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1. On the Standard toolbar click Format Painter the paintbrush icon Then select the text or item to which you want to apply the new format The formatting is automatically applied to that item Microsoft Office 2000 Tips Site For more time saving tips on using Office 2000 visit the new Office Update Tips and Tricks Center at lt http officeupdate microsoft com 2000 articles TipsTr icksCtr htm gt Microsoft Office 2000 Menus Office 2000 programs provide a feature that customizes your menus on the fly according to your own usage patterns But if you d rather have complete menus all the time you can turn off the feature First choose Customize from the Tools menu and click the Options tab Then simply deselect the Menus Show Recently Used Commands First check box and click OK From now on or until you reactivate the option Office will display full menus Note that changing this setting in one application will affect all your Office applications Moving Text with Word s Spike Have you ever wanted to move non adjacent portions of text to a new location in a Word document You can do it if you use the Spike Just select the pieces of text pressing Ctrl F3 after you select each one Then move the insertion point to the new spot and press Shift Ctrl F3 to drop all the selections into place EXCEL 2000 Tips EXCEL TIP SITE For answers to other frequently asked questions about Excel as well as other assistance2. This software includes such topics as population dynamics bioenergetics fish culture habitat early life history and ichthyology The most popular software includes FishCalc DisBCal MicroFish and MOCPOP All software is peer reviewed and available for sale or download from the AFS website at http www fisheries org cus Please see the last page for a software order form To order software or for further information please contact Darren Benjamin Software Librarian at 217 244 1516 or benjamin mail inhs uiuc edu Fisheries GIS Symposium 2000 Michael D Porter The symposium will present current techniques for applying geographic information systems GIS to fishery research and management in stream river lake and marine environments GIS provides fishery biologists with a powerful management tool for integrating data from multiple sources and analyzing environmental factors affecting fish communities This symposium provides general fishery practitioners an opportunity to learn how innovative GIS techniques can be applied to fishery and environmental management Sponsors are the Computer User Section and the Fish Management Section For details contact Michael D Porter Office 662 254 3383 Fax 662 254 3668 mdporter cypress mcsr olemiss edu Fish Bioenergetics 3 0 for Windows Now Available from AFSCUS Gary Whelan The Computer Users Section is pleased to announce that WI Sea Grant s Fish Bioenergetics 3
3. Volume XIV Number 1 IN THIS ISSUE President s Byte Michael D Porter P 1 Secretary Treasurer s Report Stuart Shipman P 2 Fisheries Software Available Darren Benjamin P 3 Fisheries GIS 2000 Symposium Announcement Michael D Porter 00 P 3 4 International GIS and Environmental Modeling Symposium announcement 0 eee P 3 Wisconsin Sea Grant s Fish Bioenergetics 3 0 now available from AFSCUS ec eeeeeeeeees P 3 OTTER Program description John M Gates P 4 Proceedings of Fishery GIS Symposium Tom Nishida P 4 TIPS 6 Microsoft Tip Corner Gary Whelan P 5 Modeling the Environment review and Systems Dynamics notes Richard G Dudley P 6 FAST Program description Michael Maceina P 7 AFSCUS Software Review Fish Bioenergetics 3 0 Gary ASD L eccccccccecccceecseceeesseeceentsteeessees P 7 Two New Books Offered by AFS see supplement Preview of 130 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY P 10 Software Order Form eeee eee eee eeeeeeeeeee P 11 AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY COMPUTER USER SECTION SPRING 2000 President s Byte Michael D Porter One of the directions I have set for the Computer User Section is to bring Geographic Information Systems GIS forward as one element we emphasize There are a number of section members using GIS in their jobs and others interested in learning how GIS can be used effect
4. The program and manual are essentially devoid of statistical considerations Although a reference to extensive sensitivity testing is made in the introduction with reference to a summary in Chapter 2 other than literature references detected no clear direction as to how to conduct such sensitivity analyses In section 2 6 the user is advised on how to adapt the model to new species and the authors also recommend error analysis The model would greatly benefit by having a user friendly interface to conduct sensitivity analysis similar to the EcoRanger component of the Ecopath model http www ecopath org Such tests can be run manually with this program by changing parameters and capturing output but automation of such tasks would be highly welcome The user is advised to review some of the critiques of these models that are referenced in the user manual before seriously embarking on using this model for solving management problems As always be certain you are using the right tool for the right job However this program is quite mature and stable and is an excellent tool where the Bioenergetics approach is the proper solution for a problem Windows 3 1 Windows 95 and 98 Windows NT Above operating systems no RAM requirement provided Intel based PC running above operating systems with 3 megabytes of hard disk space Program is generally distributed on a CD but could be loaded off of a network or off of floppies according to documenta
