2009 World Conference on Natural Resource Modeling
Juneau, Alaska, June 17-19, 2009
Scientific Program
- The following information is available in .pdf format here
- the scientific program detailed below,
- biographies of the keynote speakers,
- abstracts of all talks and
- a list of registered participants.
A list of conference attendees is here in Microsoft Excel format.
Conference sessions will be held in the Egan lecture hall on the University
of Alaska Southeast campus at Auke Lake.
Tuesday 16 June, 2009
- 7:00pm - 9:00pm
- Registration and reception at Lena Point (transportation provided)
Wednesday 17 June, 2009
- 8:00am - 9:00am
- Registration
- 9:00am - 10:00am
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Keynote speaker: Jon Schnute
- The past and future of fishery models: what I learned and unlearned during 31 years at Pacific Biological Station
- Abstract Presentation
- Biography
- 10:00am - 10:20am
- Break
- 10:20am - 10:40am
- Ianelli, Jim: Recent developments on modeling random effects in fisheries
- Abstract Presentation
- 10:40am - 11:00am
- Hannesson, Rognvaldur: When is fish quota enforcement worth while? A study of the Northeast Arctic cod
- Abstract Presentation
- 11:00am - 11:20am
- Hulson, Peter-John and Dana H. Hanselman and Terrance J. Quinn II: Effects of process and observation error on multinomial effective sample size from fishery and survey age and length composition data
- Abstract Presentation
- 11:20am - 11:40am
- Fissel, Benjamin Earl: Spatial fisheries management in the presence of environmental variability
- Abstract Presentation
- 11:40am - 12:00pm
- Hearne, John and Paul Moloney: Towards an integrated system for managing domestic stock and wildlife
- Abstract Presentation
- 12:00pm - 1:30pm
- Lunch
- 1:30pm - 2:30pm
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Keynote speaker: George Sugihara
- Causality, Prediction and Nonlinearity in Fisheries
- Abstract
- Biography
- 2:30pm - 2:50pm
- Break
- 2:50pm - 3:10pm
- Richards, Laura: Frustrations from fisheries forecasts
- Abstract Presentation
- 3:10pm - 3:30pm
- Beard, Rodney and Linda Nøstbakken: Multi-jurisdiction enforcement of catch quotas for transboundary fish stocks
- Abstract
- 3:30pm - 3:50pm
- Kvamsdal, Sturla and Stephen Stohs: A Kalman filter for environmental risk: spatio-temporal variation in sea turtle bycatch rates
- Abstract Presentation
- 3:50pm - 4:10pm
- Hall, Larry and Krishna Paudel: Modeling a complex system: point and nonpoint sources trading to reduce water pollution in Louisiana
- Abstract Presentation
- 4:10pm - 4:30pm
- Walter, Martin: Weatherquakes, climate change and mathematics
- Abstract Presentation
- 4:30pm - 4:50pm
- Carvalho, Natacha: Small versus large-scale fishing operations in the Azores Archipelago
- Abstract Presentation
- 6:00pm to 9:00pm
- Salmon Barbeque at the Auke Village Recreation Area (transportation provided)
Thursday 18 June, 2009
- 8:00am - 9:00am
- Registration
- 9:00am - 10:00am
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Keynote speaker: Kerim Aydin
- Integrating data, fieldwork, and models into an ecosystem-level synthesis: the modeling challenge of the Bering Ecosystem Study/Bering Sea Integrated Research Program
- Abstract Presentation
- Biography
- 10:00am - 10:20am
- Break
- 10:20am - 10:40am
- VanKirk, Kray and Terrance J Quinn II and Jeremy Collie: A multispecies age-structured assessment model for the Gulf of Alaska
- Abstract Presentation
- 10:40am - 11:00am
- Ver Hoef, Jay: A Bayesian hierarchical model of an Antarctic ecosystem
- Abstract Presentation
- 11:00am - 11:20am
- Hannesson, Rognvaldur and Sam Herrick: Sardine as forage fish
- Abstract Presentation
- 11:20am - 11:40am
- Chivers, William and William Gladstone and Ric Herbert: Generalized, parsimonious, individual-based computer models of ecological systems: their potential for the development of mechanistic understanding
- Abstract Presentation
- 11:40am - 12:00pm
- Hall, Larry and Krishna Paudel: Modeling a complex system using a GIS-based biophysical simulation model
- Abstract Presentation
- 12:00pm - 12:20pm
- Pantus, Francis and Beth Fulton: Sensitivity analysis of complex ecosystem models
- Abstract Presentation
- 12:20pm - 1:30pm
- Lunch
- 12:30pm - 1:30pm
- RMA Board Meeting
Friday 19 June, 2009
- 9:00am - 9:20am
- Strub, Mike: Are there any growth models left to be discovered?
- Abstract Presentation
- 9:20am - 9:40am
- McKelvey, Steven and Bill Smith and Frank Koch: Bayesian spatial tracking of human transported exotic pests: preventing Sudden Oak Death in eastern hardwood forests
- Abstract Presentation
- 9:40am - 10:00am
- Parresol, Bernard: Development of a new landscape contagion index and variance estimation through subseries analysis
- Abstract Presentation
- 10:00am - 10:20am
- Break
- 10:20am - 10:40am
- Lyon, Ken and Shantanu Bagchi: A general equilibrium analysis of pesticide resistance in a two sector stochastic neoclassical growth model
- Abstract Presentation
- 10:40am - 11:00am
- Moll, Rick and Deming Luo: Modelling alternative valuations of standing timber in Canada
- Abstract Presentation
- 11:00am - 11:20am
- Parresol, Bernard: A stochastic modeling approach that uses sample inventory data to populate a GIS database with forest stands
- Abstract Presentation
- 11:30am - 12:30pm
- Lunch
- 12:30pm - 1:00pm
- RMA Business meeting
- 1:00pm - 1:30pm
- NRM Journal Session
- Presentation
- 1:30pm - 2:00pm
- Awards program
Saturday 20 June, 2009
- Post-conference excursions. In addition to the wide variety of activities that can be arranged through local tour services (e.g., whale watching, fishing, cruise to Glacier Bay or Tracy Arm), we will organize a hike to the Herbert Glacier and sea-kayaking on Auke Bay.
