
The candidate can:
- conduct small wildlife research projects from design to report
- exchange ideas about and critically discuss different methods used in wildlife research
- reflect about shortcomings of wildlife research project designs and datasets
- reflect ethical questions regarding wildlife research
- Lectures
- Data collection / field work
- Group assignments
- Reports
- Presentation
- Participation in training & data collection associated with 2 different group assignments (90%)
- One group report (failed/passed)
- One group report (60%)
- One individual assignment (40 %)
Grading according to ECTS-system on scale A-E for passed and F for failed
Reading list
No reading list available for this course