Announcement — Ecological Modeling, a Distance Learning Course

The course is suitable for all those with an interest in gaining a sound knowledge of modeling environmental, ecotoxicological, and ecological data, including researchers within academic institutions and industry, environmental consultants, and environmental managers around the world. The course was launched in April 2001, and students can join the course at any date. Course participants can work at their own pace and are assisted by the Course Tutor, S.E. Jorgensen of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. The course will consist of eight steps corresponding to chapters in the textbook Fundamentals of Ecological Modeling. A third edition of the book was published August 2001. In addition to the exercises and problems within the textbook chapters, each step will consist of additional exercises and a stepwise development of participants’ own models. The results of exercises and the model development will be reviewed and commented by the Course Tutor. The eight steps and corresponding chapters with Fundamentals of Ecological Modeling (3 ed.) are: