AMCS 2012 • ITHACA, NY •
schedule (PDF version)
Monday, June 11
- travel day - arrive Ithaca
Tuesday, June 12
- 8:00-8:55 -- catered breakfast
- 8:55-9:00 -- Daily welcome, introductions, logistics
- 9:00-12:00 -- Topic: Applications and Computational Approaches
- 9:00-10:00 - Plenary presentation: Fred Johnson - "Reconciling resilience thinking and a decision-theoretic approach to natural
resource management"
- 10:00 - 10:30am - David Smith, Jonathan Daily, Conor McGowan, Jim Nichols, John
Sweka, and Jim Lyons - "Evaluating some aspects of the framework for adaptive management of
Delaware Bay horseshoe crab
and red knots"
- 10:30-10:45 -- break
- 10:45-11:30 - Clint Moore, Jill Gannon, and Terry Shaffer -
"The native prairie adaptive management initiative: innovations, challenges, and process
ownership
- 11:30-12:30 - 11:30 - 12:00pm - Katriona Shea, Michael Tildesley, Michael Runge,
Christopher Fonnesbeck, and Matthew Ferrari -
"An adaptive management framework for control of infectious disease: foot and
mouth"
- 12:00-13:15 -- lunch
- 13:15-13:45 -- Jon Conrad - "Differential games in a stochastic fishery"
- 13:45-14:15 -- Jery Stedinger - "Dynamic Programming for Reservoir System Operation:
Computational Improvements and Descriptions of Uncertainty"
- 14:15-14:30 -- break
- 14:30-16:15 -- Topic: Solution framework for MDP
- 14:30-15:00 -- Krishna Pacifici, and Paul Fackler -
"Addressing structural and observational uncertainty in resource management"
- 15:00-15:45 - Paul Fackler - "A modeling and solution framework for MDPs"
- 15:45-16:15 - Paul Fackler, Krishna Pacifici, Julien Martin (Presenter), James Nichols,
and Carol
McIntyre -
"Application of POMDP to the adaptive management of hiking activities near Golden Eagles in
Denali"
- 16:00-20:00 -- appetizers & drinks at the Boatyard Grill
Wednesday, June 13
- 8.00-8:55 -- catered breakfast
- 8:55-9:00 -- daily welcome, introductions, logistics
- 9:00-12:00 -- Topic: Computational Methods
- 9:00-10:00 - Plenary presentation: Carla Gomes - "Computational
sustainability"
- 10:00-10:30 - Bistra Dilkina - "Optimal cost-effective conservation planning
for landscape connectivity"
- 10:30-10:45 -- break
- 10:45-12:00 - Discussion: - Problem classification and standardization of model
specification (Moderator - Paul Fackler)
- 12:00-13:15 -- lunch
- Topic: - Topics in Optimization
- 13:15-13:45 - Adrian Lopes and Jon Conrad
- "Poaching and the dynamics of a protected species"
- 1:45 - 2:15pm - Rich Woodward and David Tomberlin (Presenter) - "Robust
dynamic optimization and fisheries management"
- 14:15-14:45 - Michael Runge1 and Eve McDonald-Madden - "Triggering double-loop learning:
detecting the failure of a model set"
- 14:45-15:00 -- break
- 15:00-16:30 -- continued discussion on problem classification & model specification, and
advances in the science of adaptive management.
- 18:00-21:00 -- evening dinner cruise on Cayuga Lake
Thursday, June 14
- 8.00-8:55 -- catered breakfast
- 8:55-9:00 -- daily welcome, introductions, logistics
- 9:00-12:00 -- Topic: Challenges and applications in SDM/AM
- 9:00-9:30 -- Drew Tyre - "Beyond adaptive management: How uncertainty shapes
ecologists'
contribution to managing socio-ecological systems"
- 9:30-10:00 -- Kelly Robinson and Cecil Jennings - "Maximizing YOY spot Leiostomus
xanthurus
export from a South Carolina estuary: an evaluation of
coastal impoundment management alternatives via structured decision-making"
- 10:00-10:30 -- Michael Conroy, Andrea Goijman, Jeffrey Thompson, Maria Elena
Zaccagnini, Jaime Bernardos, Veronica Rusch - "Capacity building for structured decision
making and adaptive resource management in
Argentina"
- 10:30-10:45 -- break
- 10:45-11:15 -- Andrea Goijman, Michael Conroy, Rebecca Moore, Maria Elena
Zaccagnini -
"Application of SDM/ARM to balancing conservation of bird diversity with landowner values
in Enre Rios, Argentina"
- 11:15 - 11:45pm - Angela Romito, Michael Conroy, and James Peterson -
"Structured decision making as an approach for addressing interagency and
cross-jurisdictional
management challenges: two case studies involving the management of sea otters and brown bears
on federal lands in Alaska"
- 11:45-12:30 - wrap-up and roundtable discussion: SDM/AM challenges