"Ecopath 25 years": conference and workshops

"Ecopath 25 years: conference and workshops" aimed to provide an overview of 25 years of progress using the Ecopath approach in different fields: fisheries management, ecosystem comparisons, spatial analyses, climate impacts, and ecosystem-based management as well as to introduce the new or under development exciting features. The gathering was intended to be an international scientific reunion on ecosystem modelling using the software Ecopath and Ecosim (EwE).

We hope you had a fruitful stay in Vancouver and a very exciting week at the “Ecopath 25 Years - Conference and Workshops” event!

The organizing committee

Conference: August 30 to September 1, 2009

Key speakers and participants gave oral and poster presentations. Please find here the program of the conference.

Selected photos, posters and presentations will be posted online before October 15, 2009, please keep checking this website for updates.

Workshops: August 26 to 28 & September 2 to 4, 2009

The first workshop proposed an introduction to the new version of the software EwE version 6. Following the conference, a series of specialized workshops addressed specific applications of the EwE6 software.

Selected workshop material will be posted online before October 15, 2009, please keep checking this website for updates.

Workshop I - August 26 to 28, 2009

This three-day introductory workshop introduced participants to the new version of EwE, version 6.

Workshop II series - September 2 to 3, 2009

Four, half-day specialized workshops introduced applications of EwE version 6. These workshops focused on spatial optimizations, economic modeling, interoperability and plug-ins, and EwE for decision support.

Extra workshop: EcoTroph - September 4, 2009

An extra workshop, EcoTroph, ran on September 4, 2009.