Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/P020143/1
Raising your game by developing mathematical modelling skills
Training Grant Award
- Lead Supervisor:
- Professor M Heath, University of Strathclyde, Mathematics and Statistics
- Grant held at:
- University of Strathclyde, Mathematics and Statistics
- Science Area:
- Atmospheric
- Earth
- Freshwater
- Marine
- Terrestrial
- Overall Classification:
- Atmospheric
- ENRIs:
- Biodiversity
- Environmental Risks and Hazards
- Global Change
- Natural Resource Management
- Pollution and Waste
- Science Topics:
- Earth & environmental
- Complexity Science
- Population Ecology
- Ecosystem Scale Processes
- Ecosystem Scale Processes
- Abstract:
- Mathematical skills are generally weak in the NERC postgraduate community. However, the ability to formulate research problems in mathematical terms is a key to developing a deep insight into how natural systems operate, and the foundation for prediction into the future outside the limits of existing ranges of observed data. We aim to contribute to the training of a generation of environmental scientists who are not scared to start with a blank sheet of paper and develop their own mathematical models, rather than relying on 'black box' computer packages which may go some way to solving their problem, but will eventually be a barrier to new and innovative thinking and progress. To do this, we offer a 4-day residential-retreat crash-course and master-class in dynamical systems modelling. This begins with an introduction to differential equations and their power to describe the dynamics of a wide range of systems. Then, a detailed case study of modelling the dynamics of physics and ecology in a sea loch system. The second half of the course is devoted to a masterclass in which each student will be guided through translation of the story-line for their own research project first into equations, and then into working computer code. Every student will leave the retreat with a working prototype mathematical model for their own research project.
- NERC Reference:
- NE/P020143/1
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Doctoral Training
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Advanced Training
This training grant award has a total value of £26,491
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - Other Costs |
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| £26,491 |
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