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Introducing the Landscape Conservation Forecasting Handbook

By Sarah Chisholm | March 26, 2026

We are excited to share the publication of the Landscape Conservation Forecasting Handbook by Dr. Louis Provencher, Director of Science at The Nature Conservancy in…

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Hands-on wildfire hazard modeling training with BurnP3+ coming to Toronto this April

By Sarah Chisholm | February 27, 2026

ApexRMS is pleased to announce an upcoming guided course, Wildfire hazard modeling using BurnP3+, taking place April 14–16, 2026 at York University in Toronto, Ontario.…

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Advancing wildfire risk planning with Swan River First Nation

By Sarah Chisholm | December 22, 2025

This past fall, ApexRMS returned to Kinuso, Alberta to continue our partnership with Swan River First Nation (SRFN) on the co-development of a wildfire risk…

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Empowering groups with better wildfire modeling tools

By Sarah Chisholm | November 28, 2025

This past fall, ApexRMS team members contributed to two major wildfire modeling events, sharing tools and partnerships that support safer, more informed wildland fire planning…

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New workshop: Image classification using ecoClassify

By Sarah Chisholm | October 23, 2025

Due to overwhelming demand, our Image classification using ecoClassify workshop is back for a second offering. Following the rapid fill-up of our initial session, we’re…

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Modeling ecosystem futures in support of Australia’s Nature Repair Market

By Sarah Chisholm | September 30, 2025

This past summer, ApexRMS embarked on a new collaboration with CSIRO’s Ecological Knowledge System (EKS) team to support Australia’s new Nature Repair Market initiative. Led…

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Building wildfire resilience with Swan River First Nation

By Sarah Chisholm | August 15, 2025

Earlier this summer, our team members, Katie Birchard, Leonardo Frid, and Colin Daniel, traveled to Kinuso, Alberta, where they co-facilitated a two-day workshop on wildfire…

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Upcoming BurnP3+ wildfire model training opportunities this fall

By Sarah Chisholm | June 30, 2025

Following the success of our most recent sold-out wildfire modeling course this past Spring at the University of Alberta, we’re excited to announce two upcoming…

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The next chapter for SyncroSim: launching version 3 and SyncroSim Studio

By Sarah Chisholm | May 27, 2025

ApexRMS is proud to share a significant milestone in our journey to improve the accessibility of ecological modeling: we’ve officially launched version 3 of SyncroSim,…

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Now available: BurnP3+FireSTARR – a new wildfire modeling tool for SyncroSim

By Sarah Chisholm | April 28, 2025

ApexRMS has released BurnP3+FireSTARR, a new wildfire modeling package available through the SyncroSim platform. BurnP3+FireSTARR integrates the Canadian Forest Fire Behaviour Prediction (FBP) System FireSTARR…

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ApexRMS workshops, talks, and poster presentations at Hybrid ESA 2022

By Sarah Chisholm | June 23, 2022

The 2022 Ecological Society of America’s (ESA) Annual Meeting will be a joint meeting with the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution (CSEE) on August…

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The current state of multispecies connectivity analysis

By Sarah Chisholm | May 30, 2022

A new systematic review published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution provides an overview of computational methods for analyzing and prioritizing the connectivity needs of…

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Virtual SyncroSim and ST-Sim Workshop at Hybrid NACCB 2022

By Katie Birchard | March 30, 2022

The 2022 North American Congress for Conservation Biology (NACCB) will be a hybrid conference with opportunities to participate in-person in Reno, NV, and virtually. ApexRMS…

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New approach to model forest carbon and natural climate solutions across the U.S.

By Leonardo Frid | February 22, 2022

A new modeling approach published in the journal Carbon Balance and Management provides national-scale, spatially-explicit estimates of carbon stocks and fluxes within forest ecosystems under…

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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 Leonardo Frid | 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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