CSIRO Experience

Marine and terrestrial socio-ecological models are powerful tools of observational data integration*, future scenarios analysis and the definition of safe operating spaces for human activities.

The whole-of-system models developed by CSIRO and its marine ecosystem modeling group have granted support information for decision making, marine regional planning, fishing management impacts, support for a sustainable aquaculture, alternative livelihoods, and also climate change comprehension and management, to a variety of national and international organisms (including the National Fishery Service, Australian government agencies, NOAA and the FAO).

The whole-of-system combines independent agent-based models, cellular automata, empirical models based on observations and models based on stochastic differential equations. Together, they simulate the temporal and spatial dynamics of the marine ecosystem and the activities carried out in the territory (land and sea).