Direction not Destination

New Models for Ecosystems Dynamics and Restoration

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:02:00 +0000

Recently I've been working on a review of the latest contribution to The Science and Practice of Ecological Restoration book series, entitled New Models for Ecosystems Dynamics and Restoration...

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Bayesian Multimodel Inference

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:42:00 +0000

The abstract we submitted to the ESA Meeting was accepted a while back. Since we submitted it, Megan and I have been back in the field for some additional data collection and I've been doing some new...

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What is the point... of social simulation modelling?

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 13:27:00 +0000

Previously, I mentioned a thread on SIMSOC initiated by Scott Moss. He asked 'Does anyone know of a correct, real-time, [agent] model-based, policy-impact forecast?. Following on to the responses to...

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Millington et al. 2009 - A landscape fire-succession model

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:09:00 +0000

As promised, I'm hollering: Millington, J.D.A., Wainwright, J., Perry, G.L.W., Romero-Calcerrada, R. and Malamud, B.D. (2009) Modelling Mediterranean landscape succession-disturbance dynamics: A...

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End of the Line

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:00:00 +0000

Coinciding with World Oceans Day, today was the UK premier of End of the Line the "world’s first major documentary about the devastating effect of overfishing". It already seems to be making an...

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nighthawks

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 02:23:00 +0000

I love the energy of big cities. Sometimes there's so much it spills over into the early hours of the morning. On a trip to Chicago last weekend we saw Hopper's evocative depiction of that straggling...

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Developing Sustainable Lifestyles

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Mon, 25 May 2009 16:35:00 +0000

It can be hard not to abandon hope for a sustainable future when you read about our rapidly growing global population and the hopes of those in the developing world (growing the fastest) to lead more...

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Apture

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Thu, 21 May 2009 21:29:00 +0000

I've just discovered Apture - it looks like a pretty cool tool for integrating media into websites and blogs like this one. I've just installed it and will be experimenting to see how well it works....

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US-IALE 2009: GLP Agent-Based Modelling Symposium

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Sun, 17 May 2009 15:15:00 +0000

The second symposium I spent time in at US-IALE 2009, other than the CHANS workshop, was the Global Land Project Symposium on Agent-Based Modeling of Land Use Effects on Ecosystem Processes and...

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Peter Orszag and Economic Models

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Thu, 14 May 2009 23:08:00 +0000

A while ago I heard this interview with Peter Orszag, Director of the US Office of Management and Budget and one of President Obama's key economic advisors. Interestingly to me, given what I've...

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US-IALE 2009: CHANS Workshop

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Sun, 10 May 2009 19:41:00 +0000

Coupled Human and Natural Systems (CHANS) research is all about relationships – that seemed to be one of the main conclusions of the Challenges and Opportunities in Research on Complexity of Coupled...

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Cedar Swamps and Deer

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Tue, 05 May 2009 18:59:00 +0000

Right now I should be back in East Lansing after a week of fieldwork in our Michigan Upper Peninsula (the UP) study area. We’ve been in the UP this last week to finish up on our mesic conifer...

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US-IALE 2009: Overview and Fire

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:03:00 +0000

Last week I was at 2009 US-IALE in Snowbird, Utah. It was a great meeting; my presentations went down well, I participated in two stimulating symposia and a statistics workshop, heard interesting...

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A Companion to Environmental Geography: Brief Review

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:08:00 +0000

A couple of weeks ago I received my copy of 'A Companion to Environmental Geography' to review for Progress in Physical Geography. I'm still working my way through the edited volume's diverse...

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Environmental Modelling and Software paper In Press

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:01:00 +0000

It took a while (first submitted late February 2008) but the manuscript I submitted with colleagues to Environmental Modelling and Software has now been accepted for publication. The paper describes...

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Sustainability: PhD Comics

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 23:55:00 +0000

Original here

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US-IALE 2009: CSIS Activites

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:21:00 +0000

The US-IALE 2009 program has now been finalised and I've been perusing it to think about what I'll be doing whilst there. I expect most of my Monday will be spent at one of the special symposia,...

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Abandon Hope

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:30:00 +0000

Last Friday I was aiming to go to a seminar by Dr Michael Nelson entitled An Unprecedented Challenge: Environmental Ethics and Global Climate Change. Unfortunately time flies when you're coding [our...

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ESA 2009 Abstract

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:31:00 +0000

February 2009 seems to be the month of abstracts. Here's another we just submitted to the 94th Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, the theme of which is Ecological Knowledge and a Global...

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PEST or Panacea?

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:12:00 +0000

Although some may say blogging is dead, the editors at Nature think it's good to blog. The Nature editors discuss the place of blogging in scientific discourse, focusing on the reporting of results...

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US-IALE 2009: Abstracts

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 02:29:00 +0000

The two abstracts I submitted to US-IALE 2009 have been accepted for (oral) presentation at the meeting. I'll be presenting both on the work I've been doing here at CSIS and from my PhD. I've copied...

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Snowy UP Forests

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 01:45:00 +0000

On Monday several other members of the EE model research team and I met with foresters from Plum Creek and AFM to give them an overview of what we've been working on over the past year or so. Megan...

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Publishing in Geography

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:50:00 +0000

Got a Geography paper you want to publish? You would do well to read the RGS guide to publishing in Geography. In fact, it's got some good tips for anyone wanting to learn more about publishing in...

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Winter White-Tailed Deer Density Paper

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:32:00 +0000

First week back in CSIS after the holiday and I got cracking with the winter white-tailed deer density paper we're working. Understanding the winter spatial distribution of deer are important for the...

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Predicting 2009

noreply@blogger.com (James) — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:30:00 +0000

Over the holiday period the media offer us plenty of fodder to discuss the past year's events and what the future may hold. Whether it's current affairs, music, sport, economics or any other aspect...

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