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SUMMER 2024 NEWSLETTER

August 26, 2024

In this issue:

iEMSs 2026 in University College Dublin (UCD) Dublin, Ireland

We are delighted to announce that the 13th iEMSs conference will be convened by David Ayala-Cabrera and Soumyabrata Dev at University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland.


Dr David Ayala-Cabrera is an Assistant Professor at UCD, with a focus on civil engineering and environmental modelling. His research is dedicated to advancing sustainable infrastructure and improving water resource management.
Dr Soumyabrata Dev is an Assistant Professor at UCD, specialising in machine learning, computer vision, and remote sensing. His work is at the forefront of applying artificial intelligence to address pressing global challenges, including climate change and environmental monitoring.

UCD is Ireland’s largest university, blending over 160 years of history with modern facilities. The conference venue will be O’Reilly Hall within the main campus within Dublin City. Dublin is well connected to direct routes from Europe and North America and the city is well-served by public transportation. The conference location will offer a good range of accommodation options ranging from university halls to near-by hotels.

We anticipate that Dublin and Ireland will be an attractive destination for Society members. The Irish are world renowned for their hospitality and Dublin is a city of contrasts, blending historic charm with modern sophistication.

Conference dates are yet to be confirmed (our preferred dates are waitlisted) but will be in late June or July. Please look out for an announcement soon!

We look forward to seeing you in Dublin!

iEMSs 2024 at Michigan State University in East Lansing, USA

From 23 to 27 June 2024, we gathered on the Michigan State University (MSU) campus in East Lansing to hold our 12th biennial conference with the overarching motto “Addressing Global Environmental Challenges Through Intelligent Modelling”. Our MSU colleagues had set up a great event with short connections between the meeting rooms and accommodation, and we were delighted to welcome more than 180 participants from 21 countries. On Sunday evening, we gathered for early registration and an icebreaker reception in the lovely outdoor grounds of the Kellogg Centre, and on Monday morning, we formally opened the conference with welcoming words from the MSU President and the Director of AgBioResearch, followed by a very engaging keynote presentation by Whitney Gravelle, President and member of the Executive Council of the Bay Mills Indian Community. Whitney focused on the most pressing environmental topics in Michigan and beyond from the perspective of an Indigenous community and the role that environmental science and modelling can play in finding solutions to these challenges.

Following a busy day of parallel sessions and workshops, we gathered for an opening reception. For the plenary session on Tuesday, we welcomed Barbara Robson, Leader of the Tropical Marine Water Quality and Impacts team at the Australian Institute of Marine Science, talking about ‘Assessing model “fitness for purpose” in the context of long-term change’. After a further set of parallel sessions and workshops, the iEMSs committee on Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion met, and conference participants had the opportunity to meet the editors of SESMO and Environmental Modelling & Software to ask questions or discuss particular topics.

Our Wednesday was opened by another excellent keynote speaker, Mariana Rufino, Chair of Livestock Systems at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. She elaborated on the topic of “Smart Grazing: digital tech and models to improve the sustainability of livestock” and gave us her insights into the role of environmental software and modelling in agriculture, with a wider view of current challenges. After more sessions and workshops, we all gathered at the MSU Football Stadium, home of the Spartans, for our banquet and used this occasion to honor our awardees of Fellowships, Early Career Research Excellence prizes and the Biennial Medals, which had been selected as usual in the odd year (Fellowships) and earlier in 2024 (ECREs and Medals). Here, we also announced that iEMSs 2026 will tentatively be held in Dublin, Ireland, with details yet to be finalized.

Our final day, Thursday, started without a plenary session, and after several more parallel sessions and workshops, we gathered for a joint lunch and presented the awards for the best student presentations before closing the 2024 iEMSs biennial conference.

#OSIRIS Survey on Computational Reproducibility

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Elevate science by taking part in the #OSIRIS survey on computational reproducibility!

The EU-funded OSIRIS project aims to provide evidence-based solutions to support reproducibility in the scientific process. 

Computational reproducibility is an important aspect of the work. Considering the rapid development of digitalization, this survey aims to point out interesting details about recent practices, issues and challenges.

