We participate in inter-disciplinary teams to develop bio-economic models that link biological or biophysical processes with economic and demographic factors in order to predict system response to stressors such as environmental impairment and management actions such as species protection efforts:

Completed studies:

• Modeling of Lake Ontario Atlantic Salmon population dynamics to evaluate species protection options under the Canadian Species at Risk Act: 2007-08 (with ESSA Technologies Ltd)

• Modeling point-source/non-point source phosphorus trading programs to reduce aquatic pollution: (a) Bay of Quinte, Ontario Ministry of Environment and Energy, 1996-98; (b) Lake Simcoe, Lake Simcoe Conservation Authority , 1999-2000. (with D. Draper and Associates)

• Acid rain abatement – development of a linear programming screening model to determine cost-effective strategies for SO2 emission controls at 235 major point sources in eastern North America. For the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, 1983 (with E. A. McBean).

• Peat production potential in Ontario - evapo-transpiration models were used to assess opportunities to develop northern peat deposits. Ontario Ministry of Energy, 1985