Summary
In March of 2023, INTERA hosted the “2nd PEST Conference – The Path from Data to Decisions” in La Jolla, California. The conference featured speakers, presentations and discussions around the following questions:
- What are the best metrics and practices for decision-support modeling?
- How can clients, regulators, and stakeholders understand how best to use modeling in decision-making?
- How complex does a decision-support model need to be (assuming we need a model at all)?
- How can we ensure that all sources of uncertainty have been accounted for, and that no unwanted surprises are lying in wait?
- How can disputes be better (and less expensively) settled through investigatory modeling?
- Please see below for additional information about the conference.
Conference Videos
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PEST Conference Presentation – Trevor Budge
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Rui Hugman
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Katherine Markovich
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Conference Website
Register Here – 2nd PEST Conference – The Path from Data to Decisions – Estancia La Jolla Hotel and Spa – La Jolla, CA, Mon Mar 6, 2023 – Fri Mar 10, 2023 (tickettailor.com)
Conference Program
Click here for the complete program.
Conference Abstracts
PEST-Conference_Presentation-Abstracts.pdf (intera.com)
Short Course Descriptions
Data Assimilation and Optimization: Concepts and Basic Math
Instructors: Jeremy White, John Doherty, Randy Hunt, Mike Fienen
Do not fear the maths. The concepts are more important than the equations; this course will discuss the concepts which the equations illuminate.
These concepts will help you to understand what happens under the hood of PEST and PEST++. But they go much further than this. They will help you understand what can be expected from decision-support modeling in general, and how the decision support modeling process can be tailored to achieve these expectations.
Discussions will not be limited to singular value decomposition. They will extend to how you can decompose an environmental problem in a way that allows modeling to address that problem. This knowledge can support the design of a sleek and efficient modeling process that can harvest information from data, direct it to the making of an important decision, and clarify the risks associated with that decision. In so doing, you can incorporate all that modeling can offer into the decision-making process.