5. than merely repeating past success By focusing on new developments and applications and on the extension of its joint GIS modeling approach into human environment interactions and the social sciences the meeting will provide leadership to and cross pollination among the broadest possible array of fields that may benefit from spatial methods and computer modeling Seeking to demonstrate the sense of innovation it espouses the 4th meeting will also set new standards in how a carefully crafted synergistic meeting can and should be convened to better relate science and management needs and opportunities We will meet at a state of the art facility for the first time outside the United States in the glorious Canadian Rocky Mountains at a most beautiful and mild time of year We will use challenging special topic lectures related research and practice papers diverse work in progress posters instructive demonstrations and hands on workshops These will be integrated using town meetings to monitor the metabolism of the meeting and to focus and add perspective in a shared learning environment Attendees can also expect an unprecedented set of published records of the contributions to and outcomes from the meeting Students interested scientists and others with a curiosity about and stake in the future of spatio temporal modeling of environment are strongly encouraged to attend the leading meeting of its kind Please visit the
6. 0 for Windows will be available from our library at a discount This widely used program can answer a wide range of energetic problems from growth rates derived from various food types to prey consumption rates to the analysis of temperature changes on fish growth It has been used to support a large number of peer reviewed papers in such journals as the Transactions of the American Fisheries Society North American Journal of Fisheries Management and the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences A review of this fine program is found in this newsletter This program is normally sold for 75 but will be available from our library for 65 for AFSCUS members and 70 for AFS members who are not AFSCUS members The non AFSCUS member price will include a year membership in the Computer User Section The program will also be available to non AFS members for 75 Announcement of 4th International Conference on Integrating Geographic Information Systems and Environmental Modeling This conference will be at The Banff Centre for Conferences Banff Alberta Canada on Sep 2 8 2000 The 4th International Conference on Integrating Geographic Information Systems and Environmental Modeling GIS EM4 continues a highly successful set of conferences that since 1989 have set the standard for cross disciplinary theory and practice in the synergistic fields of GIS and computer modeling of the natural environment GIS EM4 will build upon rather
7. Society homepage will be sporting a new look starting in April They have outsourced the design to improve its appearance and functionality One of the recent communication models in the computing community is the user group The Computer User Section is a user group with the focus on the application of computers to problems in fisheries biology The value of the section is built on the participation of the members contributing ideas and information to the group through the newsletters website and monthly notes While few of us have time for long articles we often produce reports and other written materials that contain useful information Clip out some of those useful ideas and share them with your colleagues With the rapidly changing technology I am trying to provide some of this information on computing trends like GIS Palm handheld computers and the Linux operating system What other changes in computer technology and software can we use as fishery biologists Share your ideas by sending in your suggestions for the newsletter or the monthly notes Secretary Treasurer s Report Stuart Shipman This financial statement is current as of 4 18 00 The accounting summary indicates that we spent over 1 000 for the newsletter since Jan 1999 Currently those expenditures run closer to 150 per newsletter for mailings to members without email addresses Overall the section is in good shape financially Looking forward w
