MAR 524 - Marine Ecosystem Modeling

3 credits
Provides instruction, demonstration and exercises in modeling methods for simulating biophysical interactions in marine science. Principals and methods are developed in lecture and applied through homework examples using the software package Matlab. Topics include stability and analysis of population models, zero-dimensional biochemical models, stage-based biochemical models, and individual-based coupled biophysical models (IBMs). Students will devise, implement, and test their own models in class projects.