The Island Digital Ecosystem Avatar (IDEA) Consortium: Simulating Coral Reefs, Mosquito-borne Diseases, and other Coupled Natural-Human Interactions
Islands are disproportionately affected by global change and epitomize the coastal zones where most of humanity lives. They serve as models for our common island home: planet Earth. The Island Digital Ecosystem Avatar (IDEA) Consortium is building use-oriented simulations (avatars) of entire systems, from genome to society, starting with Moorea and Tetiaroa in French Polynesia. The island avatar is a next generation social network harnessing collaborative intelligence locally and globally. It functions as a community-scale sustainability simulator modeling links and feedbacks between climate, environment, biodiversity, and human activities across coupled marine-terrestrial landscapes. The resulting knowledge is being used on Moorea and Tetiaroa to predict human and natural change at scales relevant to management/conservation actions, particularly with respect to coral reefs and the genetic control of mosquito disease vectors.
Date:
9 January 2017, 16:00
Venue:
Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details:
H O Beckit Room
Speaker:
Neil Davies (University of California Berkeley)
Organising department:
Oxford University Centre for the Environment
Organiser:
Jane Applegarth (University of Oxford, Oxford University Centre for the Environment)
Organiser contact email address:
jane.applegarth@eci.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Professor Yadvinder Malhi (University of Oxford)
Part of:
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests
Topics:
Booking required?:
Not required
Cost:
Free
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Jane Applegarth
