Training

November 13-15, 2024
University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus

This three-day, in-person course provides a foundation for developing and running spatially-explicit wildfire risk models using the BurnP3+ package for SyncroSim. The course covers wildfire simulation modeling concepts, how to use BurnP3+ to create models of ignitions, burning conditions and fire growth to explore wildfire risk and susceptibility across a landscape, and how to interpret and share model results.

June 26, 2024
University of British Columbia

ApexRMS delivered a workshop at this year's North American Congress for Conservation Biology (NACCB), covering the basics of how to build ecological forecasting workflows using SyncroSim. During this one-hour workshop, participants learned how to connect models of landscape change using ST-Sim to models of species distribution using WISDM, habitat connectivity using omniscape, and ecosystem carbon using LUCAS. Participants also learned how to leverage the existing SyncroSim infrastructure to add and connect their own custom models into a workflow.

February 27-29, 2024
Northern Forestry Centre, Edmonton, Alberta

This three-day workshop, co-organized by Natural Resources Canada, provided participants with an introduction to BurnP3+, a SyncroSim package for simulating landscape-level wildfire burn probability. Attendees from across Canada got hands-on experience creating spatially-explicit wildfire simulations for two case study areas, while comparing various fire growth models, management strategies, and climate scenarios.

September 19th, 2023
Fort Collins Science Center, Fort Collins, Colorado

ApexRMS, in collaboration with partners from the U.S. Geological Survey, hosted three in-person workshops at the SyncroSim 2023 User Conference. These workshops covered topics including an introduction to state-and-transition simulation models for landscape change modeling, a demonstration of the the Land Use and Carbon Simulator (LUCAS) for forecasting the effects of land use and land cover change on ecosystem carbon dynamics, and advanced features in SyncroSim.

October 31, 2022
Edmonton, Alberta

Led by ApexRMS and Natural Resources Canada, this workshop was delivered at the 2022 Wildland Fire Canada Conference. Workshop facilitators demonstrated new features available in BurnP3+ compared to the original Burn-P3, including the ability to take advantage of multiple fire growth models such as Prometheus and Cell2Fire. Participants also learned how they can enhance the BurnP3+ package through the development of custom add-on scripts.

July 21, 2022
Virtual Event

ApexRMS delivered this virtual workshop at the 2022 North American Congress for Conservation Biology, where attendees were introduced to landscape change modeling concepts. Topics included how to use ST-Sim to create simple landscape models, how to incorporate uncertainty into models, and how to extend the core functionality of ST-Sim to forecast changes in habitat, connectivity, carbon, and other ecosystem services.