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In August 2014, we provided the second summercourse on dynamic modelling in ecotoxicology. Impressions. |
18 June 2013. Elke Zimmer and Ben Martin successfully defended their PhD theses! Congratulations! More info on Elke's thesis and Ben's thesis. |
Cancelled: the 2013 PhD summer course "Dynamic modelling of toxic effects". More details about the course over here. |
Mike Newman offers his course on quantitative methods in ecotoxicology (in the US) from 17-21 June 2013. See brochure. |
Webcast minicourse on DEB principles by Roger Nisbet 31 January till 21 February, see course description. An excellent starting point for people doing the DEB telecourse. |
On 24-26 April 2013, the third international DEB symposium was held on the island of Texel in the Netherlands. Details over here. |
In 2012, the first PhD summer course "Dynamic modelling of toxic effects" was held on 11-18th of August in Denmark, which focussed on TKTD modelling in general, and on GUTS and DEBtox in particular. Impressions from the 2012 course can be found over here. More details about the course over here. |
8 December 2018: a new version of the GUTS e-book has been released at Leanpub. Most important change is in the statistical treatment. See version log at the support page for more details. |
15 November 2018: a new version of the DEBkiss e-book has been released at Leanpub. |
15 August 2018: update to the ring test results for BYOM. See the guts e-book page. |
18 January 2018: The long-awaited GUTS e-book is released in Version 1.0! More information. |
24 July 2017: Update of the "Making sense of chemical stress" e-book. Improved readability and update with new developments. |
6 December 2016: New version of the DEBkiss book published. More information. |
14 August 2015: small update to the technical document, adding a section on joint confidence regions. |
11-12 August 2015: the e-books "Making sense of chemical stress" and "DEBkiss" have both been moved to the Leanpub publishing framework, and can be downloaded here and here, respectively. You can still get them for free, but also have the possibility to pay me (which will support future development of this and other books). |
4 April 2015: small update of the DEBkiss book. |
11 February 2015: New version of the DEBkiss book. |
11 February 2015: Small update of the technical background document. |
15 October 2014: New version 1.1 of the e-book "Making sense of chemical stress" over here. Added a chapter with two case studies. |
15 June 2014. Version 1.1 of the e-book on DEBkiss is now available over here. Some minor changes. |
18 May 2014. Version 1.0 of the e-book on DEBkiss is now available over here. Basically an embellished version of our JTB paper. |
14 June 2013. Version 1.0 of the e-book now available for download over here. Small changes relative to Beta 1 version. |
20 Sept. 2012. The first Beta 1 version of the technical document for the e-book over here. |
9 April 2012. The first Beta 1 version of the free e-book "Making Sense of Chemical Stress" is available for download over here. |
7 September 2018: small update of BYOM to v. 4.2c and updated GUTS package v. 2.3. More details on the BYOM page. |
13 August 2018: a quick update of BYOM to v. 4.2b. This was needed as I found some errors in conjunction with GUTS package. See BYOM page for details. |
9 August 2018: updates of packages 'dose-response', 'acute Calanus', and 'support marecotox'. The dose-response package also has a nicer walkthrough. See BYOM page. |
7 August 2018: new version of BYOM and the GUTS package, fixing the issue with the likelihood-region method. More details on the BYOM page. |
28 June 2018: running simulations for GUTS, I am getting confirmation that the likelihood-region method (as implemented in BYOM) is yielding exaggerated confidence intervals on model predictions. More details on the BYOM page. |
In 2018/2019 we will be producing a user-friendly software for GUTS. More information. |
1 February 2018: New versions of BYOM and the GUTS package. See the BYOM page. |
12 May 2017: Spotted a small error in BYOM when calculatin the intervals on LC50s with the likelihood-region method. This corrected in a small update to version 4.01. |
27-28 April 2017: Release of BYOM 4.0 on the BYOM page. This is a major update, with many new features, but old scripts and packages will not work anymore! All packages have been updated; the two GUTS packages have been combined, and some have been renamed for clarity. |
6 April 2017: Added the Beta 3 test version of BYOM 4.0 on the BYOM page. Also a new version of the GUTS package is included. |
15 February 2017: Added a Beta test version of BYOM 4.0 on the BYOM page. This is still under testing, but feel free to play with it. Also, I added some warnings for users of profiling and slice sampling with BYOM. |
5 January 2017: New version of the BYOM platform available for download. |
7 April 2016. Small update of the BYOM modelling framework in Matlab. |
25 and 27 August: another update of BYOM (sorry, found some small errors again). Additionally, an updated version of the DEBtox1 package (also demonstrating the improved population growth rate calculation). Updates of GUTS1 and DEBkiss1 packages. And ... a totally new package: DEBkiss_tox1, which is DEBkiss turned into a TKTD model. 29 August: update of the GUTS2 and DEBkiss2 package as well. All packages now have a walk through. |
21 August: update of BYOM. Corrected a few errors and added some new functionality that will be demonstrated in future packages. |
30 June 2015: update of BYOM. Corrected some errors and included a few extra options. |
17 April 2015: update of DEBtoxM flavours Surv, GUTS and DEBtox. The DEB3 flavour is no longer offered. |
3 April 2015: major update of BYOM. Some alternative optimisation methods are included, plus the possibility to fit parameters on log-scale. And ... the possibility to publish the code in Matlab (see the walkthrough of the BYOM code). Also a new version of the manual is provided. |
18 February 2015: update of BYOM and the GUTS2 package. Main change is to avoid warnings with newer versions on Matlab (due to different way of dealing with interpolations), and the option to plot in black-and-white with different symbols (as in the DEBtoxM flavours). |
2 January 2015: tiny 2.02 update for BYOM, and extended the BYOM manual, and gave a seperate entry on the BYOM download page. |
17 December 2014: New version of the BYOM files to version 2.0. Major change is the possibility to have more than one data set per stage, and a brand new simulation engine. As of version 1.5, cleaner and simpler BYOM scripts. New packages for GUTS, DEBtox and some nice examples for the simulator! (Version 2.01 also has a small update to the manual). |
