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Modeling habitat connectivity across the Swan River First Nation traditional territory

By Sarah Chisholm | April 30, 2026

This past winter, ApexRMS completed a habitat connectivity analysis in collaboration with Swan River First Nation (SRFN) in northern Alberta. The project explored how current…

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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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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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ApexRMS welcomes four new members to our Team

By Leonardo Frid | October 27, 2020

We are very excited to welcome four new members to our team of scientists and software developers: Caroline Tucker is a Quantitative Ecologist and was…

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Forecasting future water demand for the California Central Coast

By Leonardo Frid | September 22, 2020

A recent study in the journal Land published by scientists at the US Geological Survey and the University of California, Santa Cruz used ST-Sim to forecast…

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Short term COVID-19 Modeling Post Doc/Grad position

By Leonardo Frid | August 27, 2020

The BC COVID-19 team of modelers is looking for a post-doctoral fellow or senior graduate student to conduct modeling work related to forecasting and scenario building. The…

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Online presentations at the 2020 IALE-North America Meeting

By Leonardo Frid | May 21, 2020

Last week, we participated in the first fully virtual annual meeting of the International Association of Landscape Ecology (IALE) North America held May 11 –…

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Scenario based modeling framework for forecasting COVID-19 infections and deaths

By Leonardo Frid | April 28, 2020

Our SyncroSim software platform now supports real-time forecasts of COVID-19 infections and deaths for jurisdictions of any size, ranging from public health units to countries.…

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