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Teaching Dynamic Modeling

Bruce Hannon along with other faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign teaches the following upper undergraduate and graduate level courses in dynamic spatial modeling:

GEOG 367: Dynamic Simulation of Natural Resource Problems
Examines the development of the physically based theories of scarcity and a comparison to the historical and most recent economic theories of scarcity of critical resources, especially energy, and their expected application in local, regional, national, and international situations.

GEOG 368: Biological Modeling
An interdisciplinary modeling course for students interested in dynamic system modeling of living processes. Each student will build a model by the end of the course. Learn to Model: time-varying response inputs, single population dynamics, plant dynamics, two-component systems, multiple species dynamic and ecosystem optimization.

GEOG 369: Spatial Ecosystem Modeling
Learn to model spatial dynamic ecosystems through work within a team of experienced modelers on a real ecosystem with already-collected data on a real world problem. Learn cellular modeling based on STELLA, a graphical programming technique, available on the Mac and Windows, the translation of methods of cellular models to a multicellular form that uses GIS-based maps for parameter setting, and the techniques needed to run the composite model on large supercomputers and to display the dyanmic results in a visual format.

GEOG 381: Modeling Earth and Environmental Systems
Students build and use models of climatic, hydrologic, geochemical, and human systems, explore the basic concepts of systems modeling, use models to test hypotheses, and find out about the assumptions and approximations that must be made in modeling. Models will be constructed using the STELLA modeling software on PCs. STELLA offers an intuitive approach to modeling, so that prior experience with computer modeling is not a prerequisite for this course.


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