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Understanding habitat preferences of wood buffalo in northern Alberta

By Sarah Chisholm | October 22, 2024

ApexRMS recently completed an incredible week-long trip to northern Alberta, hosted by the Fort McMurray Métis. The trip was held in support of a project…

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ApexRMS to co-host an upcoming BurnP3+ training workshop

By Sarah Chisholm | August 13, 2024

ApexRMS is excited to announce we will be co-hosting the upcoming course, Wildfire risk modeling using BurnP3+, to be held in-person at the UBC Okanagan…

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Celebrating ST-Sim’s 10-year anniversary with a new logo

By Sarah Chisholm | July 26, 2024

ST-Sim, the open-source SyncroSim package for modeling landscape change, is turning 10 years old. To mark this special date, we took a moment to reflect on…

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Presentation at the EcoPark management forum on ecological corridor planning

By Sarah Chisholm | June 26, 2024

ApexRMS recently visited the Royal Botanical Gardens to speak at a management forum organized by the Cootes to Escarpment EcoPark System. The event connected the…

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ApexRMS workshop and talks at the North American Congress for Conservation Biology

By Sarah Chisholm | May 17, 2024

ApexRMS is excited to announce that we will be delivering a series of talks and a workshop at this year’s North American Congress for Conservation Biology…

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Introducing SyncroSim Cloud: transforming collaborative geospatial forecasting

By Sarah Chisholm | April 12, 2024

We’re excited to announce the official beta launch of SyncroSim Cloud, a new online platform allowing users to collaborate on the development of geospatial forecasting…

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Wrap-up of SyncroSim BurnP3+ Workshop on fire simulation modeling

By Sarah Chisholm | March 12, 2024

ApexRMS recently travelled to Edmonton, Alberta to give a three-day workshop on BurnP3+, a SyncroSim package for simulating landscape-level wildfire burn probability. The workshop was…

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Upcoming SyncroSim workshop at the North American Congress for Conservation Biology 2024

By Sarah Chisholm | February 27, 2024

ApexRMS is excited to attend this year’s North American Congress for Conservation Biology (NACCB), taking place June 23-28th in Vancouver, BC, Canada. We are pleased…

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Omniscape Impact: a new tool for assessing the effects of habitat restoration on ecological connectivity

By Sarah Chisholm | January 8, 2024

ApexRMS has developed a new tool to assess the impact of alternative habitat restoration options on future ecological connectivity. The Omniscape Impact tool combines a…

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State-and-transition simulation modeling for wetland reclamation in the Athabasca Oil Sands

By Sarah Chisholm | December 11, 2023

ApexRMS is happy to announce its participation in the Boreal Wetlands Reclamation Assessment Program (BWRAP), in collaboration with Dr. Jan Ciborowski, Industrial Research Chair in…

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The new pysyncrosim package for Python is now available

By Katie Birchard | January 19, 2022

ApexRMS is pleased to announce the release today of a new open-source Python package, called pysyncrosim, providing a direct interface to the SyncroSim modeling framework…

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Connecting agent-based and state-and-transition simulation models

By Leonardo Frid | December 7, 2021

A new article by Brian Miller (USGS) and Leonardo Frid (ApexRMS) published in the journal Landscape Ecology describes the development of a new approach to…

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SyncroSim 2.3.5 Released

By Katie Birchard | October 1, 2021

ApexRMS has released a new version of SyncroSim – v2.3.5. This version of SyncroSim includes significant improvements and new features: Updated to version 4.8 of…

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Developing a property-specific fire risk model across the U.S.

By Bronwyn Rayfield | August 17, 2021

ApexRMS is helping to create a climate-driven, property-specific wildfire risk model for the U.S. The initiative is being led by First Street Foundation, a non-profit research and technology group, to give property owners…

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Forecasting cumulative effects using ST-Sim

By Leonardo Frid | June 17, 2021

A new article published in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution describes the development of a landscape simulation model to forecast the cumulative effects…

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Vegetation dynamics models: a comprehensive set for natural resource assessment and planning in the United States

By Leonardo Frid | May 4, 2021

A new article published in the journal Ecosphere describes the development of a national set of vegetation dynamics models for the United States. These state-and-transition…

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New self-directed course for ST-Sim

By Leonardo Frid | April 13, 2021

We have just released a new version of our popular course covering state-and-transition simulation modeling of landscape dynamics using ST-Sim. This two-day self-directed online course…

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Roadmap to a dynamic ecosystem assessment system for Australia

By Leonardo Frid | March 5, 2021

ApexRMS was recently invited to participate in the virtual symposium “Developing a dynamic ecosystem assessment system for Australia”, February 1-5, 2021. Hosted by CSIRO, Australia’s national science research agency, the symposium brought…

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Major scalability improvements to SyncroSim and ST-Sim

By Leonardo Frid | January 27, 2021

Over the last few months, SyncroSim and ST-Sim releases have included major scalability improvements allowing for simulations to run faster for larger and more complex…

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Linking models of fire behavior and landscape change to support forecasts of invasive species in southwestern U.S.

By Leonardo Frid | December 28, 2020

New research published in Scientific Reports used the ST-Sim model of landscape change, in combination with the FARSITE fire behavior model, to evaluate critical uncertainties…

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