Lecture Readings
- Lecture 1 - Thursday, January 27th, 2011
- Gomes, Carla P. Computational Sustainability. The Bridge, National Academy of Engineering. Volume 39, Number 4. Winter 2009.
- Lecture 2 - Tuesday, February 1st, 2011
- C. Wang, B.W. Turnbull, S.S. Nielsen, and Y.T. Grohn. Bayesian analysis of longitudinal Johne's disease diagnostic data without a gold standard test.
- Lecture 3 - Thursday, February 3rd, 2011
- O'Neill, Philip D. A tutorial introduction to Bayesian inference for stochastic epidemic models using Markov chain Monte Carlo methods. Mathematical Biosciences 180: 103-114. 2002.
- Lecture 4 - Tuesday, February 8th, 2011
- E. Cha, D. Bar, et. al. The cost and management of different types of clinical mastitis in dairy cows calculated by dynamic programming.
- Lecture 6 - Tuesday, February 15th, 2011
- Daniel Sheldon, Bistra Dilkina, et. al. Maximizing Spread of Cascades Using Network Design. UAI 2010.
- Kiyan Ahmadizadeh, Bistra Dilkina, et. al. An Empirical Study of Optimization for Maximizing Diffusion in Networks. CP 2010.
- Lecture 7 - Friday, February 18th, 2011
- Berlow, E.L., J.A. Dunne, N.D. Martinez, P.B. Stark, R.J. Williams, and U. Brose. 2009. Simple prediction of interaction strengths in complex food webs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 106:187-191.
- Dunne, J.A. 2009. Food webs. Pages 3661-3682 in Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science, ed. R.A. Meyers. Springer, New York.
- Dunne, J.A., R.J. Williams, N.D. Martinez, R.A. Wood, and D.E. Erwin. 2008. Compilation and network analyses of Cambrian food webs. PLoS Biology 6:693-708.
- Lecture 9 - Thursday, February 24th, 2011
- Diane E. Pataki, Margaret M Carreiro, et al. Coupling biogeochemical cycles in urban environments: ecosystem services, green solutions, and misconceptions. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, February 2011.
- Thomas Whitlow. The ecology of highways in Baltimore and Los Angeles: Pollution hotspots or opportunities for redevelopment?
- Lecture 10 - Tuesday, March 1st, 2011
- L. J. Moniz et al. Inferences about Coupling from Ecological Surveillance Monitoring: Approaches Based on Nonlinear Dynamics and Information Theory.
- J. M. Nichols et al. Assessing spatial coupling in complex population dynamics using mutual prediction and continuity statistics.
- L. J. Moniz et al. Application of information theory methods to food web reconstruction.
- Assessing spatial coupling in complex population dynamics using mutual prediction and continuity statistics.
- Lecture 12 - Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
- Adapt-N.
- Adapt-N: An Adaptive Nitrogen Management Tool for Corn Production.
- How Adapt-N calculates field-specific sidedress N recommendations for corn.
- N fate and transport under variable cropping history and fertilizer rate on loamy sand and clay loam soils: I. Calibration of the LEACHMN model.
- N rate and transport under variable cropping history and fertilizer rate on loamy sand and clay loam soils: II. Performance of LEACHMN using different calibration scenarios.
- Evaluation of the PNM model for simulating drain flow nitrate-N concentration under manure-fertilized maize
- Spatial and temporal processes affecting nitrogen availability at the landscape scale
- Lecture 13 - Thursday, March 10th, 2011
- Kiyan Ahmadizadeh, Bistra Dilkina, et. al. An Empirical Study of Optimization for Maximizing Diffusion in Networks. CP 2010.
- Lecture 16 - Tuesday, March 29th, 2011.
- Gardner, T.A. et al. Long-term region-wide declines in Caribbean corals. Science 301, 958(2003).
- Charrel, R.N., Lamballerie, X. de Raoult, D. Chikungunya outbreaks--the globalization of vectorborne diseases. The New England journal of medicine 356, 769-71(2007).
- Briggs, C.J., Knapp, R.A. & Vredenburg, V.T. Enzootic and epizootic dynamics of the chytrid fungal pathogen of amphibians. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 107, 9695-9700(2010).
- Lecture 20 - Tuesday, April 12th, 2011
- Jon M. Conrad and Kamola Kobildjanova The Economics of an Environmental Disaster: The Aral Sea IWREC.
Background Readings
Click here for a list of background readings compiled for the Spring 2010 course. This space will be updated with new readings as the semester progresses.