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Welcome to the RMA
The Resource Modeling Association was established over a quarter of a century ago and is unique among scientific societies because it brings together scientists and mathematicians from a diverse range of disciplines with a common interest in studying natural resources from a sustainable-use perspective. The natural resources of our planet are under incredible pressure to supply burgeoning human needs and this will only continue to increase. Challenges are ever-present to ensure that resource use remains sustainable and that vital ecosystem services critical for our well-being, species biodiversity essential for the well-being of the global ecosystem, and ecosystem resilience to perturbation are conserved as far as practicable through responsible action. Such action must be informed and it is here that the integration of the quantitative and biological sciences can play a determining role.
Recently we held our 23rd annual meeting in Montreal, Canada where participants were treated to a superb and diverse range of presentations about the practical application of modeling to real world problems within a convivial collegiate atmosphere of friendly exchange of ideas and opinions. Preparations are now well underway for our next meeting to be held in the coastal city of Valparaiso, Chile during 8-10 January 2020.
I encourage you to consider joining with like-minded people and becoming a member of the RMA to assist you to grow your own professional network and participate in being part of the solution to the global challenge of natural resource management.
Sincerely,
Frank van Langevelde
RMA President
World Conference on Natural Resource Modeling
Dear Colleagues,
The 2020 World Conference on Natural Resource Modeling will be held on January 8-10, 2020 in Valparaiso, Chile, hosted by Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María. This will be the first occasion when an RMA conference has been held in South America. The theme of the conference is “Decision support methods for natural systems at risk”.
The conference will focus on how quantitative applied research from diverse disciplines can assess different levels of risk, support decisions oriented to minimize them, and propose approaches for operationalizing sustainability concepts. Special attention is devoted to fishery, ecology, biodiversity, wildfire, water, pollution mitigation, and natural resource management in general. One of the WCNRM2020 main goals is thus, to foster cooperation among disciplines of mathematics, economics, management, ecology, energy, and computer sciences, among others.
For additional information about invited speakers, venue, submission, etc., please visit the Conference’s website:
The organizers,
Pedro Gajardo (Co-Chair) – Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile
Héctor Ramírez (Co-Chair) – Universidad de Chile, Chile
Luc Doyen – CNRS & Université de Bordeaux, France
Victor Riquelme – Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile
Nominations for Lamberson Award 2020
Call for nomination to Lamberson Award 2020
The Rollie Lamberson Award celebrates the contribution of Professor Emeritus Rollie Lamberson to the field of natural resource modeling and the growth of the Resource Modeling Association by recognizing each year the most outstanding paper in natural resource modeling in the previous two years. See http://resourcemodeling.org/lamberson/ or below for more details.
- Only current RMA members are eligible for the award.
- All papers published in Natural Resource Modeling during the previous two calendar years (namely 2017-2018) will be considered automatically provided at least one of the authors is a current member.
- Papers published in other journals may be nominated for consideration provided at least one of the co-authors is a current member. To be considered, the submission must comprise:
- an electronic version of the paper in English,
- a nominating letter specifying why the paper is deserving of the Rollie Lamberson Award. Criteria below.
Send your nominations to < RMA contact from the website. The submission for the 2020 award will be closed on December 31, 2019.
The Lamberson prize will be delivered to the winners during the 2020 RMA conference to be held in Chile during January, 2020.
NRM Journal going from strength to strength
Our journal, Natural Resource Modeling, has done it again! Our 2014 Impact Factor continues to rise, this time to 1.196. I can’t emphasize enough how helpful and important it is for you to promote our journal – make researchers aware of it, encourage your colleagues to submit papers, and reference articles we publish whenever appropriate.
Each year I provide an annual auditor’s report of our accounts in accordance with US legislation for not for profit societies. In addition I keep the Board appraised of income and expenditure several times each year, with particular attention to conference funding. As well as income from membership fees and transactions associated with conferences, I also manage payments for various services such as the hosting of this website.
Check out our Journal NRM
Journal Home Page please visit the home page for the latest issue of Natural Resource Modeling online and look out in future for a special issue containing papers presented at the 2015 World Conference on Natural Resource Modeling recently held in Bordeaux, France.