Researchers of the environmental modelling community are invited to contribute to the important topic of science reproducibility by filling the survey and by providing their views and insights.

Survey is available here: https://onlinekutatas.uni-mate.hu/index.php/617368?lang=en

Open until the end of Sept 2024.

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SPRING 2024 NEWSLETTER 2

May 28, 2024

In this issue:

iEMSs Elections: Vote by 28 May 2024

Please cast your votes by May 28th midnight CEST.

Use this form:  https://iemss.org/home/elections2024/

As a reminder: 

Elections Timeline

March 8th – Circulate Information Letter # 1 to membership
March 15th – Call for nominations opens
April 22nd – Closing date for nominations
May 5th – Open the online form for vote casting
May 28th – Closing date for election votes
June 10th – Finalize results of elections
June 26th – Announcement of the election results at the Biennial Conference in Michigan and on the iEMSs website

iEMSs REGISTRATION – Regular Registration ends 2 June 2024

Registration for the event is now open. Regular registration ends 2 June 2024You can register by visiting: https://events.anr.msu.edu/iEMSs/. Registration includes the iEMSs 2 year membership fee, program materials, and several meals and beverages throughout the event. An outline of the membership fees are below:

Professional Online Registration

  • Regular Registration: US$995 (27 April 2024 to 2 June 2024)
  • Late Registration: US$1195 (3 June 2024 to 19 June 2024)

Student Online Registration

  • Regular Registration: US$595 (27 April 2024 to 2 June 2024)
  • Late Registration: US$795 (3 June 2024 to 19 June 2024)

To learn more or register visit: https://conference.iemss.org/

SPRING 2024 NEWSLETTER

March 14, 2024

In this issue:

iEMSs 2024 Biennial Conference –

Abstract submissions extended to 19 April 2024

Call for Abstracts for iEMSs 2024, abstracts are currently being accepted. Deadline for submission has been extended to 19 April 2024! Submit Abstracts here:
https://proceedings.iemss.org/index.php/2024/about/submissions

Session convenors: please assess all abstracts as they are submitted.

To enable travel decisions based on an accepted submission, please consider submitting your abstracts as soon as possible.

As a quick reminder and background: the iEMSs Board and Office have decided to move to a model with extended abstracts (max. 2 pages including references) only. This is because there is substantial additional effort required to manage the review process and to ensure that conference proceedings were edited and made available online open access in an acceptable amount of time. Download figures for full conference papers, and the major hurdles of getting proceedings and full papers of a comparatively smaller conference indexed in Web of Science or Scopus did not justify that effort. In addition, we are publishing SESMO, our full open access journal, and edit Environmental Modelling and Software, which provide excellent outlets for full manuscripts which may emerge from iEMSs biennial conferences. Specific communications around opportunities for special issues and general submissions to both journals in the context of iEMSs 2024 as an excellent venue for publishing full manuscripts will be made in due course.

We will gather feedback after the 2024 conference and report back to the new Office and Board to be elected next year to review this approach in time for the 2026 conference and beyond.

Secondly, after working with several different conference management and abstract handling systems over the years, we have decided to invest some efforts in setting up the Open Journal System (OJS), which is used as well to publish SESMO. Along with setting up a persistent conference website as part of the iEMSs domain, the plan is to trial OJS for the 2024 conference, gather feedback and learning points, and if all goes well, we will go with this setup for all future conferences. This will have several benefits, including the ease of generating open access proceedings directly in the iEMSs online presence and close to, if not even before the actual conference. In addition, it would give abstract authors, session organisers and stream convenors the same user experience every time, without the need to adapt to a new system again and again.

