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GLERL What's New: 1999
Great Lakes Environmental Research
Laboratory
Distinguished Scientist Seminar Series
Brian Fath
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Warnell School of Forest Resources
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia
"Integrated Environmental Assessment: Two Case Studies
from Water Resources and Network Analyses"
Location: Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
2205 Commonwealth Blvd.
Ann Arbor, MI 48105-2945
Date: Tuesday, November 16th, 1999
Time: 1:00-2:00 pm
Room: 105 (Main Conference Room)
ABSTRACT: Integrated Environmental Assessment is an analytic framework that facilitates linkages and communication among scientists, decision-makers, and stakeholders in order to guide resource managers and scientific research. This approach is being used in a water resources study of Lake Lanier, Georgia. Scientific hypotheses are encapsulated in a representative food web model of the lake ecosystem. Members of a local stakeholder group are actively engaged and their environmental concerns and preferences regarding the lake have been elicited through a mail survey. Survey data will be used to construct "behavior definitions" which are matched against model simulation results using a Monte Carlo analysis. Our objective is to identify model parameters which are key to reaching the behavior targets and to effectively communicate this information to decision-makers and stakeholders. In addition, network analysis, an input-output based assessment tool, can be used to identify and quantify direct and indirect influences and relations among system compartments. One property of this research, Network Synergism - the emergence of positive interactions, is demonstrated in both ecological and economic models.
For further information, please contact:
Steve Brandt
NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
2205 Commonwealth Blvd.
Ann Arbor, MI 48105-2945
734-741-2244
stephen.b.brandt@noaa.gov
Last updated: September 19, 2002 mbl