Workshops on ecological modeling

A 4-day training workshop on “Simulation techniques for building multi-trophic level marine ecosystem models: Examples using NEMURO and NEMURO.FISH” for Ph.D-level Korean scientists was held January 29–February 1, 2008, at the National Fisheries Research and Development Institute (NFRDI) in Busan, Korea. The workshop was co-sponsored by NFRDI, PICES and the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service. Dr. Bernard A. Megrey delivered a series of lectures to 32 students from Pukyong National University, Seoul National University, NFRDI-Marine Environmental Lab-Pusan, NFRDI-South Sea Lab-Yeosu and NFRDI-Jeju Island. Drs. Megrey (U.S.A.) and Jae Bong Lee (Korea) coordinated the project.

A 3-day training workshop on “Techniques for building multi-trophic level marine ecosystem models, with special emphasis on NEMURO and NEMURO.FISH” was held April 26–28, 2007, at the Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste (CIBNOR) laboratory, La Paz, B.C.S., Mexico. The workshop focused on general methods to simulate ecosystem mechanisms and processes, and specifically covered in detail the NEMURO lower trophic level ecosystem model process equations and the NEMURO extension called NEMURO.FISH, which links tropho-dynamically lower trophic-level zooplankton abundance to upper trophic-level fisheries bioenergetics and population dynamics models. The summary of this workshop was published in PICES Press (Vol. 15, No. 2).