We will be working with session organisers and stream convenors as we run this new setup for a first time in the run up to June. We may hit a bump or two and experience some hiccups, but the potential advantages operating our own setup will streamline our conference organization in the future and benefit local organisers and scientific committees going forward.

iEMSs REGISTRATION – Early Bird extended to 26 April 2024

Registration for the event is now open. You can register by visiting: https://events.anr.msu.edu/iEMSs/. Registration includes the iEMSs 2 year membership fee, program materials, and several meals and beverages throughout the event. An outline of the membership fees are below:

Professional Online Registration

  • Early Bird Registration: US$795 (until 26 April 2024)
  • Regular Registration: US$995 (27 April 2024 to 2 June 2024)
  • Late Registration: US$1195 (3 June 2024 to 19 June 2024)

Student Online Registration

  • Early Bird Registration: US$395 (until 26 April 2024)
  • Regular Registration: US$595 (27 April 2024 to 2 June 2024)
  • Late Registration: US$795 (3 June 2024 to 19 June 2024)

To learn more or register visit: https://conference.iemss.org/

iEMSs Elections

Elections Committee is holding elections to constitute a new Office and Board according to the Bylaws Articles V, VI and VII.

 Positions

The following positions are open for nominations:

(up to) 7 members of iEMSS Office

  • 1 iEMSs President;
  • 1 iEMSs Secretary;
  • 1 iEMSs Treasurer;
  • 4 iEMSs Vice-Presidents.

The iEMSs Secretary and the iEMSs Treasurer may be the same person.

  AND

  • 8-25 members of iEMSs Board.

Nominations

Nominations for the positions are invited to be submitted via online Form on the iEMSs website (https://iemss.org/home/elections2024-nominations/) during the period March 15th – April 15th, 2024. Please provide information about the candidate, including a short bio and motivation to run for the Board/Office.  Candidates for the Board are required to specify their previous contributions to the Society. Candidates for the Office are expected to additionally indicate specific areas of intended contribution to the society as an officer. Self-nominations are possible.

“Terms of members of the iEMSs Board and the iEMSs Office will be two years… Nominees are expected to have contributed actively to society activities and functions. Service contributions can include service as a session organizer, participation as an editor of the iEMSs conference proceedings, input as a group or thread moderator, and notable other efforts for the general benefit of the society” (Bylaws Article V.5).

Nominations for the iEMSs Office will also be considered as nominations for the iEMSs Board.

The candidate details will be made available online to all members of the iEMSs prior to the opening of the voting period.  

Electronic vote

Each active member of iEMSs will be invited to cast their vote through online Form (by login to the iEMSs website) during the period between April 30th and May 15th, 2024. The results of the vote will be validated by the Elections Committee and reported to the iEMSs President prior to the General Meeting and announced at the General Meeting during iEMSs 2024 Congress in East Lansing, Michigan, including the date for constituting the new Office to take over operations of iEMSs, as well as via email to the iEMSs membership.

WINTER 2024 NEWSLETTER 2

March 13, 2024

In this issue:

iEMSs 2024 Biennial Conference – Call for Abstracts

We are delighted to open the Call for Abstracts for iEMSs 2024, which you can find here:
https://proceedings.iemss.org/index.php/2024/about/submissions

The final deadline for abstract submission is 5 April 2024, which will give you all ample time to prepare and submit your abstracts. However, we ask the session convenors to assess all abstracts as they are submitted and to enable you to make travel decisions based on an accepted submission, please consider submitting your abstracts as soon as possible.

As a quick reminder and background: the iEMSs Board and Office have decided to move to a model with extended abstracts (max. 2 pages including references) only. The main reason for this has been the substantial additional effort required to manage the review process and to ensure that conference proceedings were edited and made available online open access in an acceptable amount of time. Download figures for full conference papers, and the major hurdles of getting proceedings and full papers of a comparatively smaller conference indexed in Web of Science or Scopus did not justify that effort. In addition, we are publishing SESMO, our full open access journal, and edit Environmental Modelling and Software, which provide excellent outlets for full manuscripts which may emerge from iEMSs biennial conferences. Specific communications around opportunities for special issues and general submissions to both journals in the context of iEMSs 2024 as an excellent venue for publishing full manuscripts will be made in due course.

We will gather feedback after the 2024 conference and report back to the new Office and Board to be elected next year to review this approach in time for the 2026 conference and beyond.

