Associate
Professor, School of Oceanography
Lectures: Wednesday 1:30-2:50
Computer Labs: Friday 1:30-2:50
Location: Ocean Sciences Building 111
(Spatial Analysis Lab)
Office Hours: Wednesday 3:00 and by
appointment
Contact Info: random@u.washington.edu
Course website: http://courses.washington.edu/ocean539/OCEAN539_B/index_539b.html
Week
1 (March 31-April 4) Introduction to modeling population dynamics
April
2 Lecture: Preliminaries
April
4 Computer Lab: Stability,
cycling & chaos
Week
2 (April 7-11) Models of multiple, interacting populations
April
9 Lecture: Competition,
coexistence & exclusion
April
11 Computer Lab: Time series
& phase planes
Week 3 (April 14-18) Scaling
and non-dimensional numbers; Weekly appointment with DG
April
16 Lecture: What are
non-dimensional numbers and what are they good for?
ˆ ONE OR MORE PROPOSED THEMES FOR
MAJOR PROJECTS DUE
April
18 Computer Lab: Identifying
dominant mechanisms with dimensional analysis
Week
4 (April 21-25) Age- and stage-structured populations I
April
23 Lecture: Conserved
quantities, fluxes & conservation equations
ˆ PRELIMINARY REFERENCE LIST FOR
PROJECTS DUE
April
25 Computer Lab: Age and
stage-structured PDE population models
Week
5 (April 28-May 2) Weekly appointment with DG
April 28-29 Appointments with DG
ˆ May 2 PROJECT PROPOSALS DUE
Week
6 (May 5-9) Age- and stage-structured populations II; Weekly appointment with DG
April
30 Lecture: Matrix population
models: characteristics and solutions
May
2 Computer Lab: Age and
stage-structured matrix population models
Week
7 (May 12-16); Models of movement and spatial dynamics; Weekly appointment with
DG
May
14 Lecture: Mathematical
descriptions of spatial heterogeneity and movement; randomness and determinism
in ecological dynamics
ˆ May 16 PRESENTATION OF PROJECT OUTLINES
Week
8 (May 19-23) Weekly appointment(s) with DG
Week
9 (May 26-30) Weekly appointment(s) with DG
Week
10 (June 2-June 6) DG out of town
Week
11 (June 9-13) Final Project Presentations
ˆ June 9 FINAL PROJECT PRESENTATIONS