Modelling Workshops

The UK Natural Environment Research Council has provided funding for a series of modelling workshops, covering travel and subsistence costs for up to 25 national and international scientists per workshop.

The purpose of these workshops will be to:-

• Review the status of current models and modelling systems with respect to current knowledge.
• Assess the availability datasets from for model testing and development.
• Consider emerging scientific issues and relevant policy drivers.
• Identify gaps in current model capability.
• Produce recommendations for future modelling (and observational) activities designed to address the identified gaps in understanding and capacity. These will be fed to the relevant UK and International program offices with a view to influencing the scope of funding programs.
• Identify synergies between research groups that may form the basis of subsequent funding bids.

Workshops

• Model validation, analysis and quantification of error.
  Feb 5-7, 2007. Summary, reports and contributions.
   
• The response of marine ecosystems to increasing levels of CO2.
  Feb 12-14, 2007. Summary, reports and contributions.
   
• Operational Biological Oceanography.
  Nov 5-7 2007. Details.
   
• Exploring the links between ocean-atmosphere interactions and DMS production.
  May 12-14 2008. Details.
   
• Bridging the gap between lower and higher trophic levels.
  February 10-12 2009. Details and registration
   

The three remaining ~3 day workshops are to be held in Plymouth, UK, during 2007-8 probably at the MBA resource centre. We aim to bring together modellers and experimentalists, established and younger researchers / students. We will welcome suggestions for program items and intend the workshops to be informal. To apply to attend a workshop click here