Secondly, after working with several different conference management and abstract handling systems over the years, we have decided to invest some efforts in setting up the Open Journal System (OJS), which is used as well to publish SESMO. Along with setting up a persistent conference website as part of the iEMSs domain, the plan is to trial OJS for the 2024 conference, gather feedback and learning points, and if all goes well, we will go with this setup for all future conferences. This will have several benefits, including the ease of generating open access proceedings directly in the iEMSs online presence and close to, if not even before the actual conference. In addition, it would give abstract authors, session organisers and stream convenors the same user experience every time, without the need to adapt to a new system again and again.

We will be working with session organisers and stream convenors as we run this new setup for a first time in the run up to June. We may hit a bump or two and experience some hiccups, but the potential advantages operating our own setup will streamline our conference organization in the future and benefit local organisers and scientific committees going forward.

IAMES2024

3rd IFAC Workshop on Integrated Assessment Modeling for Environmental Systems, Savona, Italy, 29-31 May 2024.

IAMES2024 is the third workshop focused on environmental modelling and integrated impact assessment that will be organized at the Savona Campus of the University of Genova. These topics generally involve scientists from different disciplines, enterprises, policy makers, and other stakeholders for monitoring, management, and planning of environmental systems, and it finds application in multiple domains (risk management, pollution, social and life sciences, economics, power and energy, circular economy, …) in an integrated way.

More information at: https://iames.unige.it/

Key Dates

  • Special Session proposal: 15 February 2024
  • Regular papers submission deadline: 29 February 2024
  • Discussion papers submission deadline 15 March 2024

WINTER 2024 NEWSLETTER 2

January 30, 2024

In this issue:

iEMSs 2024 Biennial Conference – Call for Abstracts

We are delighted to open the Call for Abstracts for iEMSs 2024, which you can find here:
https://proceedings.iemss.org/index.php/2024/about/submissions

The final deadline for abstract submission is 5 April 2024, which will give you all ample time to prepare and submit your abstracts. However, we ask the session convenors to assess all abstracts as they are submitted and to enable you to make travel decisions based on an accepted submission, please consider submitting your abstracts as soon as possible.

As a quick reminder and background: the iEMSs Board and Office have decided to move to a model with extended abstracts (max. 2 pages including references) only. The main reason for this has been the substantial additional effort required to manage the review process and to ensure that conference proceedings were edited and made available online open access in an acceptable amount of time. Download figures for full conference papers, and the major hurdles of getting proceedings and full papers of a comparatively smaller conference indexed in Web of Science or Scopus did not justify that effort. In addition, we are publishing SESMO, our full open access journal, and edit Environmental Modelling and Software, which provide excellent outlets for full manuscripts which may emerge from iEMSs biennial conferences. Specific communications around opportunities for special issues and general submissions to both journals in the context of iEMSs 2024 as an excellent venue for publishing full manuscripts will be made in due course.

We will gather feedback after the 2024 conference and report back to the new Office and Board to be elected next year to review this approach in time for the 2026 conference and beyond.

Secondly, after working with several different conference management and abstract handling systems over the years, we have decided to invest some efforts in setting up the Open Journal System (OJS), which is used as well to publish SESMO. Along with setting up a persistent conference website as part of the iEMSs domain, the plan is to trial OJS for the 2024 conference, gather feedback and learning points, and if all goes well, we will go with this setup for all future conferences. This will have several benefits, including the ease of generating open access proceedings directly in the iEMSs online presence and close to, if not even before the actual conference. In addition, it would give abstract authors, session organisers and stream convenors the same user experience every time, without the need to adapt to a new system again and again.

We will be working with session organisers and stream convenors as we run this new setup for a first time in the run up to June. We may hit a bump or two and experience some hiccups, but the potential advantages operating our own setup will streamline our conference organization in the future and benefit local organisers and scientific committees going forward.

IAMES2024

3rd IFAC Workshop on Integrated Assessment Modeling for Environmental Systems, Savona, Italy, 29-31 May 2024.

