Monday Afternoon, October 23
MS16
Environmental Modeling and Computation
A wide variety of modeling approaches and computational methods are
being applied to important environmental problems. This minisymposium will
focus on two particular applications, community ecotoxicology and
landscape-scale modeling, with wide-ranging potential uses in ecological
assessment and ecosystem management. Both applications make use of
individual-based modeling approaches. The ecotoxicology models utilize
partial differential equations for population structure and the
landscape-scale models use spatially-explicit simulation of individual
organisms. For each application, one speaker will describe the
underlying modeling problems, and a second speaker will discuss the
related computation issues, with emphasis on parallelization methods.
Organizer: Louis J. Gross
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- 4:30 Risk Assessment for Chemically Stressed Populations and Communities
- Thomas Hallam, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- 5:00 Parallel Computation in Structured Population and Community Models
- Siddharthan Ramachandramurthi, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- 5:30 Modeling the Everglades: Integrating Alternative Methodologies across Scales
- Louis J. Gross, Organizer; Donald A. DeAngelis and D. Martin Fleming, National Biological Service
- 6:00 Parallel Computation for Individual-based Ecological Models at Landscape-scale
- Hang-Kwang Luh, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
7/25/95