Faculty & Partners
Faculty
Roelof Boumans, PhD
Dr. Roelof Boumans received his doctorate degree in 1994 as a ecosystem ecologist at the Department of Oceanography and Coastal Systems at Louisiana State University. His dissertation focused on the material fluxes through estuaries and involved processing large datasets through field book and datalogger recording. He developed insight into estuarine hydrology and published reports on ecological consequences to altering hydrology. During a postdoctoral position at the Jackson Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire, Dr. Boumans was largely involved with developing a landscape model of the Great Bay estuary.
Dr. Boumans joined the Institute of Ecological Economics as an Associate Research Scientist in 1996. His work at ISEE focuses on processes from various ecosystems that take place at the landscape level within the Patuxent River watershed, and the development of landscape modeling protocol that largely makes use of computer technology to structure ecological data into a temporal and spatially relevant database structure.
Partners
Simulistics
Simulistics is a small entrepreneurial organization which works in close collaboration with several customers on research projects in the earth, environmental and life sciences. The understanding they have gained from this work of how models are created and used by a scientific community inspires the development of their general-purpose modelling software.
Simulistics develops and distributes Simile, modelling and simulation software for complex dynamic systems in the earth, environmental and life sciences. They use unique logic-based declarative modelling technology to represent the interactions in these systems in a clearly structured, visually intuitive way.
Gund Institute for Ecological Economics
The Mission of the Gund Institute is to pursue research, education and design that addresses pressing ecological, economic, and social issues within an integrated framework.
An international leader in the field, the Gund Institute works collaboratively with stakeholders throughout the world to expand the boundaries of ecological economics theory and practice.
Ongoing activities include:
- Developing scenarios for comparing alternative future from local to global.
- Translating ecological services valuation to inform policy and improve market efficiency.
- Identify tools and techniques that bring communities together to define and create a sustainable and equitable future fro themselves.
- Designing internet-based applications to share ecological and economic information with the public via the world wide web.
- Expanding conventional interpretations of the financial bottom line for business and government to include natural, social, and human capital essential to human wellbeing.
