{"id":257,"date":"2009-04-14T22:01:16","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T02:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/?p=257"},"modified":"2009-04-14T22:01:16","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T02:01:16","slug":"agent-based-simulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/2009\/04\/agent-based-simulations\/","title":{"rendered":"Agent-based simulations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had an interesting conversation this afternoon with <a title=\"Brad Bass page at Environment Canada\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ec.gc.ca\/scitech\/default.asp?lang=En&amp;n=5DB4FABC-1\" target=\"_blank\">Brad Bass<\/a>. Brad is a prof in the Centre for Environment at U of T, and was one of the pioneers of the use of models to explore adaptations to climate change. His agent based simulations explore how systems react to environmental change, e.g. exploring population balance among animals, insects, the growth of vector-borne diseases, and even entire <a title=\"Regina Model Demo (on Vimeo)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/1296098\" target=\"_blank\">cities<\/a>.\u00a0One of his models is <a title=\"Cobweb project site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cobweb.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cobweb<\/a>, an open-source platform for agent-based simulations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s also involved in the <a title=\"CCCSN main page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cccsn.ca\/index-e.html\" target=\"_blank\">Canadian Climate Change Scenarios Network<\/a>, which takes outputs from the major climate simulation models around the world, and extracts information on the regional effects on Canada, particularly relevant for scientists who want to know about variability and extremes on a regional scale.<\/p>\n<p>We also talked a lot about educating kids, and kicked around some ideas for how you could give kids simplified simulation models to play with (along the line that <a title=\"Jon's blog post on climate education\" href=\"http:\/\/skoolr.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/story-so-far.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jon was exploring<\/a> as a possible project), to get them doing hands on experimentation with the effects of climate change. We might get one of our summer students to explore this idea, and Brad has promised to come talk to them in May once they start with us.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and Brad is also\u00a0an expert on green roofs, and will be demonstrating them to grade 5 kids at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trec.on.ca\/reeducation\/festival.html\">Kids World of Energy Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had an interesting conversation this afternoon with Brad Bass. Brad is a prof in the Centre for Environment at U of T, and was one of the pioneers of the use of models to explore adaptations to climate change. His agent based simulations explore how systems react to environmental change, e.g. exploring population balance among [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,27,57],"tags":[30,40,39,65,35,28,56,64,32,38],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260,"href":"https:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}