IAMES2024 is the third workshop focused on environmental modelling and integrated impact assessment that will be organized at the Savona Campus of the University of Genova. These topics generally involve scientists from different disciplines, enterprises, policy makers, and other stakeholders for monitoring, management, and planning of environmental systems, and it finds application in multiple domains (risk management, pollution, social and life sciences, economics, power and energy, circular economy, …) in an integrated way.

More information at: https://iames.unige.it/

Key Dates

  • Special Session proposal: 15 February 2024
  • Regular papers submission deadline: 29 February 2024
  • Discussion papers submission deadline 15 March 2024

WINTER 2023 NEWSLETTER 1

December 19, 2023

In this issue:

iEMSs 2024 Biennial Conference – Registration open

Michigan State University is excited to welcome you to East Lansing, Michigan and beyond. Whether you’re an outdoor enthusiast, an urban adventurer, or somewhere in between, Michigan has it all and summer is the perfect time to visit.

We look forward to hosting an amazing 12th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software (iEMSs) that creates an environment for meaningful learning and networking. We hope you will take the time to enjoy all that Michigan has to offer.

To learn more about this event, visit: https://conference.iemss.org/

CONFERENCE VENUE AND LODGING

IEMSs will take place at the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center (219 S Harrison Rd, East Lansing, MI 48824), located in the heart of Michigan State University’s lush and welcoming campus. This facility offers comfortable and convenient accommodations in addition to the primary meeting space for the event.

Additional lodging accommodations are available at the nearby Graduate Hotel, a short 15 minute walk from the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center or at the Brody Dormitory Lodging and Café, conveniently located across the street.

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE – June 23 – 27, 2024

A tentative event schedule can be found online at https://conference.iemss.org/schedule/.

The conference schedule has been designed to offer both structured and more relaxed networking opportunities for attendees to build and enhance partnerships. Your support and engagement will help enhance the experience of the attendees and to help solve our global environmental challenges.

REGISTRATION

Registration for the event is now open. You can register by visiting: https://events.anr.msu.edu/iEMSs/. Registration includes the iEMSs 2 year membership fee, program materials, and several meals and beverages throughout the event. An outline of the membership fees are below:

Professional Online Registration

  • Early Bird Registration: US$795 (until April 5 2024)
  • Regular Registration: US$995 (April 6 2024 to June 2 2024)
  • Late Registration: US$1195 (June 3 2024 to June 19 2024)

Student Online Registration

  • Early Bird Registration: US$395 (until April 5 2024)
  • Regular Registration: US$595 (April 6 2024 to June 2 2024)
  • Late Registration: US$795 (June 3 2024 to June 19 2024)

To learn more or register visit: https://conference.iemss.org/

Conference Streams

  • Stream A. Decision making and public participation in environmental modelling
  • Stream B. Modeling environmental fate of contaminants, human well-being and ecological public health
  • Stream C. Computational methods, workflows, informatics and integrated systems in environmental modelling
  • Stream D. System design, identification and uncertainty in modelling complex environmental & agricultural systems
  • Stream E. Socio-environmental systems modelling for planetary health and environmental sustainability
  • Stream F. (Big) data solutions for environmental systems planning, management, and operation

Please share and advertise the conference widely in your networks! The streams, sessions and workshops are made available on the conference website here: https://conference.iemss.org/streams/

Prepare for the call for abstracts

iEMSs 2024 will come with some changes that have been long coming. Firstly, the iEMSs Board and Office have decided to move to a model with extended abstracts only. The main reason for this has been the substantial additional effort required to manage the review process and to ensure that conference proceedings were edited and made available online open access in an acceptable amount of time. Download figures for full conference papers, and the major hurdles of getting proceedings and full papers of a comparatively smaller conference indexed in Web of Science or Scopus did not justify that effort. In addition, we are publishing SESMO, our full open access journal, and edit Environmental Modelling and Software, which provide excellent outlets for full manuscripts which may emerge from iEMSs biennial conferences. We will gather feedback after the 2024 conference and report back to the new Office and Board to be elected next year to review this approach in time for the 2026 conference.

