This special topics course is focused on the Application of Geostatistics in Earth Science Research.  The course is ideally suited for those students who seek to develop more in-depth skills and an advanced understanding of the concepts behind modern tools for detecting, describing, and estimating spatial patterns and trends.  The course specifically addresses ways of investigating the spatial continuity that is an essential feature of natural phenomena. 

This is a 3 credit course.  Grades are based upon two "take home" test, and a project design by the student.

Readings will include:

"An Introduction to Applied Geostatistics" by Edward H. Isaaks and R. Mohan Srivastava, Oxford University Press, 1989.

"Spatial Data Analysis: Theroy and Practice" by Robert Haining, Cambridge University Press, 1993.

"Statistics for Spatial data" by Noel a. c. Cressie, Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1991. 

All participants must be familiar with the tools found in commercial GIS software.