Virtual Prairie

Introduction
Virtual Prairie allows your computer to help simulate and compare real world growth to virtual to establish a model to help with establishing ecological guidlines for prairies with the best potential for water purification. The model will allow many more experiements to be conducted within a shorter amount of time than actually having to indiviudually grow and control each variation of prairie design.

Contents

1 Videos 2 Science 3 Results 4 Links of Interest 5 Virtual Prairie in the Classroom

Videos

Science

[The Science section might (or might not) be divided into two parts: {1} general discussion of the field, and then {2} a discussion of the project's specific endeavor. For instance, in LHC@home, we might have {1} "Science of the Large Hardon Collider" and then {2} "Science of LHC@home"
The above is desirable, because in most cases, the field of research is really fascinating, and presenting this in broad terms-- outlining the big questions-- can make it easier to understand the particulars of the project and why it is important. ]

Results

1. Garbey, M., Mony, C. & Smaoui, M. (2008). Parallel Multiscale Software for fluid flow- Agent Based Hybrid Models. 20th international Conference of Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics 18-22 mai 2008, France.
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2. Garbey, M. (2008). Virtual Prairies with Boinc. The 4th Pan-Galactic BOINC Workshop, September 11-12, 2008 ,INRIA Grenoble, France.
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3. Mony, C., Garbey, M. & Smaoui, M. (2008). Using modelling to understand clonal strategies in optimal growing conditions. 51st annual Symposium of the International Association for Vegetation Science 7-12 septembre 2008, South Africa.
   
   
4. Smaoui, M., Garbey, M. & Mony, C. Volunteer computing for ecology: the Virtual Prairie BOINC project, accepted for publication in IEEE Asia-Pacific Services
   Computing Conference (IEEE APSCC 2008), Taiwan.

Links of Interest

[Why recreate the wheel; there are lots of great sources out there.; a good list of sources can be really useful to the reader.]

Virtual Prairie in the Classroom

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