- fishbase API discussions continue
some discussion / work on rfigshare continues (As Karthik writes comprehensive test suite, yay).
- Possible ontological term for simulated data? modeling and simulation operation looking for example using this term now…
Moore DDD investigators, full call
.@NOAA gives a glimpse of what the future of scipub could be w/ web native format for this peer-reviewed report: https://t.co/NCireU39DY
ASN talk
Working on ASN talk (primarily introduction), again.
grand challenges of global change, consequences for ecosystems and the services they provide, economies, and biodiversity.
To manage these things, we need some understanding of how they behave, and how they respond to our management options. We need a model
When data is unavailable, a mechanistic model is the best thing. When mechanisms are unavailable, the data is the best thing…
Classical modeling approaches alone won’t work. (But they should still help guide what we do!)
This amount of complexity, this amount of data, would require too many parameters. we never estimate all of them. uncertainty is too large.
Stop trying to shove all the data into a handful of parameters. or an army of parameters.
management needs non-parametric approaches for decision making.