Schedule
Wednesdays 4:30pm-7:00pm at SAMSI, Research Triangle Park, NC, beginning Wednesday, January 10, 2007
No class during week of Spring Break
Last class: Wednesday, April 2007
Instructors:
This course was taught by:
- Richard Anderson, Duke University
- Jim Clark, Duke University
- Montserrat Fuentes, N.C. State University
- Gabi Hegerl, Duke University
- Ken Reckhow, Duke University
- Peter Reichert, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Course Outline:
Getting an overview of and some practice in environmental modelling and its application for increasing our knowledge about ecosystem function and for environmental decision support.
Contents: The course is organized in three parts:
I. Buildung Environmental Models (construction of environmental models)
II. Statistical Inference and Uncertainty Estimation (learning from data
combining data with prior information)
III. Environmental Decision Support (use of models for environmental decision support under uncertainty)
Class Meetings
| Date | Lecture Topic | Speaker | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Part I: Building Environmental Models | |||
| Jan 10 | Models of Terrestrial Ecosystems I | Jim Clark | |
| Jan 17 | Models of Terrestrial Ecosystems II | Jim Clark | |
| Jan 24 | Models of Terrestrial Ecosystems III | Jim Clark | |
| Jan 31 | Models of Aquatic Ecosystems I | Peter Reichert | |
| Feb 07 | Models of Aquatic Ecosystems II | Peter Reichert | Feb 14 | Models of Aquatic Ecosystems III | Peter Reichert |
| Feb 21 | Climate Models I | Gabi Hegerl | |
| Feb 28 | Climate Models II | Gabi Hegerl | Mar 7 | Climate Models III | Gabi Hegerl |
| Part II:Statistical Inference and Uncertainty Estimation | |||
| Mar 14 | Single Decision Regimes: Additional Methods [cont.] | Montserrat Fuentes | |
| Mar 21 | Multiple Decision Treatment Regimes: Fundamentals | Montserrat Fuentes | |
| Part III:Environmental Decision Support | |||
| Mar 28 | Environmental Decision Support I | Ken Reckhow | |
| Apr 4 | NO CLASS | ||
| Student Presentations/Case Studies | |||
| Apr 11 | Case Studies I | ||
| Apr 18 | Case Studies II |