Graduate programs have placed an increasing emphasis on the importance of interdisciplinary education, but barriers to interdisciplinary training still remain. We present a new model for interdisciplinary, cross-institution graduate teaching that combines the best of local teaching, distance learning, and experiential learning to provide students…

Advocates cooperative research between the different specialties concerned with natural resource management and utilization to avoid accidental conflicts of interest. (AL)

Advocates an interdisciplinary approach to the solving of environmental problems so as to improve the quality of life. Also advocates a change in academic attitudes and approaches so that science information will be communicated in such a way as to affect public opinion and policy making regarding world ecological problems. (BR)

Describes a program in which students develop a mathematical model, based on simple feedback loops, used for predicting consequences of varying ecological parameters. Presentation early in undergraduate course emphasizes use of statistics in ecology. (AL)