8. to face meeting is necessary Instead of creating a new meeting request and then copying and pasting text from the e mail message you can use the Microsoft Outlook AutoCreate feature to create a meeting request almost instantaneously and capture all the information in your e mail thread And best of all AutoCreate lets you convert any item into an item of another type such as a contact into a task or a note into an appointment Here s what to do to turn an e mail message into a meeting request 1 Drag the message onto the Calendar icon on the Outlook Bar 2 Enter the location for the meeting and then make any changes and select any additional options you want on the Appointment tab Relevant information from the message has already been added to fields in the new meeting request The entire message appears in the meeting text box 3 On the Actions menu click Invite Attendees 4 Enter a name or names in the To box 5 Click Send The Format Painter available in all Office 2000 programs makes it a snap to copy formatting from one item such as text in Word a cell in Excel a control in Access or a headline in FrontPage to another To copy formatting using the Format Painter Select the item or text with the formatting you want to copy To copy both paragraph attributes such as alignment and indentation and character attributes such as font and font effects select the item or text plus the paragraph mark after it
9. 00 FASTWrkShp h AFSCUS to review the software and we plan to sell tm Anyone wanting to take the workshop can register FAST through the Computer User Section on line Maximum number of participants is set at 40 Jeff Slipke and I will be giving a Fish Population Jeff and I are available to do workshops for interested Dynamics Modeling workshop demonstrating and AFS chapters and various fish agencies In the past I distributing draft versions of FAST at the Western have conducted workshops for the SD AFS IL AFS Division of AFS meeting in Telluride CO The and a number of state fish agencies AFSCUS Software Review Fish Bioenergetics 3 0 Gary Ash Software Review Chairman Program Title Fish Bioenergetics 3 0 Developers Center for Limnology Company University of Wisconsin Madison Contact Paul C Hanson e mail lecambe seagrant wisc edu for purchase Program Description The program is the newest version of the widely distributed Bioenergetics model formerly known as the Wisconsin model This program provides the user and windows friendly simulation environment to model energy budgets for a species of fish following the basic bioenergetics equation Consumption metabolism wastes growth The physiology of most common species of North American fish are described for modelling purposes as a series of coefficients that are collected from the published literature and are included with the program The user data would typically provide temperature
10. GIS EM4 website for additional information Space is limited so you may wish to register and reserve accommodations early Rates are guaranteed only through July 15 2000 Please use the following contacts for inquiries about GIS EM4 the GIS EM4 website all conference related information including on line registration at http www colorado edu research cires banff Computer Program OTTER John M Gates The program Otter exe calculates revenues costs and net incomes to boat captain crew and total for New England otter trawler vessels by size port gear type month and year Otter originated in 1980 during a collaborative research effort between the Northeast Regional Office NMFS and the Department of Resource Economics University of Rhode Island The goal of this effort was to create a capability for monitoring the economic status of the Otter trawl 4 fleet The program was to facilitate what if scenario questions while using all available information in the NMFS system and having an override capability for users The current version was created in Quick Basic by Philippe Lallemend The menus allow user choice on vessel configuration days at sea by month lay system cost components captain s skill OTTER proceeds at each menu by generating default values by drawing on its database of year specific parameter values It then allows the user to override these values The parameter values were generated by exten
11. anadian 1 Class and International air mail is included in disk prices Make check payable to AFS Computer User Section U S funds only please Send your order to Darren Benjamin Software Librarian Illinois Natural History Survey 607 E Peabody Champaign IL 61820 USA benjamin denr1 igis uiuc edu 11 Aquatic Habitat Assessment Common Methods Mark B Bain and Nathalie J Stevenson eds 224 pages 8 X11 softcover ISBN 1 888569 18 2 Aquatic Habitat Assessment This new manual represents the synthesis of a comprehensive survey of the most widely used methods for inland aquatic habitat assessmentin North America Common Methods seeks to reduce the variability in approaches to habitat assessment while still providing flexibility for selecting practices thatvary in effort cost precision and detail Common Methods Sixteen method chapters detail step by step procedures for assessing and describing regional setting basin attributes waterbody identi fication stream reaches macrohabiltat substra te cover and refuge bank condition riparian vegetation barriers stream discharge and volume water velocity temperature lake morphometry optical and chemical properties a Browse on line at http www fisheries org publications bookpdf aquaticintro htm List price 33 AFS members 20 Stock num ber 540 28 To order contact AFS publications at 412 741 5700 or afsorders abdintLcom or order th
