Advanced school on Multispecies Modelling Approaches for Ecosystem Based Marine Resource Management in the Mediterranean Sea. Application deadline: 30 April 2017. WHAT: Globally applicable Area Disaggregated General Ecosystem Toolbox (GADGET); Models of Intermediate Complexity for Ecosystem assessments (MICE). When: from 30 July to 5 August 2017 Where: Torretta Granitola (Sicily) at the Unit of Capo
Abstract A coupled population dynamics and economic model is applied to the purse seine anchovy-fishery in the Gulf of Cádiz. The model simulates the population dynamics, landings and profits on a probabilistic frame. These simulations are used to assess the biological and economic consequences of an individual quota management framework enveloped by a fixed Total
Hakai Magazine, 15 March 2017. More than 100 ago, the intricate interconnections in the ocean were glimpsed and the need to unravel them to make the best management decisions foresaw. Aaron Orlowski has released "The Fisheries Scientist Who Saw the Future" wondering why are we struggling to implement some recommendations for fisheries management. Particular attention
The Social Simulation Conference 2017 will be held in Dublin on 25 – 29 September, 2017. This is the 13th Annual Conference of the European Social Simulation Association (ESSA) which is the main European scientific society to promote social simulation and computational social science. The aim of this international conference is to share and foster
Abstract A repeated crossover experiment comparing learning among students handing in pen-and-paper homework (PPH) with students handing in web-based homework (WBH) has been conducted. The system used in the experiments, the tutor-web, has been used to deliver homework problems to thousands of students in mathematics and statistics over several years. Since 2011 experimental changes have
This conference, for researchers, practitioners, and activists, will focus on questions relating to systemic change: What kind of systemic alternatives are desirable and feasible in the economic, political, social, and cultural spheres? What systems have to change, and why is it so hard to change them? What strategies could environmental movements adopt in order to
This report is a Deliverable of Work Package 7 (WP7 – Synthesis & training development) of the FP7 MareFrame research project. In this report we introduce tutor-web, the Learning Content Management System (LCMS) chosen to store MareFrame learning material, and subsequently outline the available content and explain where it can be downloaded from. Finally, we
This report is a deliverable of Work Package 7 (WP7 – Synthesis & training development) of the FP7 MareFrame research project. The report comprises two main parts. The first part presents a protocol for the comparison and evaluation of the ecosystem models that have been developed and applied within the MareFrame project. This is to
This report is a deliverable of Work Package 5 (WP5 – Apply new methods in case studies) of the FP7 MareFrame research project. It documents the application of a large number of ecosystem models into the different case studies with the ultimate goal to provide the quantitative information required by the decision support tools developed
This report is the 7th deliverable in WP4 and studies the performance of Ecopath with Ecosim (EwE) and Gadget in data-poor cases. The Atlantis model that was constructed for Icelandic waters was used as an operating model and data simulated from the model for data-poor scenarios. The simulated data was fed into EwE and Gadget