Training

April 14-16, 2026
York University, Toronto, ON

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

November 5th & 19th, 2025
Live, online webinar

This interactive, 3-hour online workshop introduced image classification concepts and workflows for ecological applications, using the ecoClassify package for SyncroSim. The sessions covered fundamentals of segmented image classification, machine learning algorithms, and practical modeling techniques. Participants learned how to build, run, and assess classifications on real datasets, and gained hands-on experience interpreting results such as accuracy metrics, confusion matrices, and variable importance charts.

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

This three-day, in-person course provided a foundation for developing and running spatially-explicit wildfire risk models using the BurnP3+ package for SyncroSim. The course covered 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.