12. articles for Excel 2000 users go to lt http officeupdate microsoft com articlelist o2kExcel articles htm gt Flexible Formulas Using the Conditional Sum Wizard Formulas in Excel typically calculate results for all values in a given range However you can create formulas that calculate results for only those values that meet certain conditions You can create the formulas manually by using functions such as IF SUMIF COUNTIF or by using the Conditional Sum Wizard For more information type About calculating a value based on a condition in the Office Assistant or on the Answer Wizard tab in the Excel Help window and then click Search For examples of these and other kinds of commonly used formulas type Commonly Used Formulas in the Office Assistant or on the Answer Wizard tab in the Excel Help window and then click Search Use Workbooks in Different Versions of Excel Let s say you use Excel 2000 at your workplace but you have Excel 95 installed on your computer at home How do you save files so that you can open them in both versions There are several file formats you can use to save Excel 2000 files that are compatible with earlier versions of Excel To learn more type About using Microsoft Excel 2000 files with earlier versions in the Office Assistant or on the Answer Wizard tab in the Excel Help window and then click Search Modelling the Environment book review and Notes on Systems Dynamics Modelling Richard G Dudle
13. d CD Selling Price if applicable PREVIEW OF 130 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY In addition to the GIS Symposium mentioned above there will be five workshops at the meeting Applied River Geomorphology and Biotechnical engineering for Fisheries Biologists Cooperative Learning in Fisheries Education An Introduction to Decision Analysis for Natural Resource Managers Fisheries Economics for Non economists The Present and Future of Minnows Suckers and Other Ignored Fishes of North America For details visit the American Fisheries Society Website at http www fisheries org All workshops will be Sunday August 21 2000 nARWNe Also the second Black Bass Symposium will take place August 21 to 24 at the same location as the National meeting This promises to be a very heady steeping in black bass biology Refer to the AFS Website for details 10 American Fisheries Society Computer User Section FOR SOFTWARE DESCRIPTIONS AND INTERNET DOWNLOAD OPTIONS http www fisheries org cus cuslib htm Ordering information is presented and the 10 software can be downloaded at no charge although a request for donation will be asked of non members DISKETTE ORDER FORM IBM PC COMPATIBLE SOFTWARE March 2000 listing Ship To Phone Order must be prepaid or accompanied by a written purchase order Please provide a street address for package service delivery Check the desired disk size Low density 5 14 or hig
14. e should only have small expenses for the newsletters listserver storage and supplies plus travel expenses for the Excom to the annual meeting Mickey indicated that he felt his employer would cover his travel I have requested out of state from my employer to travel to St Louis Not sure about Beard s expenses Also Mickey may have incurred some expenses for the GIS symposium we re holding at the annual meeting We had 151 national and 21 international members who have paid 2000 dues as of Dec 31 1999 I have not received an update since that time AFSCUS Account Summary 1 1 99 to 4 18 00 CATEGORY DESCRIPTION AMOUNT INCOME Dues payment 3 236 00 Interest increase 83 17 Software sales 547 00 TOTAL INCOME 3 866 17 EXPENSES Donation 250 00 Donation for printing 300 00 Listserve 300 00 Newsletter 1 053 00 Raffle 100 00 Software purchase 116 00 Storage space 80 00 Supplies 25 00 Travel 497 88 TOTAL EXPENSES 2 722 29 TOTAL INCOME EXPENSES 1 143 88 TRANSFERS To NOW Checking 200 00 From savings 200 00 TOTAL TRANSFERS 0 00 OVERALL TOTAL 1 143 88 ACCOUNT BALANCES REPORT As of 4 18 2000 ACCOUNT BALANCE ASSETS Cash and Bank accounts NOW Checking 2 428 39 Savings 3 998 65 TOTAL Cash and Bank Accts 6 427 04 TOTAL ASSETS 6 427 04 LIABILITIES 0 00 OVERALL TOTAL 6 427 04 Fisheries Software Available Daren Benjamin The AFS Computer User Section now contains 23 software packages in our software library
