The Virtual Ecosystem Scenario Viewer

Please join a special webinar tomorrow:

Tuesday, June 16, at 2 pm EDT

The Virtual Ecosystem Scenario Viewer:

A new tool for visualizing marine ecosystem models

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To successfully monitor and recover marine species requires an understanding of the entire ocean ecosystem and the suite of impacts on their survival. Toward this end, NOAA uses sophisticated modeling tools that incorporate population biology and a range of climate, environmental, ecological and human impacts to the ocean. The complexity of these models – making them so robust – limits the ability of most peple to understand them. The Virtual Ecosystem Scenario Viewer (VES-V) is an exciting new interactive visualization tool that show the results of these complex modeling dynamics in an easy-to-view manner.

VES-V illustrates the responses of virtual marine ecosystems to a range of living marine resource management scenarios. These visualizations help all people see the application of models in managing marine resources, and explore tradeoffs among scenarios in making decisions effecting our nation’s marine ecosystems. This tool demonstrates how we can better present and visualize marine ecosystems, their marine resources, and their collective responses to a range of pressures. VES-V holds enormous potential as an intuitive interactive problem based visualization tool for students and the public.

Find out more about this exciting new tool!