course is about models of ecological processes that control animal
populations. This year, two courses are being taught together,
Modelling Ocean Ecology (P6324) and Modelling Environmental Physics (P4340).
There will be some difference in material, and expectations, for
those students registered in one course or the other.
We will develop basic ecological ideas with a focus on
age and stage structure representation. We will then talk about
some simplified physical models, primarily for application to the ocean,
of the circulation and vertical structure of the ocean. We will
cover one-dimensional models of vertical mixing, advection-diffusion
models and shallow water models of circulation. We will cover the
basic numerical techniques that underlie these models. Using Matlab, we
will couple the biological and physical models to explore the role of
spatial structure on ecological dyanmics.
We will meet in room C-3067 on Wednesday from 3:00 to 5:00 PM. The text for
the course will be Introduction ot the Modelling of Marine Ecosystems by
W. Fennel and T. Neumann. Once the course starts, some class notes,
assignments, tests, solutions, papers to read, Matlab scripts,
odds and ends will be posted on this page.
The outline used for a previous incarnation of the course was
