PRO CERTIFICATES

“CWS's Applied Quantitative Ecology professional certificate program unlocked new potential in my career. I started with minimal coding experience, but now use R proficiently and confidently apply methods ranging from simple linear regression to multivariate ordination to a variety of ecological datasets.

The program is set apart by its expert instruction in specialized topics that are generally unavailable outside of university graduate programs and by its flexibility to complete it while working full-time. Importantly, it doesn't just teach techniques; it teaches you to assess their appropriateness, evaluate result quality, and continue learning independently.

The skills I gained have already enabled me to analyze decades of community science bird count data that my organization previously lacked the capacity to handle. We now have trends for more than 100 species and found an overall count decline of 20% at local parks over 18 years. These results will directly inform our conservation and advocacy strategies.

If you're passionate about ecology and data, I highly recommend it.” — Joshua Morris