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A Look at the Plenary Talks at MPE18

A Look at the Plenary Talks at MPE18

The second SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Planet Earth will take place this September in Philadelphia, Pa.

Optimizing the Sustainable Harvest of Timber and Non-Timber Forest Products

Optimizing the Sustainable Harvest of Timber and Non-Timber Forest Products

Orou Gaoue presented a model that optimizes nonlethal NTFP harvest and lethal timber harvest in tropical forests at MPE18.

Viability Theory Addresses Sustainability and Social Issues

Viability Theory Addresses Sustainability and Social Issues

At MPE18, Pedro Gajardo described use of viability theory to tackle social problems, such as epidemiology and...

Improving Ecosystem-based Harvest of the European Anchovy

Improving Ecosystem-based Harvest of the European Anchovy

Mahir Demir used a spatial food chain model to investigate harvest strategies for anchovy fisheries on the Black Sea...

Network Modeling to Study Sea Ice Permeability

Network Modeling to Study Sea Ice Permeability

Sea ice permeability is affected by extracellular polymeric substances secreted by algae that inhabit ice.

Studying Frazil-ice Dynamics with Population Models

Studying Frazil-ice Dynamics with Population Models

At MPE18, David Rees Jones described continuum models of a population of ice crystals to better understand frazil...

Mathematical Model Optimizes Preemptive Cholera Vaccination in Cameroon

Mathematical Model Optimizes Preemptive Cholera Vaccination in Cameroon

At MPE18, Michael Kelly presented a mathematical model to optimize oral cholera vaccination placement in Cameroon.

Modeling Organisms Behind Harmful Algal Blooms

Modeling Organisms Behind Harmful Algal Blooms

University of Delaware researcher Nicholas Russell uses agent-based mathematical models to predict and analyze how...

Compartmental Model Exposes Reality of the U.S. Opioid Epidemic

Compartmental Model Exposes Reality of the U.S. Opioid Epidemic

Christopher Strickland presented a sobering model of prescription opioid addiction and treatment during MPE18.