ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
On August 8th Dr. Brook Herman, Iris Foxfoot, and Robbie Sliwinski co-hosted a workshop on the recent advances in Floristic Quality Assessment (FQA) at the Ecological Society of America’s Annual meeting in Portland, Oregon. The first half of the workshop included 5 flash talks from professors and students at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and University of California, Davis. The second portion of the workshop included an introductory presentation where Dr. Herman discussed ERDC’s recent efforts to certify regional FQA models in coordination with ECO-PCX, followed by a 30-minute interactive demonstration on the new FQA calculator lead by Ms. Foxfoot. As a result of this effort, USACE districts will be able to rapidly deploy FQA assessments and analyses throughout the Nation.
EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES INSTITUTE AND COMMUNITY SURFACE DYNAMICS MODELING SYSTEM
Iris Foxfoot attended the Earth Surface Processes Institute (ESPIn) in Boulder, Colorado. The objective was to create an educational lab for future learning opportunities.
She was then joined by Candice Piercy and Emily Russ for the Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System (CSDMS) annual meeting, where they presented posters on our GenVeg and Oyster Reef projects.
Todd Swannack and Candice Piercy are co-chairs for CSDMS’s Ecosystem Dynamics Focus Research Group.
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ECOLOGICAL MODELLING (ISEM) GLOBAL CONFERENCE 2023
Drs. Todd Swannack, Emily Russ, and Ms. Carra Carrillo of the ERDC Environmental Laboratory represented the Integrated Ecological Modeling Team (EcoMod) at the International Society of Ecological Modelling Global Conference 2023 in Toronto, Canada on May 2-5. Nearly 300 Ecological Modelers, representing countries across six continents, convened for this conference for the first time since 2019 after the conference planned for 2021 was postponed due to COVID. Each team member presented novel research being developed by EcoMod, including the 1) development of a Generalized Vegetation Model for applications across a variety of habitats, 2) a coupling framework and demonstration that integrates hydrodynamic, geomorphic, and ecological models for a comprehensive marsh model, and 3) considerations for data collecting and parameterizing processes-based integrated engineering and ecological models from long term field studies.