Secondly, after working with several different conference management and abstract handling systems over the years, we have decided to invest some efforts in setting up the Open Journal System (OJS), which is used as well to publish SESMO. Along with setting up a persistent conference website as part of the iEMSs domain, the plan is to trial OJS for the 2024 conference, gather feedback and learning points, and if all goes well, we will go with this setup for all future conferences. This will have several benefits, including the ease of generating open access proceedings directly in the iEMSs online presence and close to, if not even before the actual conference. In addition, it would give abstract authors, session organisers and stream convenors the same user experience every time, without the need to adapt to a new system again and again.

We intend to open the call for abstracts first thing in January 2024 and ask all iEMSs 2024 authors, session organisers and stream convenors for their support and patience as we run this new setup for a first time in the run up to June. We may hit a bump or two and experience some

hiccups, but the potential advantages operating our own setup will streamline our conference organization in the future and benefit local organisers and scientific committees going forward.

In the meantime, you can already prepare your abstracts and get ready for submission in January with the template, which you can find on the conference website here. Or directly as .docx or .rft.

SUMMER 2023 NEWSLETTER

September 7, 2023

In this issue:

Update on iEMSs 2024 Conference

The 12th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software, “Addressing Global Environmental Challenges through Intelligent Modeling!” is less than a year away! iEMSs 2024 will be held in East Lansing, Michigan, June 23 – 27, 2024. Session proposals have been received and the program is being organized. Call for abstracts will be coming out this fall. Further details will be available at https://iemss.org/ and https://conference.iemss.org/.

  • Stream A. Decision making and public participation in environmental modelling
  • Stream B. Modeling environmental fate of contaminants, human well-being and ecological public health
  • Stream C. Computational methods, workflows, informatics and integrated systems in environmental modelling
  • Stream D. System design, identification and uncertainty in modelling complex environmental & agricultural systems
  • Stream E. Socio-environmental systems modelling for planetary health and environmental sustainability
  • Stream F. (Big) data solutions for environmental systems planning, management, and operation

Please share and advertise the conference widely in your networks! We look forward to seeing you all in East Lansing next year.

2nd AP Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems – Call for Papers

The 2nd AP SDEWES Conference will be dedicated to the improvement and dissemination of knowledge on methods, policies and technologies for increasing the sustainability of development by de-coupling growth from natural resources and replacing them with knowledge based economy, taking into account its economic, environmental and social pillars. Conference will be head April 2 – 5, 2024 in Gold Coast, Australia. For more information: http://goldcoast2024.sdewes.org/index.

SESMO Compendium on “Fundamentals of Modelling, Principles and Good Practice”

A joint special issue on Good Modelling Practice is being shared with three journals: Environmental Modelling and Software, Ecological Modelling and Socio-Environmental Systems Modelling. Some details are on each of the journals’ websites and are in the attached in terms of scope – which can be very wide such as considering the whole modelling cycle, or methods or applications for any part of the cycle. Below are the Guest Editors, one from each of the journals. They will be across all submissions. There is some flexibility about the timing but Tony Jakeman would be very pleased to receive an abstract or even a suggestion of what you might cover in a submission so the proposed topic can be discussed.

Guest Editors

Tony Jakeman, SESMO         tony.jakeman@anu.edu.au

Sondoss Elsawah, EMS         s.elsawah@adfa.edu.au

Hsiao-Hsuan (Rose) Wang, ECOMOD     Hsiaohsuan.Wang@ag.tamu.edu

Which journal to publish in?

Authors can submit to one of the three journals but only one must be chosen. It is envisaged that manuscripts will be reviewed and assessed by the relevant journal selected by the author(s) and Guest Editors will be across all manuscript processes.

Deadlines for submission

Enquiries and Abstracts of 500 words as soon as possible to any of the three Guest Editors above. Full papers due February 28, 2024.

Upcoming Fall Webinar

We are currently developing plans for the next webinar, tentatively scheduled for 27 October 2023. Further details will be shared in the fall newsletter, on twitter, and at https://iemss.org.

