Spring 2026: Evaluating the water quality of local streams

Weekly schedule

The following schedule links to the information you will need for each lesson. All assignments are submitted on the course Moodle page Any changes will be announced to students.

Week	Date	Topic
1	Thursday, Jan. 15	Data collection and experimental design	activity	slides
2	Tuesday, Jan. 20	Using R programming for data analysis Last day to add/drop course	activity	slides
	Thursday, Jan. 22	Stream Ecology		slides
3	Tuesday, Jan. 27	Snow day; no in-person class
	Thursday, January 29	Data manipulation and management	activity
4	Tuesday, Feb. 3	Graphing	activity	graphing slides water quality slides
	Thursday, Feb. 5	Review
5	Tuesday, Feb. 10	Exam 1
	Thursday, Feb. 12	Exam 1 Review	Figure caption activity Review activity	Scientific results slides
6	Tuesday, Feb. 17	Summarizing data	activity
	Thursday, Feb. 19	Advanced R skills	activity
7	Tuesday, Feb. 24	Statistics	Activity	slides
	Thursday, Feb. 26	Review
8	Tuesday, Mar. 3	Exam 2
	Thursday, Mar. 5	Data Ethics guest speaker
9	Mar. 9-13	Spring Break; no classes
10	Tuesday, Mar. 17	Spatial analysis	Review Activity Mapping Activity
	Thursday, Mar. 19	Class project work	Activity
11	Tuesday, Mar. 23	Class project work day	Activity
	Thursday, Mar. 25	Project write up and discussions Last Day to Withdraw with “W”	Activity
12	Tuesday, Mar. 31	Physical characteristics in the field
	Thursday, Apr. 2	Chemical Characteristics in the field
13	Tuesday, Apr. 7	Chemical characteristics in the lab
	Thursday, Apr. 9	Field work conclusions Quiz on field work
14	Tuesday, Apr. 14	Showcase Practice
	Thursday, Apr. 16	Project work day
15	Tuesday, Apr. 21	WPU Showcase; Our class will present! Time TBD
	Thursday, Apr. 23	Macroinvertebrate sampling in the field
16	Tuesday, Apr. 28	Peer review and work day
	Friday, May 1	Individual poster presentations during exam time