Robert Gooding-Townsend is a master’s student in
mathematical biology working under the supervision of Chris Bauch and Madhur Anand. Prior to his graduate work, he completed concurrent Bachelors’ of Knowledge Integration and Applied Mathematics at the University of Waterloo. His primary research area is
forest dynamics and models of land cover change. […]
Our next WICI Talk is Tuesday, February 24th with Dr. Derek Robinson, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at the University of Waterloo. He will be presenting a talk entitled, “Discovering the Themes of Complexity Science in Land Use Modelling.”
Please join us starting at 2:00pm in M3-2134 for coffee […]
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Speaker: Dr. Derek Robinson
Title: Discovering the Themes of Complexity Science in Land Use Modelling
Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 – 2-4pm
Location: M3-2134
A video recording of the talk can be found below.
Abstract
How humans use land and change what resides on land (e.g., vegetation) can have profound environmental impacts […]
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Speaker: Scott Heckbert, Ph.D.
Title: Agent-based modelling and GIS: applications to land use change and environmental modelling
Date: Monday, May 26, 2014 at 12:00 noon
Location: EV3-4412
A video of the talk can be found at the bottom of the page.
This presentation will demonstrate current applications using agent-based […]
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Speaker: Dr. Dendoncker, Director of Namur Research Group on Sustainable Development (NaGRIDD). Department of Geography, University of Namur, Belgium.
Title: Participatory Valuation and Modelling of Ecosystem Services under Land Use Change: Example from the VOTES project (Belgium) and Perspectives for Future Research
Date: Friday, June 1st, 2012
Category: Non-WICI Event
Speakers: Eric Lambin, Peter Deadman, Raymond Cabrera, and Christophe Le Page
Title: Land-Change Science Seminar
Date: Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Category: Seminar
Speaker #1: Professor Eric Lambin of the University of Louvain and Stanford University discusses the mechanisms through which economic globalization increasingly drives land use change and uses case studies to […]
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Speaker: Dawn Parker
Title: Market Activity, Landscaping Behavior, and Carbon Sequestration in Ex-Urban Landscapes
Date: Thursday, October 1, 2009
Category: Talk
Professor Dawn Park of the School of Planning at the University of Waterloo reports on a collaborative research project with the University of Michigan exploring land-use change and carbon sequestration in […]
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