AQUAEXCEL: Using modelling as a tool for experimental design

Participants will be trained in the use of numerical models as efficient tools for designing research experiments. They will gain a good understanding of the interaction between biological and physical factors within aquaculture research, including growth, nutrition, waste production, water quality, water treatment and hydrodynamic flow fields. The course is built around an aquaculture virtual lab that participants will be able to test.

Target audience:

Aquaculture researchers with a non-modelling background. Can also be useful for students in aquaculture, both from technology and biology.

Course Outline

• Using numbers in aquaculture research
• Growth Models - nutrition and waste production models
• Growth Models - new species
• Fish behaviour model
• Flow field modelling
• Integrated Model of environment and fish biology
• Introduction to use of the virtual Laboratory structure
• Practical exercises