Center for Biodiversity Analysis: Gen3sis Workshop 2024

Author

Alexander Skeels and Oskar Hagen

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Welcome to the CBA sponsored workshop on the Gen3sis biodiversity simulation software! We’ll be using this Quarto book to navigate through the workshop practicals. Quarto allows us to embed R code throughout. The workshop will be (roughly) following this program. Enjoy!

Program

ANU

Day 1

Time Event
09:00 - 09:50 πŸ‘‹β˜• Welcome (Platypus Room) - Coffee, introductions, and overview of Gen3sis workshop
09:50 - 11:00 πŸŽ“ Lecture 1 - Oskar Hagen (Eucalyptus Room): From German Romanticism to modern computational biodiversity models
11:00 - 11:15 β˜• Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:00 πŸ› οΈ Practical 1 - Gettin’ Started: Installation and Set Up
12:00 - 12:30 πŸ› οΈ Practical 2 - Configure Skating: Gen3sis Config Basics
12:30 - 13:30 🍽️ Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:30 πŸ› οΈ Practical 2 - Configure Skating: Gen3sis Config Basics
15:30 - 15:45 β˜• Coffee Break
15:45 - 16:30 🏝️ Practical 3 - Island Hopping: Explore a model island system
16:30 - 17:00 ❓ Questions / Wrap up Day 1

Day 2

Time Event
09:00 - 10:00 πŸŽ“ Lecture 2 - Alex and Oskar (Platypus Room): Inference from simulated biodiversity data
10:00 - 10:30 🌍 Practical 4.1 - Silicodiversity: Gen3sis outputs and patterns
10:30 - 10:45 β˜• Coffee Break
10:45 - 12:30 🌍 Practical 4.2 - Silicodiversity: Gen3sis outputs and patterns
12:30 - 13:30 🍽️ Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:15 πŸŽ“ Lecture 3 - Tristan Salles (Platypus Room): Paleoenvironmental models and data
14:15 - 14:45 πŸ’¬ Discussion
14:45 - 15:00 β˜• Coffee Break
15:00 - 16:30 🌍 Practical 5 - Creating Worlds: Modifying landscapes as inputs for Gen3sis
16:30 - 17:00 ❓ Questions / Wrap up Day 2

Day 3

Time Event
09:00 - 10:00 πŸŽ“ Lecture 4 - Alex and Oskar: Designing simulation experiments with Gen3sis
10:00 - 10:30 🀝️ Practical 6 - Sandbox: Implementing models in Gen3sis
10:30 - 10:45 β˜• Coffee Break
10:45 - 12:30 🀝️ Practical 6 - Sandbox: Implementing models in Gen3sis
12:30 - 13:30 🍽️ Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:45 🀝️ Wrapping up Sandbox
14:45 - 15:00 β˜• Coffee Break
15:00 - 16:00 🎀 Presenting Sandbox models / Wrap up Day 3
16:00 - 16:10 πŸ”„ Feedback session - Gathering final thoughts and suggestions
16:10 🍻 Pub!