It is now possible to submit your abstract for the World Conference on Natural Resources Modeling, that will be held in Leipzig in June 2022, please visit:
https://www.idiv.de/en/wcnrm2022
or submit your abstract directly here:
https://www.conftool.net/wcnrm2022/index.php?page=login
The abstract submission deadline is April 15, 2022
Hope to see you in June.
For the first time in South America, the 2020 World Conference on Natural Resource Modeling was held on January 8-10, 2020 in Valparaiso, Chile, hosted by Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María. The theme of the conference was “Decision support methods for natural systems at risk”. Organizers could no have predicted the timeliness of this theme as the COVID-19 pandemic was starting to manifest and spread around the World. The conference focus was 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 was devoted to fishery, ecology, biodiversity, wildfire, water, pollution mitigation, and natural resource management in general. One of the WCNRM2020 main goals was thus, to foster cooperation among disciplines of mathematics, economics, management, ecology, energy, and computer sciences, among others.
Visit the conference webpage, WCNRM previous editions and the Resource Modeling Association Newsletter (Spring 2020) for further information about this successful conference, which ended 20 days prior to the WHO declaration of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30-Jan-2020.
Great conference #WCNRM2019 in Montreal!! Thanks to organizers and HEC @HEC_Montreal We wait you in Valparaiso-Chile for the next conference in January 2020 (first time in South America) #WCNRM2020 @ResModelAsso @usantamaria @CMMUChile More information in http://www.am2v.cl/wcnrm2020/
DeLara introduced an interesting new indicator for Management Strategy Evaluation. Expected value of an indicator (e.g. spawning biomass) conditional on the indicator being below the reference point. want it to be above a threshold-Leads to more precaution #WCNRM2019 @ResModelAsso
This week im (Emma @emmajhudgins) at #WCNRM2019 with my collaborator Mark Ambrose from @forestservice @NCState where we are presenting 2 different talks on pest risk to urban trees! Here he is discussing risk to US palms from coconut rhinoceros beetle 
11:27 AM – 23 May 2019 from Montréal, Québec
@MattHHolden gives us rules of thumb when using Demographic Distribution Models to deal with spatial autocorrelation in SDMs – populations must be measured below a minimum size that increases with overcompensatory behaviour. Most promising for use with invasives
Ignoring species interactions in fisheries stock assessments results in higher bias than ignoring process or measurement error by Vanessa Trijoulet at #WCNRM2019 @ResModelAsso
12:20 PM – 23 May 2019 from Montréal, Québec
#WCNRM2019 Congrats to the 2 Student Presentation #Award #winners! – Emma Hudgins from McGill University: Estimating the economic damages of United States invasive forest pests – Etienne Lorang from CEC/INRA: Recycling under environmental, climate and resource constraints.
As in the past, the World Conference on Natural Resource Modeling (WCNRM) brought together scientists and stakeholders interested in mathematical and numerical modeling of renewable and exhaustible resources. The WCNRM provided a forum for exchanging ideas on modeling issues related to environmental and natural resources.
The WCNRM 2018 was co-organized by Resource Modeling Association and South China Agricultural University. Held on June 9-13, 2018 in Guangzhou, China, the theme of the conference was biodiversity conservation and sustainable development. The main aim of this theme was to look for socio- ecological solutions, especially in developing countries where economic growth and environmental quality are competing objectives. The conference focussed particular attention on biodiversity conservation, ecological resilience, management of the protected areas, and sustainable utilization of natural resources.
The Barcelona conference WCNRM 2017 was a great success featuring 110 talks during 3 days delivered by scientists from all around the world providing a very satisfying balance between young and senior researchers.
The central theme of the conference namely “Vulnerability and Resilience of Socio-ecological Systems” as well as the quality and
diversity of keynote speakers including Linda Nøstbakken
(Norway, Resource Economics), Mark Finney (US, Research
Forester), Marc Castellnou (Spain, Research Forester) and Frank van Langevelde (Netherlands, Ecology) have strongly contributed to the attractiveness of the conference. The awarding of both the Rollie Lamberson Medal and the prize of best student presentation during the conference also reinforces this interest of our annual conferences. Bill Reed from the University of Victoria in Canada was also honored as RMA Fellow 2017 by the Resource Modeling Association in recognition to his scientific work in natural resource modeling and for his sustained leadership regarding the resource conservation, management and economics.
The Barcelona conference was also successful in regard to social events. In particular the well-organised gala dinner held on the splendid terrace along the Barcelona port provided a friendly and very pleasant atmosphere strongly enjoyed by all participants . Many attendees had difficulties to leave this wonderful place of the Catalan city.
Key to the success of any conference is the unseen work behind the scenes, with tireless efforts from local scientists, administrative staff and organization. In this respect, Nuria Prat Guitart, Elsa Pastor, Oriol, Mariona and all Spanish colleagues in particular from the Pau Costa Foundation and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya did a great job and deserve warm acknowledgement for their organisation of WCNRM 2017.
The 2015 International Conference of the Resource Modeling Association was held at the University of Bordeaux from 29th June to 1st July 2015.