SPRING 2023 NEWSLETTER

April 13, 2023

In this issue:

Call for Session Proposals for iEMSs 2024

Session proposals are being accepted for the 12th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software, “Addressing Global Environmental Challenges through Intelligent Modeling!” to be held in East Lansing, Michigan, June 23 – 27, 2024. Session proposals are due by 30 April 2023. Sessions can be submitted here. Streams include:

  • Stream A. Decision making and public participation in environmental modelling
  • Stream B. Modeling environmental fate of contaminants, human well-being and ecological public health
  • Stream C. Computational methods, workflows, informatics and integrated systems in environmental modelling
  • Stream D. System design, identification and uncertainty in modelling complex environmental & agricultural systems
  • Stream E. Socio-environmental systems modelling for planetary health and environmental sustainability
  • Stream F. (Big) data solutions for environmental systems planning, management, and operation

iEMSs Awards

The iEMSs acknowledges research excellence and service to the Society periodically awarding Medals (biennial, even years), Fellowships (biennial, odd years) and Early Career Research Excellence (ECRE) awards (biennial, even years). There will be a call for Fellow nominations soon.

At iEMSs 2022, the iEMSs Board presented the following awards:

  • Biennial Medals: Tatjana Filatova, Marcus Janssen, Giorgio Mannina
  • Fellowships: Ann van Griensven, Serena Hamilton, Peter Khaiter, Jiri Nossent, Willem Vervoort
  • Early Career Research Excellence Prizes (ECREs): Takuya Iwanaga, Firouzeh Taghikhah, Wenyan Wu.

SESMO Compendium on “Fundamentals of Modelling, Principles and Good Practice”

With the support of its publisher iEMSs, our open access, community-driven journal SESMO is embarking on a Compendium on Fundamentals of Modelling and Good Practices. It will be a series of special issues with online materials. For more information, see sesmo.org/compendium. Interested contributors please contact Serena.Hamilton@anu.edu.au

WINTER 2023 NEWSLETTER

February 13, 2023

In this issue:

iEMSs Webinar Series

Winter iEMSs webinar this week:

Use of Systems Thinking Archetypes in Socio-Environmental Modeling

Wednesday 15 February 13:00 – 14:30 (EST UTC -5), 19:00 – 20:30 (CET UTC +1), Thursday February 16 5:00 – 6:30 (AEDT UTC +11) . For this webinar, iEMSs will be teaming up with SESYNC (National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center) and TIAS (The Integrated Assessment Society). Register here.

Solving problems of sustainability requires understanding social and environmental systems as being tightly coupled. Each system’s individual components, or parts, interact in complex ways, and feedbacks—or how change in one part of the system affects other system parts—determine the dynamics of socio-environmental systems (SES). Archetypes are a useful tool that can provide insights into a system’s dynamics and facilitate development of formal system models.Archetype analysis can reveal patterns that commonly plague SES, as well as strategies for achieving sustainability
across heterogeneous contexts. With its particular focus on using feedback loops as the leverage point for solving sustainability problems, the use of archetypes is growing in research and management.
This webcast will introduce the concept of archetypes, discuss some of the most common archetypes including their application in research, and describe how the use of archetypes can facilitate the socio-environmental modeling process.
This is part of a series of webinars on socio-environmental modeling, initially based on the article, “Eight Grand Challenges of Socio-Environmental Modelling.”
Host: Margaret Palmer, Director, National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, USA
Presenter: Sondoss Elsawah, Associate Professor, University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia
Panelists:
Laura Schmitt Olabisi, Professor, Michigan State University, USA
Juan Rocha, Research Scientist, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden
Renee Obringer, Assistant Professor, Pennsylvania State University, USA

Previous Webinars are available online: iEMSs YouTube

iEMSs 2024

12th International Congress on Environmental Modelling & Software. Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, USA Save the dates: June 23 to June 27, 2024

FALL 2022 NEWSLETTER

September 15, 2022

In this issue:

iEMSs Webinar Series

The iEMSs webinar series continues this fall, scheduled for 29 November 15:00 – 16:30 (EST UTC -5). For this webinar, iEMSs will be teaming up with SESYNC (National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, https://www.sesync.org/).

