2008 World Conference on Natural Resource Modeling

Warsaw, Poland, June 15-18, 2008

Scientific Program

The conference will take place in the Faculty of Forestry building #34 (please refer to the campus map under "Location" to the left) in the room 0/94.

The program is available in .pdf format here

Accompanying events

There are two accompanying events planned before and after the Conference. One is "Point Sampling Short Course" by John Bell and Kim Iles, June 11-13, and "GADA and BAI fitting" 5-day-Workshop by Chris Cieszewski, June 23-27.

Sunday 15 June, 2008

Evening
Registration and the icebreaker (IKAR hotel on the campus)

Monday 16 June, 2008

Morning session, moderator: Chris Cieszewski

9:00
Chris Cieszewski, Micha? Zasada
Introduction, welcome, logistics
9:30
Keynote speaker: Kim Iles
Walter Bitterlich
10:00
John Bell: History of the angle count sampling
10:30
Break
11:00
Guillaume Thérien: Critical height sampling for increment
11:30
Nick Smith: Sector sampling
12:00
Kim Iles: A geometric solution to the "nearest tree" estimator"
12:30
Lunch

Afternoon session, moderator: Kim Iles

14:00
Chris Cieszewski: Large area inventory with multiple data sources
14:30
Michal Zasada: Nationwide forest inventory projection in Poland
15:00
Rodney Beard: A dynamic model of renewable resource harvesting with Bertrand competition
15:30
Coffee break
16:00
Jaroslaw Socha: Using Topography and Geology for Modelling the Site Index of Picea abies in the West Carpathians, Poland
16:30
Mike Strub: Simultaniety Bias in a System of Individual Tree growth Equations

Tuesday 17 June, 2009

Morning session, moderator: Mike Strub

9:00
Keynote speaker: Oscar Garcia
Plant individual-based modelling: More than meets the eye
9:30
Krishna Paudel: A remote-sensing-based economic model of deforestation
10:00
Brandy Wiegers: Modeling the Hydraulics of Root Growth in Three-Dimensions with Internal Water Sources
10:30
Coffee break
11:00
Richard H. Moll: Calibration of Statistics Canada’s Physical Timber Asset Account using data visualization techniques
11:30
Mark Ambrose: Gypsy Moth Sex in the City: Modeling Costs and Losses
12:00
William Chivers: Modeling sub-patterns in the snowshoe hare and Canadian lynx population cycles: an individual-based approach
12:30
Lunch
14:00
Old Warsaw walk
20:00
Evening - banquet (Ikar)

Wednesday 18 June, 2008

Morning session, moderator: Mike Strub

9:00
Keynote speaker: Edwin Green
Natural Resource Modeling - The View From Forest Science
9:30
John Hearne: Sensitivity analysis of functions in ecosystem models
10:00
Harry K. Gorfine: Reef-scale modelling of abalone populations
10:30
Coffee break
11:00
Dimitrios Politikos: Population Dynamics of the Mediterranean Monk Seal in the National Marine Park of Alonissos, Greece
11:30
Francis Pantus: Catchment-to-Coast Management Strategy Evaluation
12:00
Krishna Paudel: Crime and Punishment: A Case of Wildlife Hunting Violation
12:30
Gillian Salerno: Forestry and Oil Exploration: An Agent-based Simulation and Study
13:00
Lunch
Afternoon
Departure to Kraków for the post-conference tour