Short Courses

The deadline for registering for the short courses is Tuesday, February 24, 2004. Should your plans change, US-IALE 2004 Meeting Staff will allow you to cancel if you do so in accordance with our Cancellation Policy. US-IALE reserves the right to cancel any class for which the minimum registration is not reached. Updates on filled or cancelled courses will be posted on the US-IALE 2004 Meeting website.

Introduction to ArcGIS I

This class has been cancelled.

National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) - A Short Course

This class has been cancelled.

Ecological Complexity: an introduction to landscape ecologists

Tuesday, 30 March 2004 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
(Minimum 10 Maximum 40)
$40.00 per seat (Price includes afternoon nutrition break)
Instructor: Bai-Lian (Larry) Li (University of California at Riverside), Editor-in-Chief, Ecological Complexity (an international journal, Elsevier Science, www.elsevier.com/locate/ecocom)

Ecological complexity has become a newly emerging frontier of the 21st century ecological study, which our landscape ecologists have contributed significantly from a very beginning of its development. This half-day (3 hrs) short course is designed to introduce landscape ecologists on fundamental concepts and principles of ecological complexity and newest methodology developed in complex systems study. All materials will be presented in the context of landscape ecology with case studies in various landscapes such as Sevilleta LTER site, southern Texas, and northern Germany. We will emphasize a basic paradigm shift of systems thinking in complex ecology, emergent properties of nonlinear adaptive landscape system, spatio-temporal complexity and chaos, scale (scale invariance and covariance), hierarchy, cross-scale dynamics, and a statistical and nonlinear physics based holistic landscape ecology. New methods such as coupled map lattice, fractal kinetics of spatiotemporal dynamics, stochastic resonance, nonlinear thermodynamics-based Markovian model, multiscale entropy analysis, small-world, self-assembling of networks, and detecting noise-induced structures in spatiotemporal data will be introduced; we will focus on basic ideas and principles that underpin these methods and applications or potential applications in landscape ecology, not abstract mathematics. All participants will receive a free copy of the first issue of the journal Ecological Complexity.