SELES Training

GeoMemes staff have provided SELES courses several times, with 2008 being the latest.

SELES Background
The Spatially Explicit Landscape Event Simulator is a tool for constructing and running spatially explicit spatio-temporal landscape models that integrate natural and anthropogenic processes (e.g. fire, insect outbreaks, logging, succession) and track indicators (e.g. age class, habitat supply, timber volumes) over long time-frames and large spatial areas.

Researchers and managers use SELES in the fields of landscape ecology, simulation, and ecological modelling. SELES is useful as a tool for land-use planning scenario exploration, sustainable forest management, natural disturbance modelling and habitat modelling.

2008 SELES Course Info
We've divided the course into 1- and 2-day sessions - you can register for 1 or all the sessions. The core sessions will be taught by Charles Burnett and the advanced sessions by Andrew Fall. Each of the sessions was hosted by the Geography Department of the University of Victoria Campus, and taught in the new Spatial Sciences Teaching Lab. The SELES Symposium is free and open to all, and will be held in a UVic auditorium.