Learners in this course will examine global trade agreements -- including policies, barriers, and regulations -- of agricultural commodities, and discuss implications of world and economic disruptions on the food supply chain. Throughout this course, learners will also discuss issues of sustainability, technology, and the environment as it relates to the supply and distribution … [Read more...] about Issues in Supply Chain Management
Environmental Science and Sustainability
Sports Turf Management: Best Practices
The Sports Turf Management: Best Practices course will cover the construction, management, and challenges in maintaining athletic fields intended for football, soccer, and baseball. You will learn the fundamental management practices for maintaining athletic fields, such as fertilization, irrigation, mowing, and pest control. An overview of athletic field construction, … [Read more...] about Sports Turf Management: Best Practices
Climate Solutions
This short course has been designed by award-winning climate change experts and passionate educators to give you an insight into the greatest challenge of our era. Through completing the course, you'll gain a deeper understanding of core climate concepts such as mitigation, adaptation, climate justice, carbon footprinting, net zero and solutions frameworks. We'll look at … [Read more...] about Climate Solutions
Marine Biology
This course is about life in the oceans, from the sunlit surface to the inky depths, from microscopic phytoplankton to the great blue whale. The ocean is among the world’s most inhospitable environments for scientific research, which is why we know as much about the surface of the moon as we do the bottom of the sea. This course uncovers the evolutionary history of marine … [Read more...] about Marine Biology
Climate Geospatial Analysis on Python with Xarray
By the end of this project, you will be able to load, visualize, manipulate and perform both simple and grouped operations over geospatial multidimensional data through Xarray and Python. We'll explore an dataset containing temperature, vegetation density and total precipitation over the Brazilian Amazon for the 1979-2019 period while the concepts are developed. This will … [Read more...] about Climate Geospatial Analysis on Python with Xarray