Winter Quarter 2009
Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) 760 (Call # 21788-4)

Ecosystem Modeling

 

Credit hours: 5                                     Time: Mondays, Wednesdays 6:00 to 8:30 PM

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Syllabus (PDF)
Odum Energy Language <=> STELLA (PDF)

Lectures

  • Introduction to Course Objectives:
    Systems Ecology and Systems Thinking / Examples of Models
  • (PDF)
  • Energy System Diagramming/STELLA Modeling Methodology (PDF)
  • Ecological Processes (PDF)
  • Ecosystem Models (PDF)
  • Spatial Modeling (PDF)
  • Lectures: Models review (PDF) and EcoEng Examples (PDF)
  1. Overview of the model types available for development of ecological models (PDF)
  2. Development of a structurally dynamic model for forecasting the effects of restoration
    of Lake Fure, Denmark (PDF)

 

Labs:

6. Aquatic metabolism as an indicator of the ecological effects of hydrologic pulsing in flow-through wetlands (PDF)
Web sites for downloading software  
ChipmunkBasic for Mac OS X  
GRASS 0.91  

Student Presentations:

February 9 - Students Literature Review Presentations
GROUP I
1) Modelling the energy balance of an anaerobic digester fed with cattle manure and renewable energy crops (PDF)
2) An integrated approach to improving fossil fuel emissions scenarios with urban ecosystem studies (PDF)
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5) A Study of GIS-SD based OF temporal-spatial modeling of water quality in water pollution accidents (PDF)
6) Nitrogen transformation in horizontal subsurface flow constructed wetlands I: Model development (PDF)
7) Design of a constructed wetland for wastewater treatment in a Sicilian town and environmental evaluation using the emergy analysis (PDF)
 
February 16 - Students Literature Review Presentations
GROUP II
1) Simulation of NO and N2O emissions from a spruce forest during a freeze/thaw event using an N-flux submodel from the PnET-N-DNDC model integrated to CoupModel (PDF)
2) Importance of jumbo squid Dosidicus gigas (Orbigny, 1835) in the pelagic ecosystem of the central Gulf of California (PDF)
3) Fire, Resprouting and Variability: A Recipe for Grass-Tree Coexistence in Savanna (PDF)
4) Latitudinal Characteristics of Below- and Above-ground Biomass of Typha: a Modelling Approach (PDF)
5) Formation of particulate sulfur species (sulfate and methanesulfonate) during summer over the Eastern Mediterranean: A modelling approach (PDF)
6) Model-data synthesis of diurnal and seasonal CO2 fluxes at Niwot Ridge, Colorado (PDF)
7) Watershed land use and aquatic ecosystem response: Ecohydrologic approach to conservation policy (PDF)
8) Using monthly weather statistics to generate daily data in a SWAT model application to West Africa (PDF)

March 9 - Students Model Presentations

March 11 - Students Model Presentations

2008-2009
Olentangy River Wetland Research Park, The Ohio State University