Engagement

This page is for linkages between STEEMI and the wider community. This term is deliberately left pretty broad. It includes other student initiatives, Open Science projects, and various ecological and environmental modelling initiatives, but is not limited to these. Do feel free to add other links, and indeed to expand my list of examples in the previous sentence.

Short items can be included in this page; longer ones can be given their own page.

Integrated Environmental Modelling: iemHUB and CIEM (the Community of Practice for IEM)

"Integrated modeling encompasses a broad range of approaches and configurations of models, data and assessment methods to describe and analyze complex environmental problems, often in a multi-media and multi-disciplinary manner.”

See this page for Integrated Environmental Modelling activities that we can get involved in.

The Open Science group in the Open Knowledge Foundation

The Open Knowledge Foundation aims to "build tools and communities to promote open knowledge around the world", where Open Knowledge is defined as "knowledge that people are free to use, re-use and distribute without legal, technological or social restrictions". The Open Science group is concerned with applying these principles and approaches within science. It originally focussed on opening up scientific data, but has recently broadened its remit to cover all aspects of open science, including activities such as Citizen Science.

Our aims - to engage volunteers in making ecological and environmental models widely accessible - clearly falls within this scope.

See this page for Open Science activities that we can get involved in.

The Systems Ecology initiative

Systems Ecology (thinking about ecological systems as systems) flourished in the 1970s. It had two main streams: groups constructing large (and unwieldy) simulation models of particular biomes (most notoriously, in the International Biological Programme, or IBP); and theoreticians analysing the mathematical properties of relatively simple (not to say simplistic) ecological models. The term acquired a some what unsavoury image, and both the term itself and the undertaking of systems ecology both fell out of favour. However, there is a resurgence of recognition that we need some sort of whole-systems approach if we are to tackle the problems facing the world, and over the last year or so a momentum has developed to explore just what the New Systems Ecology should be like and to promote a renewed interest in the approach.

See this page for Systems Ecology activities that we can get involved in.