15. h density 3 2 disks are available except where indicated The following packages are 10 00 each An asterisk indicates that printed documentation is supplied with the package N A indicates software not available for selected disk size 3 5 5 25 _ AFSCUS 28 Habitat Suit Indices for Lotus1 2 3 ___ AFSCUS 30 MOCPOP Version 2 0 ___ AFSCUS 31 GRASCARP Version1 0 ___ AFSCUS 32 FISHPROG ___ AFSCUS 33 TROUT 4X4 3 5_ 5 25 ___ AFSCUS 10 PREFER ___ AFSCUS 13 CAGEAN ___ AFSCUS 16 GENMOD ___ AFSCUS 19 FISHPARM ___ AFSCUS 20 Microfish Electrofishing ___ AFSCUS 25 Stream Temp Shade Solar ___ AFSCUS 26 Trout Dynamics ___ AFSCUS 27 Fish Hatchery Math For free revised AFSCUS 25 go to Web site www mesc usgs gov rsm rsm_software html The following package is 30 00 N A_AFSCUS 37 Marine Fish Images COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE N A ___ MI FishCalc89 DisBCal89 ___ M2 AbaSim ___ M3 Aquafic 1 10 ___ M4 FishBase96 ___ M5 Fish Bioenergetics 3 0 10 Packages x 10 00 30 Packages x 30 00 5 Packages x 5 00 COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE TOTAL COST ennaa e eioi ___ AFSCUS 35 SUNRISE N A_ AFSCUS 36 OPCPLOT N A_ AFSCUS 38 Early Life History Bibliography ___ AFSCUS 39 ASPIC The following package is 5 00 ___ AFSCUS 21 Sebastes bibliography 40 00 53 00 249 99 Non AFS members 199 00 AFS members 99 00 65 00 AFSCUS members 70 00 AFS members 75 00 Non AFS members U S C
16. he naive user to master Program Strengths The program is highly professionally done with a very intuitive interface and includes a basic introduction into the field of bioenergetics Many options exist to make data entry easy and allow maximum user flexibility in determining how a bioenergetics simulation should proceed Users familiar with the Window s environment will have no difficulty operating the program A web site is available that has known bugs listed plus updates 8 that can be downloaded to resolve many of those present on the CD version this reviewer had available The documentation was well presented and also available electronically on the CD An extensive bibliography which is included with the program provides supporting material as well as identified critiques of this modelling approach This program would make an excellent teaching tool to allow students to integrate trophic relationships and environmental variables with observed consumption rates and growth of fish Other problems relating nutrient availability and contaminant accumulation may also be addressed using the new modules included with this program Program Weaknesses Simulation programs such as Bioenergetics that rely on numerous equations and Computer OS Program Requirements Hardware Requirements parameters to predict what are often very limited field based measurements have notoriety for their sensitivity to assumptions and parameter error
17. ively as a fisheries research and management tool With this in mind the section has organized a Fisheries GIS Symposium for the AFS meeting in St Louis MO Several GIS packages including Geographic Resource Analysis Support System GRASS and ArcInfo ArcView www esri com AFSCUS Officers President President Elect Michael D Porter Doug Beard Dept of Natural Sciences WI Dept of Natural Resources MS Valley state University P O box 7921 Itta Bena MS 38941 USA 601 254 3379 Voice mporter fielding mvsu edu Madison Wisconsin 53707 USA 608 267 9427 Voice 608 267 7857 Fax BeardT mail01 dnr state wi us Past President Gary Whelan Software Review Chair Gary Ash 17312 106 Ave Edmonton AB T5S 1H9 Canada 403 483 3499 Voice 403 483 1574 Fax gash rll ca Secretary Treasurer Stuart Shipman Indiana Dept Natural Resources stufish fwi com Michigan Dept of Natural Resources P O Box 30446 Lansing MI 48909 USA 517 373 1280 Voice 517 373 7307 Fax whelang state mi us Software Librarian Darren M Benjamin Illinois Natural History Survey Center for Aquatic Ecology 607 E Peabody Division of Fish and Wildlife 511 W Columbia Parkway Columbia City IN 46725 USA Champaign IL 61820 USA 219 691 3181 Voice Work 217 244 1516 Fax 217 333 6294 benjamin denrl igis uiuc edu 219 691 3494 Fax Newsletter Editor Robert Ball Indiana Dept of Natural Resources P O Box 16 Av
18. oca IN 47420 USA 812 279 1215 Voice 812 279 2685 Fax avocafh tima com have online tutorials and education programs for learning how to use the software GRASS www baylor edu grass is a free download under the General Public License GPL running on Linux Unix and Solaris operating systems They are working on porting it into Windows 98 NT as well Both are powerful GIS systems with numerous plug in routines and add on features I have asked Joe Mion webmaster to start recruiting assistance with maintaining the Computer User Section website Darren Benjamin software librarian is updating the fisheries software library with the assistance of Gary Whelan past president and others Darren is working with Joe on the website directory of freeware and shareware I want to see the Section s website become a starting point for finding fisheries software I would like section members to consider contributing more notes to either the website and or the newsletter on computer techniques software or projects Along this same train of thought I am starting a How To section on the website It will consist of articles or links to a variety of topics ranging from basic software to specialized computer techniques Stephen Hale has submitted two items dealing with statistics When you find a note or website with useful how to instructions please forward it to Michael Porter mdporter cypress mcsr olemiss edu The American Fisheries
