Direction not Destination

Modelling Pharmaceuticals in the Environment

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:13:00 +0000

On Friday I spoke at a workshop at MSU that examined a subject I'm not particularly well acquainted with. Participants in Pharmaceuticals in the Environment: Current Trends and Research Priorities...

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Why Model?

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:27:00 +0000

When asked this question, Joshua Epstein would reply: 'You are a modeler.' In his recent article in JASSS he continues: "Anyone who ventures a projection, or imagines how a social dynamic—an...

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eLectures

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:08:00 +0000

During the second half of the course I'm teaching at MSU this semester (FW852 Systems Modeling and Simulation) I've invited several colleagues to give guest lectures on the modelling work they do....

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Seeds and Quadtrees

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 14:00:00 +0000

The main reason I haven't blogged much recently is because all my spare time has been taken up working on revisions to a paper submitted to Environmental Modelling and Software. Provisionally...

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ABM of Mediterranean LUCC Paper Published in JASSS

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:38:00 +0000

Apparently blogging is just soooo 2004 and we should just leave it to the pros. The blog you're reading may not be dead, but has been anaemic of late. Although this may not be the place to catch...

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A Potted Guide to Washington DC

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:47:00 +0000

Last weekend I took a trip to Washington DC to meet up with an old friend as he passed through the East Coast (and, I might add, a newer friend who now lives there). Being Brits, two of us did all...

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Science Fictions

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:20:00 +0000

What's happened to this blog recently? I used to write things like this and this. All I seem to have posted recently are rather vacuous posts about website updates and TV shows I haven't watched...

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Website Update

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:45:00 +0000

Over the last week or so I've made a few changes to my website. The CV page has gone and a link to this blog (the one you're reading right now) has been place in a more prominent position, right up...

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Forest Fire Cellular Automata

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:45:00 +0000

One of the examples I used in class this week when talking about 'Complex Systems' and associated modelling approaches was the Forest Fire Cellular Automata model. I've produced an implementation of...

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Systems Modeling and Simulation

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:16:00 +0000

No sooner am I back from a fun weekend in Toronto (photos on the photos page soon) than the fall semester starts at MSU (is summer over already?!). Today was the first day of the graduate-level...

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IALE-UK 2008 Conference

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:23:00 +0000

The provisional conference programme for the Annual Conference of the UK Regional Association of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (IALE-UK) has been published. The conference will...

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'Mind, the Gap' Manuscript

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:24:00 +0000

Earlier this week I submitted a manuscript to Earth Surface Processes and Landforms with one of my former PhD advisors, John Wainwright. Provisionally entitled Mind, the Gap in Landscape-Evolution...

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Britain from Above

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:23:00 +0000

I like climbing tall things in cities and then looking down to watch the human ants going about their business. Maybe my interest in experimenting with spatial agent-based models is related to this...

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Regional partitioning for wildfire regime characterization

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:41:00 +0000

Fighting wildfires is a strategic operation. In fire-prone areas of the world, such as California and the Mediterranean Basin, it is important that managers allocate and position fire trucks, water...

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US-IALE 2009: Coupling Humans and Complex Ecological Landscapes

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:47:00 +0000

Coupling Humans and Complex Ecological Landscapes is the theme of the 2009 annual conference of US-IALE (U.S. Regional Association, International Association for Landscape Ecology). The conference...

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Upper Peninsula Adventures

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:07:00 +0000

I'm back from fieldwork in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. It was quite a short, but eventful, trip to get some forest stand cruises going - lightning, flat tyres, and an incident with some angry bees...

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Effective Modelling for Sustainable Forest Management

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:04:00 +0000

In many forest landscapes a desirable management objective is the sustainability of both economic productivity and healthy wildlife populations. Such dual-objective management requires a good...

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JASSS Paper Accepted

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:57:00 +0000

This week one of the papers I have been working on as a result of my PhD research has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (JASSS). The paper,...

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Creating a Genuine Science of Sustainability

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:51:00 +0000

Previously, I wrote about Orrin Pilkey and Linda Pilkey-Jarvis' book, Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can’t Predict the Future. In a recent issue of the journal Futures, Jerome...

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Creating our Future

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:02:00 +0000

"The future is ours, not to predict, but to create."- Al Gore, 16th June 2008 Hear, hear. Spoken in the context of climate change, this might be interpreted as a slight against Global Circulation...

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Model Types for Ecological Modelling

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:12:00 +0000

Sven Erik Jørgensen introduces a recent issue of Ecological Modelling that presents selected papers from the International Conference on Ecological Modelling in Yamaguchi, Japan (28 August - 1...

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Aldo Leopold Legacy Center - The 'Greenest Building in the US'

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:50:00 +0000

One of the fieldtrips we took during the US-IALE conference in Madison was to Aldo Leopold's shack and the Aldo Leopold Legacy Center. Aldo Leopold is considered by many to be the 'father' of...

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A Young Scientist's Guide To Gainful Employment

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Wed, 28 May 2008 12:30:00 +0000

A recent article that ranked #1 on the Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America's Top Ten was led by Anita Morzillo, a former student in Fisheries and Wildlife at MSU. The article, entitled 'A...

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Shapefiles in Google Earth

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Thu, 22 May 2008 21:45:00 +0000

Last week I put together a presentation about our Michigan UP Ecological-Economic Modeling project for our funding body. I thought it would be useful to demonstrate the location of our study area in...

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Columbia University Press Sale

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Wed, 21 May 2008 00:20:00 +0000

Columbia University Press currently has a sale on. They have savings of up to 80% on more than 1,000 titles from several fields of study. I was particularly interested in their books in the...

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