2007 World Conference on Natural Resource Modeling

Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA, June 19-22, 2007

Scientific Program

The conference began with an evening reception on Tuesday, June 19th, 2007 and closed in the late afternoon of Friday, June 22nd, 2007.

The following information, including talk abstracts, is available in the following document: RMA 2007 Program

Wednesday June 20, 2007

7:00am - 8:30am
Registration Desk open (if you are speaking, upload your presentation here)
7:45am
Breakfast in Dining Hall of the Inn (food available until 8:15)
8:30am
Welcome and Announcements
8:45am
Keynote speaker: Marc Mangel
Olin College Keynote Address: Natural Resource Modeling in the 21st Century: The Certainty of Uncertainty. Introduction by Rollie Lamberson.
10:00am
Coffee Break
10:30am
RMA Keynote Address: Colin Clark
Individual quotas -- the only hope for successful fisheries management?. Introduction by Rollie Lamberson
11:45am
Lunch in Dining Hall at the Inn (food available until 12:15)
Student Table: Making the most of your conference
RMA Board Table: informal board meeting over lunch
1:00pm
Student After Lunch Program (parlor, Inn): Maximize your poster session!
Afternoon Session Chair: Jason Link
1:00pm
William Chivers, The University of Newcastle, Australia: Resource-driven herding-like behavior in a parsimonious individual-based model of producer-herbivore behavior.
1:30pm
Olli Tahvonen, Finnish Forest Research Institute: Optimal harvesting of age-structured fish populations
1:30pm
RMA Board Meeting (Union)
1:50pm
Nick Sanchez, College of the Holy Cross, MA: The Political Economy of Pastoral Policy Failure in sub-Sahara Africa
2:10pm
John Hearne, RMIT University, Australia: Cattle to Kangaroos - modelling the transition
2:30pm
Rucheng Tian, Univ. of Massachusetts Darmouth: Analysis on the efficiency of fishery closed area as scallop larval replenishment sources on Georges Bank by using Lagrangian trajectory simulation
2:50pm
Mihaela Predescu, Bentley College: Difference Equations Techniques for Understanding the Dynamics of Ecological Systems
3:30pm
Poster Session and refreshments.
Jen Lynch from Wiley-Blackwell Publishing will be at this session. The RMA is considering moving our journal Natural Resource Modeling over to Wiley-Blackwell from the Rocky Mountain Math Consortium. She is here to show us some of the journals that they publish and to answer our questions.
5:30pm
Lobster Bake in Dining Hall at the Inn
7:30pm
Jim Scott concert in the Tabernacle

Thursday June 21, 2007

7:00am - 8:30am
Registration Desk open (if you are speaking, upload your presentation here)
7:45am
Breakfast in Dining Hall of the Inn (food available until 8:15)
8:45am
FIA Keynote Address: Alan Ek
The USDA Forest Service Great Northern Research Station - Modeling for Resource Analysis, Planning, and Environmental Review. Introduction by Greg Amacher
10:00am
Coffee Break
Morning Session Chair: Krishna Paudel
10:30am
Jeffrey P. Prestemon, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station: Models of Wildland Arson and Other Crimes: co-determination, prediction, and long-run temporal dynamics
10:50am
Andrew J. Lister, USDA Forest Service, Forest Inventory & Analysis Unit: Use of Space Filling Curves to Select Sample Locations in Natural Resource Monitoring Studies
11:10am
Steve McKelvey, Saint Olaf College, MN: Predicting Movement of Nursery Hosts Using a Linear Network Model
11:45am
Lunch in Dining Hall at the Inn (food available until 12:15)
Student Table: Opportunities in Industry & Government
Afternoon Session Chair: John Hearne
1:00pm
Keith R Criddle, University of Alaska Fairbanks: Optimal Strategic Behavior in a Duopoly Model with Two Markets or What Should an 800 lb. Gorilla do When it Meets King Kong?
1:20pm
Robert McKelvey, University of Montana: A Multinational Marine Fisheries Management Model: A Strategic Perspective
1:40pm
Leif Kristoffer Sandal, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration: Optimal Feedback Harvest Policies: With and without explicit species interaction for Cod and Capelin
2:00pm
Branka Valcic, University of Alaska Fairbanks: The Economics of Spatial Choice and Displacement: Case Study of the Oregom Bottom Trawl Groundfish Fishery
2:20pm
Haoran Pan, CEMARE, University of Portsmouth: Computable General Equilibrium Modelling for Regional Fisheries
2:40pm
H. Moustahfid, Northeast Fisheries Science Center: Expanded logistic production model to account for predation-prey interactions: an application that partitions mortality and yield for longfin squid.
3:00pm
Geoff Cowles, School for Marine Science and Technology, Umass-Dartmouth: FVCOM: An Integrated System for Coastal Ocean Ecosystem Modeling
3:30pm
Doug Plante, The Climate ProjectSpecial Presentation on Climate Change with refreshments
4:45pm
Buses depart for transport to Sunset Cruise
8:30pm
Pizza party at the Inn
9:00pm
Diane L. Beres will show her Killer Whale Educational Video

Friday June 22, 2007

7:00am - 8:30am
Registration Desk open (if you are speaking, upload your presentation here)
7:45am
Breakfast in Dining Hall of the Inn (food available until 8:15)
8:45am
Keynote Address: Greg Amacher
Uncertainty and Forest Resources. Introduction by Catherine Roberts
10:00am
Coffee Break
Morning Session Chair: Keith Criddle
10:30am
Chris Cieszewski, University of Georgia: Evolution of “Self-referencing Models” in forest biometrics
10:50am
Krishna Paudel, Louisiana State University: A Dynamic Simulation Model of Formosan Subterranean Termite Infestation and Control under Alternative Treatment Regimes
11:10am
Kenneth S. Lyon, Utah State University: Analysis of Pesticide Resistance in a Two Sector Neoclassical Growth Model
11:45am
Lunch in Dining Hall at the Inn (food available until 12:15)
Student Table: Academic Research Program Development
1:00pm
Student After Lunch Program (parlor, Inn): Opportunities in RMA and Career Development
Afternoon Session Chair: Karl Beres
1:00pm
Dvora Hart, NOAA/Northeast Fisheries Science Center: When do marine reserves increase fishery yield?
1:20pm
Rollie Lamberson, Humboldt State University, CA: Maintaining Diversity in an Artificially Propagated Population
1:40pm
Doug Kinzey, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of WA: Same System, More Data: Comparing Population Features Estimated from Single-species and Multi-species Fisheries Models
2:00pm
Francis Pantus, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research: Healthy Waterways Management Strategy Evaluation: A catchment-to-coast integrative science support framework for adaptive management
2:20pm
Eva G. Abal, South East Queensland Healthy Waterways Partnership: Healthy Waterways-Healthy Catchments, An integrated research/management partnership to secure the future of waterways and catchments in South East Queensland, Australia
2:40pm
Closing Remarks