Program

14 September - day 1

Morning - open to everyone

• Introduction of teachers and participants
• Introduction to Ecological Modelling and the Ecopath Research and Development Consortium
• Introduction to Ecopath, Ecosim, Ecospace
• The Ecopath model: general principles and data needed

Afternoon - open to everyone

• Introduction to Ecopath, Ecosim and Ecospace applications in Brazil
• Practice session - Presentations of participants’ models and questions
• Playtime

15 September - day 2

Morning - open to everyone

• Balancing Ecopath models
• Advanced features of Ecopath model, including the use of online databases and the EwE pedigree routine

Afternoon - local participants only

• Practice session - Exercise 1: Parameterization of Ecopath models
• Practice session - Exercise 2: Balancing Ecopath models
• Playtime

16 September - day 3

Morning – open to everyone

• Introduction to Ecosim
• Fitting models to time series of data in Ecosim

Afternoon – local participants only

• Practice session - Exercise 3: Ecosim model
• Practice session - Exercise 4: Fitting a model to time series
• Playtime

17 September - day 4

Morning - For all participants

• Introduction to the original Ecospace model
• Introduction to the habitat foraging capacity model
• Introduction to the spatial-temporal data framework

Afternoon – For local participants

• Practice session - Exercise 5: Developing an Ecospace model
• Practice session - Exercise 6: Connecting with online databases to parameterize EwE models
• Playtime

18 September - day 5

Morning - open to everyone

• Introduction to programming with Ecopath with Ecosim
• Practice session – Example 7: how to program with EwE
• Playtime

Afternoon - open to everyone

• General questions session