29 November 2014: New version of the BYOM files. Major change is the removal of the calculation and plotting from the basic script into an engine script, which takes away a lot of complexity from the user. |
1 May 2014. New version 1.5 of BYOM files posted over here. Also, a new package general package for DEBkiss. |
29 Jan. 2013. New version 1.4 of the BYOM package, and the GUTS and DEBkiss packages over here. |
29 Aug. 2012. New version 1.3 of the BYOM package over here. |
30 June 2012. The flexible modelling platform BYOM is available over here. |
19 May 2012. New versions of all flavours posted over here. New versions were needed because of an error in the calculation of the likelihood function for replicated graded data (with different number of individuals per replicate). Further, changes are made to increase flexibility and ease of operation. |
9 January 2019: new paper on automated high-throughput measurements of body size (which could really facilitate DEB(tox) application in the future). Open access. Note that this is my 100th (co-)authored paper ;-). |
8 August 2018: new paper out on modelling bioenergetics in early life stages of cod: 50-day free download link. |
1 January 2017: Our GUTS paper has just hit 100 citations in Web of Science! DOI 10.1021/es103092a. |
October 2016: The book "Marine Ecotoxicology: current Knowledge and Future Issues" has just come out. I wrote a chapter "Dynamic modelling for uptake and effects of chemicals" in there. The book can obtained from Elsevier or your favourite bookstore, or via ScienceDirect. The support page for my chapter can be found over here. |
Jager T, Ravagnan E (2015). Parameterising a generic model for the dynamic energy budget of Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba. Mar Ecol Progr Ser 519:115-128 DOI 10.3354/meps11098. |
Just appeared: the 2014 special issue on DEB research in the Journal of Sea Research. Find it here. |
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Educational travel is an opportunity for teachers and community leaders to use the world as their classroom. As group leaders, educators lead their students abroad on tours that range in duration from a few days to several weeks. During that time, students can experience many of the things they have read about in textbooks or learned to say in language classes, placing classroom lessons into a real world context. |
Who travels on an educational tour? |
Typically, educational tours are led by teachers who want to engage their students by taking learning outside the classroom. Group leaders are often high school teachers who teach foreign languages, social studies, art, English and science courses. But anyone who wants to enrich young people’s lives can lead such a tour. Student travelers are typically in high school but can also be in middle school or college. Anyone who wants to learn about the world by experiencing it firsthand can find a place on an educational tour. |
What are the benefits for teachers who take students on a tour? |
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What are the benefits for students who go on a tour? |
In addition to the life-changing benefits of seeing the world, students who travel on an educational tour can earn credit by completing coursework associated with some of the tours. As more and more colleges expect students to have had international experiences, educational travel enhances students’ college applications and prepares them for a more international higher education experience. Many students have also credited traveling on an educational tour with inspiring them to study abroad and even influencing their career direction. |
Rome: Pizza-making – students learn how to make a classic Italian favorite from expert chefs! |
Madrid: Flamenco or Fado lessons – students learn the age-old art of the Fado song or the rhythmic steps of flamenco. |
London: Globe Theatre Workshop – students practice the dramatic art by reciting the works of Shakespeare and learning about stagecraft. |
China: Cultural immersion – students get a glimpse of Chinese culture by visiting a local family for dinner, visiting a school and learning about traditional and modern Chinese medicine with a visit to a local hospital. |
Africa: Young Rangers activities – students partake in hands-on activities designed to give them a feel for what life is like in the wilderness. |
SPECIALIZED OR MORE GENERAL EDUCATION FOR STUDENTS OF TOURISM? |
I am mostly recovered from my marathon month of January finishing Little Shop of Murders. I think it's going to be a fun read.I can't wait for my publisher's feedback on revision suggestions. |
We've kicked around some cover art ideas for the new book, and it's exciting to picture it as real. |
And BrigaDOOM! About three weeks until we see it in the stores! I am beside myself with excitement. |
Meanwhile, I have turned my hat around, and I'm on my way for the promotional part of the process. This will be a real learning curve, but then everything about writing and publishing seems to be that way. |
Plus I'm percolating on the next book, my fingers are getting itchy to start. |
Washington – The Republican leaders in Congress are distancing themselves from President Donald Trump’s invitation for Vladimir Putin to visit Washington in the fall, saying the Russian president is not welcome on Capitol Hill. |
Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have shown no interest in holding meetings with Putin if he accepts Trump’s invitation to the White House to follow up on last week’s summit in Helsinki. |
“The speaker and I have made it clear that Putin will not be welcome up here at the Capitol,” McConnell told reporters Tuesday. |
But it may not matter anyway. Putin’s foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov threw cold water on the prospect of Putin accepting Trump’s invitation to visit the White House. |
Ushakov told journalists in Moscow on Tuesday that no preparations were underway for a meeting in Washington and there were “other options that our leaders could consider,” such as the late November meeting of the Group of 20 in Argentina or another international event that both would attend. |
Lawmakers from both parties have raised concerns about Trump’s approach to the Russian leader. They strongly rebuked Trump’s comments during a joint press conference in Helsinki when he stood beside Putin and denied U.S. intelligence findings that Russia interfered in the 2016 election. Trump has since clarified his remarks to side with the intelligence community. |
“The Russians better quit messing around in our elections,” McConnell said. |
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