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August 2009 - Forthcoming book Virtual Plankton Ecology
John Woods and Silvana Vallerga are co-authors of a forthcoming monograph Virtual Plankton Ecology. As each chapter becomes available in beta version it will added to the VPE Book page. Chapter One Principles of Virtual Plankton Ecology is now available. Readers are invited to send comments to j.woods@imperial.ac.uk
July 2009 - Congratulations to Melissa Saeland
Melissa Saeland has completed her undergraduated course in Computing and Oceanography at the University of Wales (Bango). She gained first class honours and the J. H. Gee award for outstanding achievement in computer related mathematics. The J.H.Gee Prize was awarded for her research project based on the Virtual Ecology Workbench. During the summer vacations of 2007 and 2008 Melissa used the VEW at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences as an intern (supervisor Dr Mike Lomas) funded by the UK Trustees of BIOS. Her project was to create a model plankton community with the principal species monitored in the BATS programme, and using that model to simulate the Bermuda plankton ecosystem. Melissa has been awarded an EPSERC studentship tenable at Southampton University Institute for Complexity in association with the National Oceanography Centre, which is located on the waterfront campus at Southampton University.
May 2008 - VPE Technical Report No. 8 documents LERM
LERM (Lagrangian Ensemble Recruitment Model) is the first LE model to include a dynamic population of carnivorous zooplankton, as well as two populations of top predators that prey on herbivores and carnivores, respectively. LERM is the first biological model created entirely on the VEW. VEW 3.3 added new functionality needed for LERM. LERM replaces WB as the baseline model for research in the Virtual Ecology group at Imperial College. This technical report serves as a template for the documentation of future biological models created on the VEW.
Coming soon
VPE Technical Report No. 9 will document a Virtual Ecosystem created at the Azores using LERM.
Scientific papers based on LERM will also be available at this website soon. They will report investigations of stability and predictability, fisheries recruitment, and the trophic cascade.
Click here to download LERM Documentation.
December 2007 - New VEW 3.3 Handbook Published
October 2007 - Prof. John Woods shares the Nobel Peace Prize, 2007.
The Nobel Peace Prize 2007 was awarded jointly to Al Gore, and to the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Prof. Woods shares this award as a member of IPCC, and the lead author of the pivotal chapter on modelling climate change in the first IPCC report, "Time-dependent greenhouse-gas-induced climate change": The IPCC Assessment. (Ch 6, p173-194, Cambridge University Press, 1990) - among the most significant and bold scientific and political ventures of our time.
October 2007 - Congratulations to Matteo Sinerchia
Matteo Sinerchia has successfully defended his Ph.D thesis: Testing Theories on Fisheries Recruitment. Click here to download his thesis.