“Selecting a Modeling Approach for Addressing a Socio-Environmental Problem” moderated by Dr. Sondoss Elsawah. Dr. Serena Hamilton (Research Fellow at the Institute for Water Futures at the Australian National University) will provide a general overview of the issue followed by discussion by the following panelists: Kirsten Oleson (Professor of Ecological Economics with the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa), David Wrathall (Associate Professor of Natural Hazards at Oregon State University’s College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences) and Hedwig van Delden (Director of the Research Institute for Knowledge Systems (RIKS) in the Netherlands and Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering at the University of Adelaide).

Previous Webinars are available online: iEMSs YouTube

iEMSs 2024

12th International Congress on Environmental Modelling & Software. Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, USA Save the dates: June 23 to June 27, 2024

iEMSs Online Presence

We are working on improving our online presence.

  • Follow us on twitter! @iEMSsNews, which provides up-to-date society information
  • Quarterly newsletters are designed to keep society members informed. Please email outreach@iemss.org if you would like us to post something to the general iEMSs community, e.g., job announcements, and include in the newsletter
  • We are working on updating our YouTube site, where previous presentations and webinars will be kept available.
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SIMULTECH Partnership

iEMSs is working with INSTICC (Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication, https://portal.insticc.org/) to foster collaborations and support, particularly with SIMULTECH (Simulation Modeling Methodologies, Technologies, and Applications, https://simultech.scitevents.org). Details will follow.

SESMO Update (Socio-Environmental Systems Modelling, https://sesmo.org)

Special Issues

There are several special issues underway that are still open for submission.

  • Indigenous and local perspectives in citizen science and participatory modelling of socio-ecological systems: approaches and tools [open]
  • Sensitivity Analysis of Model Output [open]
  • Participatory and cross-scale modelling of social-ecological systems (SESs) in the
  • Anthropocene [open]
  • Large-scale behavioural models of land use change [in progress]

Compendium on Fundamentals of Modelling and Good Practice

Please get in touch with Tony.Jakeman@anu.edu.au or S.Elsawah@adfa.edu.au if you think you would like to contribute to the Compendium. In summary, its features are

  • Introductory overview type papers covering the fundamentals of modelling and best practices
  • Open/ongoing virtual issue composed of many modules for SES modelling
  • Learning resource for lecturers and students with online materials in a repository
  • Papers and other teaching material (tutorials, worksheets, case study examples) – all citable

Working towards an Impact Factor

Our application for Web of Science listing is underway where we have made substantial progress on an ISSN, DOI, Publication ethics, and Plagiarism & Peer Review policies.

This is your community journal. We encourage members and others to submit their manuscripts for constructive reviewing by our excellent Editorial Board. No other journal has its specific niche.

Two new Editors

Sondoss Elsawah has joined Tony Jakeman as Editor-in-Chief. Serena Hamilton is our new Managing Editor in place of Ioannis Athanasiadis who will remain in support. Many thanks to Ioannis for all his utmost diligence and collegiality in setting up SESMO. Welcome to both Sondoss and Serena who are proven outstanding in their roles.

Faculty Position Announcement

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN GLOBAL LAND USE MODELING BASED ON COMPUTATIONAL GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODELS

​Location: AMSTERDAM                 FTE: 0.8 – 1

Land use change is both a cause and consequence of Global Environmental Change, but at the same time it can also be a solution to environmental and social challenges. Given the strong global interconnections (telecoupling) through the trade of goods, commodities and services, local actions often have consequences in other world regions. Computational General Equilibrium models (CGE) are a tool to analyze these connections and evaluate the global impacts of policies and other interventions. Many sustainability interventions and policies affect land use, both locally and globally. The Associate Professor will build a research line that uses global scale models (preferably CGE modelling) to analyze how land use is changing in response to supply chain commitments such as zero-deforestation commitments, land use policies and other interventions. The successful candidate is expected to use and further develop the land use representation of large-scale models to enable the simulation of alternative policies affecting land use (practices) and their contributions to global sustainability goals.

For more information: https://workingat.vu.nl/ad/sectorgelden-cgemodeller/wp51wl