1/ A funded PhD is available at Queensland University of Technology studying the relationship between vegetation, bushfires and buildings. You’d be using drones and 3D models, and working in a team to create highly impactful outcomes. Please contact Grant Hamilton g.hamilton@qut.edu.au for details.
2/ PhD opportunity is available for a collaborative project between Auckland Bioengineering Institute and DairyNZ and will involve working with and improving the existing cow model, Molly. Molly is a key component in the DairyNZ toolbox used to design sustainable dairy systems for the future. It means that the suitable candidate will have excellent employment opportunities in NZ as post-doc scientist after the PhD.
The ANU is seeking a PhD candidate to work on testing for runoff non-recovery in ACT catchments, understanding potential mechanisms behind non-recovery, and incorporating non-recovery into catchment models. The student will be the primary person responsible for carrying out the work of the project. The student will work closely with researchers from across ANU at the Institute for Water Futures, with contacts at Icon Water, and with external experts such as Dr Tim Peterson at Monash University.
3-7 May 2022 | University of Toronto, Scarborough, Canada
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Call for symposium proposals! Deadline: 17 September 2021
The International Society for Ecological Modelling Global Conference 2022 (ISEM 2022), under the theme ‘Ecological Models for Tomorrow’s Solutions’, will bring together scientists from all professions and applications that deal with the use of ecological models and systems ecology.
Toronto shall be the inspiring space for the Ecological Modelling community to meet, discuss and share ideas. In this conference, ecological modellers will join in their ongoing effort in advancing the concepts and methods of ecological modelling to develop ecological theory in a wide range of topics and modelling approaches.
The rigorous analysis of decision problems in environmental management requires specification of criteria to evaluate alternative management strategies; predictive models formulated in terms of variables relevant to management objectives; a finite set of management actions, including any constraints on their use; and monitoring programs to follow ecosystem responses to management.
In this context, the major challenges are associated with the uncertainty in the predictions of management outcomes. This uncertainty may stem from incomplete control of management actions, errors in measurements and sampling, environmental variability, or incomplete knowledge of system behavior. Failure to recognize and account for these sources of uncertainty may lead to catastrophic environmental and economic losses.
Accordingly, there has been a growing interest in the policy practice of adaptive management, which is an iterative implementation strategy that is recommended to address the uncertainty associated with ecological forecasts and to minimize the impact of inefficient management plans. Adaptive implementation or “learning while doing” augments initial forecasts of management actions with post-implementation monitoring, and the resulting integration of monitoring and modelling provides the basis for revised management actions.
ISEM 2022 aims to provide insights into the current state of the field of ecological modelling, and also highlight the major challenges in supporting adaptive management implementation.
We invite contributions that present novel strategies to improve the contribution of models to environmental management, including the development of ecological model ensembles, novel uncertainty analysis techniques, Bayesian inference methods, emerging techniques of data assimilation and model optimization.
Abstracts are now invited on the following topics and symposiums. They should be submitted using the online abstract submission system.
Abstract Submission Deadline: 12 November 2021
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