QERM seminar
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QERM 597 Course Moderator: Jim Anderson
Time: Wednesdays, 3:30 – 4:50 p.m.
Location: Bagley Hall 106
FOR NOVEMBER 25 Jennifer Ruesink's
Reading material on invasive species
Plant invasion across space and time
Web Resource
National Invasive Species Information Center
FOR NOVEMBER 18 Jim Anderson
and Rich Zabel
Reading material about climate change and water
Water allocation model COMPASS
Effects of climate change on agriculture, land use, water resources and biodiversity
The Effects of Climate Change on Water Resources in the United States
For additional resources see the full report
FOR NOVEMBER 4
Sandor Toth reading material
Finding the Efficient Frontier of a Bi-Criteria, Spatially Explicit, Harvest Scheduling Problem
Finding Efficient Harvest Schedules under Three Conflicting Objectives
Promoting Large, Compact Mature Forest Patches in Harvest Scheduling Models
FOR OCTOBER 28
Ray Hilborn reading material
Rapid worldwide depletion of predatory fish communities
Fisheries:Decline of Pacific tuna populations exaggerated?
Biomass, Size, and Trophic Status of Top Predators in the Pacific Ocean
Folly and fantasy in the analysis of spatial catch rate data
FOR OCTOBER 21
William Calvin - Reading material William Calvin's Climate Fix
Nate Mantua - Reading material executive summary of the Washington Climate Change Impacts Assessment
FOR OCTOBER 14
Vince Gallucci - Reading material Arctic Climate Feedbacks: Global Climate implications pages 5-16 and 54-68
Rich Zabel - Reading material Water allocation model COMPASS
The autumn quarter seminar will cover three current and important topics in quantitative ecology and resource management:
1) Climate change and water resources
2) Sustainable management of resources
3) Invasive species.
Introductory papers in each topic will be read and discussed in seminar meetings facilitated by small teams of QERM faculty. The goal is to explore the basic challenges and issues in each topic and demonstrate the interdisciplinary nature of the issues from the perspective of the QERM program.
Introductory Meeting (Sept 30)
Faculty
Jim Anderson Professor, College of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
Loveday Conquest Professor, College of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
Water and Climate (Oct. 7, 14, 21)
Faculty
Peter Guttorp Professor, Department of Statistics
Rich Zabel Research Scientist, Northwest Fisheries Science Center
Vince Gallucci Professor, Aquatic & Fishery Sciences
Nate Mantua Associate Professor, Aquatic & Fishery Sciences
William Calvin Professor School of Medicine
Web Resources on Water and Climate change
NY times Global Warming articles
Arctic Sea Ice News and Analysis
USGS Water Resource Information
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Papers
Climate change Science Compendium 2009
Feature article in Planetary Boundaries
Water allocation model COMPASS - Zabel
executive summary of the Washington Climate Change Impacts Assessment
Sustainable management (Oct. 28, Nov 4, 18)
Faculty
Ray Hilborn Professor Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
Sandor Toth Assistant Professor of Natural Resource Informatics
Web Resources on Sustainable Management
UN adaptation and sustainable development
Papers
Rapid worldwide depletion of predatory fish communities
Fisheries:Decline of Pacific tuna populations exaggerated?
Biomass, Size, and Trophic Status of Top Predators in the Pacific Ocean
Folly and fantasy in the analysis of spatial catch rate data
Finding the Efficient Frontier of a Bi-Criteria, Spatially Explicit, Harvest Scheduling Problem
Finding Efficient Harvest Schedules under Three Conflicting Objectives
Promoting Large, Compact Mature Forest Patches in Harvest Scheduling Models
Livestock's Long Shadow: environmental issues and options
Historical Warnings of Future Food Insecurity with Unprecedented Seasonal Heat
Invasive species (Nov. 25, Dec. 2, 9)
Faculty
Jennifer Ruesink Associate Professor Department of Biology
David Ford Professor of College of Forest Resources
Julian Olden Assistant Professor, Aquatic & Fishery Sciences
Web Resources on Invasive Species
National Invasive Species Information Center
Papers
Plant invasion across space and time