19. prey consumed as a proportion of the total diet and prey energy densities although the program included information on prey energy density for common food items Input parameters from the user would include first day of simulation final day of simulation start weight of fish and either end weight or total consumption The model estimates a p value proportion of total possible consumption iteratively by fixing total weight change from values entered or alternatively forcing the model to balance initial weight versus total consumption Once the p value is established the model will simulate the daily energy budgets over the time period indicated with results easily plotted with user friendly graphics or data are output directly to a spread sheet Data may be provided through easy to use spreadsheet manual entries or directly into text files using any text editor Although the model is individually based limited simulation of populations can be completed by the user providing a starting population number and mortality rates natural and or fishing that can be varied over time There are no density dependent or predator prey interactions in the population model The model also has two new sections using the bioenergetics approach to model cycling of nitrogen and phosphorous and contaminant analysis where bioaccumulation is of interest The program has an installation routine identical in format of most commercial windows programs and is very easy for t
20. rope or Japan Those who are interested in obtaining various announcements on the second Symposium please also contact me at tnishida enyo affrc go jp so that I can put your name in the e mailing list Microsoft Tips No 6 From Gary Whelan Microsoft Publisher 2000 Thumbnail Graphics Thumbnail graphics miniature versions of full size graphics are especially useful for decreasing the amount of time it takes for a visitor to download your Web site Here s all you have to do to create a thumbnail graphic on your Publisher 2000 Web site 1 On your Web page click the graphic you want to make a thumbnail for Selection handles appear around the object 2 Click Copy on the Edit menu 3 Click Paste on the Edit menu You now have two copies of the same graphic one on top of the other 4 Position the mouse pointer over one of the handles of the graphic on top until you see the Resize cursor 5 Hold down the mouse button and drag the handle to resize the object until it is approximately square inch Graphics are not always perfectly square You can resize the graphic until the longest edge either height or width is 1 inch in length Learn more about creating thumbnail graphics including how to make a thumbnail a hyperlink by visiting lt http officeupdate microsoft com 2000 articles Pub WThumb htm gt Microsoft Outlook Autocreate Has this happened to you You ve had a lengthy e mail conversation and now you realize a face
21. rough the AFS Online Bookstore at http www fisheries org pubs htm1 Innovations in Fish Passage Technology edited by Mufeed Odeh 228 pages 8 X11 hardcover ISBN 1 888569 17 4 This com prehensive volum e exam ines state of the art technology for assisting migratory fishes in overcoming natural and engineered obstructions Chapters include studies about Efficiencies of existing downstream bypass engineering in the United States Europe and Australia The use of single beam split beam and tracking radar type hydro acoustics in monitoring fish movement through bypass structures Differences in the bypass needs of nonsalmonid and salmonid species Efficiencies of diversion screen and surface collection technologies This bookis an outstanding example ofa fruitful collaboration between engineers and biologists as amandatory basis for sound fish passage solutions Professor Stefan Schmutz University of Agricultural Sciences Vienna Austria List price 55 AFSmembers 42 To order contact AFS publications at 412 741 5700 or afsorders abdintl com Stock number 540 24 For more information visit htt py www fishe ries org publication s AF SBooks webfinal x540 24 htm
