<p>as a concentration in forestry?</p>
<p>Modeling usually refers to regression models, which are statistical based. Using independent variables either observed in the environment, or obtained from an experiment, to predict an outcome (which is the dependent variable).</p>
<p>I’m not as familiar with ecological models specific to forestry, but I’ll try to give you an example:</p>
<p>Predicting the size of adult trees based upon their diameter at time of planting.</p>
<p>Other things like estimating disease rates in plants, density of trees in parcels land, estimating wildlife populations, etc.</p>
<p>Statistics is used heavily in ecology.</p>
<p>Biometrics is a broad term that can apply to various fields, including heathcare, medical research, pharmaceutical research, and various other biological fields, either human related or animal related.</p>
<p>Look up U of Washington’s QERM (Quantitative Ecology & Resource Management) graduate program. They have some more details on ecological modeling.</p>
<p>These are applied math degrees. Check your math or CS department and see if they have bioinformatics or computational biology emphasis. Whatever you do don’t get the degree from a biology department, just by saying Biology on your degree your average income will decrease by 10000 per year.</p>
<p>Try UCSD’s B.S. in Bioengineering: Bioinformatics degree.</p>