Erin Bayne, PhD MSc BSc (Hons)
Pronouns: He, him, his
Contact
Professor, Faculty of Science - Biological Sciences
- bayne@ualberta.ca
- Phone
- (780) 492-4165
- Address
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1-275 Centennial Ctr For Interdisciplinary SCS II
11335 Saskatchewan Drive NWEdmonton ABT6G 2H5
Overview
About
In addition to my responsibilities as a professor, I am director of the WildTrax information system for the open-access sharing and processing of remote camera and ARU data, co-director of the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute's Science Centre, steering committee member of the Boreal Avian Modelling Project, and director of the University of Alberta Field Research Office. My lab participates in the Land Reclamation International Graduate School (LRIGS) and Computational Biodiversity Science and Services (BIOS²) programs sponsored by NSERC CREATE. Current lab members can access information about lab protocols and resources here
Research
Courses
BIOL 330 - Introduction to Biological Data
Expands on prior introductions to the scientific method and examines the steps involved in the planning, collection, organization, analysis and presentation of biological data. Classes will explore the types of data used to answer a variety of biological questions and will review several different sampling designs, assess the benefits and limitations of various data types for scientific inference, and integrate the statistical methods that are common to other introductory courses. Labs will teach students how spreadsheets and relational databases can be used to manipulate, analyze, and present the results of scientific research. Prerequisites: BIOL 208 and STAT 151 or SCI 151.
BIOL 471 - Landscape Ecology
Landscapes are holistic entities whose patterns influence ecological processes. Topics highlighted in this course include landscape components, morphology and dynamics; detecting spatial/temporal change in landscapes; issues of scales; movements of organisms, disturbances, and nutrients across landscape mosaics; and restoration, planning and management in a landscape context. Labs emphasize GIS applications to characterizing landscape patterns and heterogeneity in space and time, distributing and moving organisms across landscapes, and restoring or planning landscapes for conservation objectives. Prerequisites: MATH 115 or SCI 100; STAT 151 or SCI 151; one of BIOL 331, 332 or BOT 332. Previous GIS course is useful. Credit cannot be obtained for both BIOL 471 and 571.
BIOL 571 - Landscape Ecology and Applications
Landscapes are holistic entities whose patterns influence ecological processes. Topics highlighted in this course include landscape components, morphology and dynamics; detecting spatial/temporal change in landscapes; issues of scales; movements of organisms, disturbances, and nutrients across landscape mosaics; and restoration, planning and management in a landscape context. Labs emphasize GIS applications to characterizing landscape patterns and heterogeneity in space and time, distributing and moving organisms across landscapes, and restoring or planning landscapes for conservation objectives. Lectures and labs are the same as for BIOL 471, but with an additional research project and evaluation appropriate to graduate studies. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Credit cannot be obtained for both BIOL 471 and 571.