22. sive statistical analyses of NMFS databases To download a free copy visit http www uri edu cels enre otter htm For more information contact Dr John M GATES at Email Jgates uri edu or write to him at Dept of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics 305 Lippitt Hall University of Rhode Island Kingston RI 02881 Tel 401 874 4584 or 874 2472 or Fax 401 782 4766 News on International Symposium on GIS in Fishery Sciences Tom Nishida Proceedings of the First Symposium March 2 4 1999 Seattle WA The formal Proceedings is planned to be published by October this year from Fishery GIS Research Group Some 40 selected full papers from 130 will be in the Proceedings including many GIS maps This Proceedings will be very useful reference for the beginners as well as advanced users of the GIS educators and researchers in fishery sciences This is because it covers various and unique applications in fresh coastal and marine waters in different technical levels in different regions of the world The price is not determined yet For those who are interested in making reservation contact me by e mail so that the order forms will be sent when it is ready For those who are interested in obtaining the Abstract Proceedings including all 130 papers also contact me The price is US 30 which is sold by Fishery GIS Research Group Second Symposium Next symposium will be held in 2002 The venue will be either Eu
23. stems 1999 by Michael Deaton and James Winebrake Details of this series is available at http www springer ny com biology moddysys For a quick look at what system dynamics modeling can do for you see a copy of my paper Dudley and Soderquist which was presented at the 1999 AFS meeting A Simple Example of How System Dynamics Modeling Can Clarify and Improve Discussion and Modification of Model Structure which can be found at http ourworld compuserve com homepages drrdudley dudspbs html Richard G Dudley lt rdudley indo net id gt FISHERY ANALYSIS SIMULATION TOOL FAST Program Status and Workshop Announcement Mike Maceina Editor s Note The FAST Program promises to become a very useful tool for the fishery biologist who must depend on his own skills for modeling It appears to be a big improvement over MOCPOP as it apparently has tools for calculating some of the population parameters used in modeling For more information you can contact Mike Maceina at lt mmaceina acesag auburn edu gt We now have a working version of the software program FAST that we should have completed in late summer 2000 Fifteen state agencies and a few AFS oy sections provided some funding to develop this workshop is on July 17 The program for this software It is currently being evaluated by our workshop can be found at the WD AFS website at contributors When completed we also would like http www fisheries org wd meet 20
24. tion Configuration Used 90 MHz Pentium w 2 GB hard disk CD ROM and 24 Mb RAM 800 x 1000 screen Subject Area check with X Availability Compatibility Accuracy of Calculations Documentation resolution _ Management Population Dynamics X Modelling _ Culture X Age and Growth _ Education _ Systematics Population Estimation Administration _ Habitat _ Economics Other _ Public Domain X Proprietary X IBM Compatible Macintosh Apple Other Good Bad X Untested Not Applicable Rate 1 to 10 10 None Available None Needed User Friendliness Rate 1 to 10 9 Education Value Rate 1 to 10 9 Productivity Potential Rate 1 to 10 6 Overall Rating Rate 1 to 10 8 For 1 to 10 rating scales 1 bad 5 average or acceptable 10 great Incorporate into AFSCUS Library X Yes No General Comments The program is a mature version of the broadly distributed Wisconsin bioenergetics model that makes full use of the windows interface and is quite stable The few bugs are documented at the Web site in addition to an update that repairs some of the problems on the CDROM version Lack of an easily accessible interface for conducting sensitivity analysis by varying input parameters or Monte Carlo repetitive simulations requires serious users a lot of repetitive work that could be more easily automated Overall an excellent program 75 00 US manual an
25. y For AFS members interested in learning to use the system dynamics approach to modeling for example with Stella or Vensim software I would highly recommend the book Modeling the Environment by Andrew Ford of Washington State University The book published by Island Press in 1999 is designed for teaching two semesters of modeling of environmental systems using the systems dynamics approach Ford uses various models to illustrate the approach and many of these are related to fisheries e g salmon smolt migration and hydropower dams and related fields Ford also has a supporting web page at http www wsu edu forda AAOpen html or at http www islandpress org ford AAOpen html Be sure to take a look at the guide to exercises which provides a number of interesting models which are developed in stages of complexity For learning understanding and teaching the system dynamics approach I believe that Ford s book is superior to the Springer Verlag Modeling Dynamic Systems series editied by Matthias Ruth and Bruce Hannon This series provides a larger number of small models but does not do as good a job as Ford does of explaining the model development process logic and the systems dynamic approach The Springer series includes Dynamic Modeling Hannon and Ruth 1994 and Modeling Dynamic Biological Systems Hannon and Ruth 1997 additional volumes of interest which I have not yet seen include Dynamic Modeling of Environmental Sy
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