Environmental Mathematics

This is an Honours Pathway Course. It emphasises a sophisticated and critical analysis of environmental models and offered in association with Fenner School. Focus of the course will be on critical assessment of models used in published papers and one or more models will be coded and analysed to document their performance, limitations and potential improvements. This will include: - critical reviewing of papers - analytical exploration of the models described in the papers - coding models used in the papers and testing against actual or synthetic data - developing potentially improved model structures The assessment of the course will be based on written reports on selected papers, as well as a project exploring a particular paper/model in more detail. The key component of the project will be proposing potential improvements in the work done, and doing at least some initial work on evaluating these improvements. This will include components of: - analytical evaluation of model behaviour - coding the original and improved versions of the model and conducting sensitivity analysis - exploration of structure of uncertainty in model inputs. Note: This course will have shared lectures with MATH6102 but will have different tutorials and assessment which will emphasise a more sophisticated approach to the evaluation of the models.