2010 World Conference on Natural Resource Modeling

Helsinki, Finland, from June 16 to June 19, 2010

Student presentation competition

For a number of years the board members of the journal Natural Resource Modeling and of the Resource Modeling Association have been awarding prizes to the students presenting outstanding papers at the annual conference. This year three students each received prizes of 100 Euros:

• Xiaozi Liu, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration: "Global Warming and International Fishery Management: Does Anticipation of Temperature Change Matter?"
• Hao Ye, Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego: "Comprehensive Incentives for Reducing Chinook Salmon Bycatch in the Bering Sea Pollock Fleet: Individual Tradable Encounter Credits."
• Fabian Zimmermann, University of Bergen: "Establishing an Optimal Harvest Feedback Rule for Fish Stocks under Consideration of Size-dependent Effects."

Steve McKelvey (left) and Catherine Roberts (right) with student award winners Fabian Zimmerman, Xiaozi Liu, and Hao Ye.