March 31, 1998

Session I: Model Overview and Scenario Discussion

9:15 Opening Remarks: Workshop goals

9:30 Patuxent model overview by principle investigators for the ecological and economic models.

• Patuxent ecological landscape model overview
  Robert Costanza, University of Maryland Institute for Ecological Economics
• Dynamic spatially-explicit models of land use change
  Nancy Bockstael, University of Maryland, Dept. of Agricultural and Resource Economics
  

10:30-10:45 BREAK. Coffee and snacks provided.

10:45-12:00 Discussion of specific scenario options

12:00-12:30 Discussion synthesis and next steps:

Evaluate how well scenarios represent overall goals

12:30-1:30 Lunch on your own

Session II: Model Details

Research scientists from the University of Maryland Institute for Ecological Economics will provide details about model attributes and answer questions.

1:30 The general ecosystem model (non-spatial applications)

Roel Boumans

2:00 Calibration and testing of the general ecosystem model

Ferdinando Villa

2:20 Landscape ecosystem model (spatial applications)

Alexey Voinov

3:10 BREAK

3:30 Model calibration for agricultural land using the EPIC model

Claudia Binder

3:50 Developing indicators from the landscape model

Lisa Wainger

4:10 Predicting potential damage risk from white-tailed deer

Steve Walters

4:30 Adjourn