Dear DSSAT users in Washington, DC-area – On December 4th, come to the DC DSSAT User Group meeting and mingle with the core developers of DSSAT. Hear from the DSSAT insiders about what’s new and what’s coming. You will have chances to also share how you use DSSAT and what’s your wishlist items.
07
Nov
Meeting Note from Long Beach, CA: Open Forum on Crop Modeling and Decision Support Systems 2014
It was great catching up with you, fellow crop modelers at the Open Forum! Here is the meeting note for those of you who couldn’t join us. Hope to see you all again at the next forum in 2015!
20
Oct
Guess how many DSSAT users are in the world: 5,000 (and counting)!
On October 19th, 2014, the total number of unique (since some users requested multiple times) DSSAT v4.5 download requests surpassed 5,000 – another new big milestone showing the worldwide interest in DSSAT and its strong community! Cumulative number of download requests by quarter shows almost linear, continuous increase of DSSAT users since its public release […]
02
Sep
DSSAT Foundation Open Forum on Crop Modeling and Decision Support Systems 2014
The DSSAT Foundation will be sponsoring the annual Open Forum on Crop Modeling and Decision Support Systems during this year’s ASA-CSSA-SSSA 2014 Annual Meetings. The forum is an informal discussion about crop modeling and decision support systems and open to anyone.
02
Sep
How should we improve models? Tell us what you think!
The ILSI Research Foundation, Center for Integrated Modeling of Sustainable Agriculture and Nutrition Security (CIMSANS) is hosting a September workshop to evaluate methods for improving models that are needed to carry out a Sustainable Nutrition Security Assessment. To support workshop discussions, several surveys intended for model developers, users or individuals interested in model outputs have […]
25
May
Noticed something new? We’ve got a new logo!
Yes, we’ve got a new logo! As we approaches a new milestone of DSSAT v4.6, we ran a logo design contest at 99designs.com, a crowd-sourcing platform targeted for designing projects. For about two weeks of contest period in April 2014, total of 54 designers worldwide submitted 195 designs. After several rounds of internal review among […]
25
May
DSSAT Training Workshop 2014 at the University of Georgia
The largest crop modeling training workshop of the year – the 2014 DSSAT Training Workshop was successfully held at the University of Georgia’s Griffin Campus during the week of May 19th. Total of 57 participants, representing 22 countries, attended the 6-day workshop to learn from the science and background of various components of the cropping systems modeling to […]
07
Apr
DSSAT Training 2014 for Agricultural Economists
Organized by AGRODEP, IFPRI, and DSSAT Foundation, a DSSAT Training Workshop was held in Dakar, Senegal, in April 2014. Thirteen AGRODEP members from seven countries were trained to learn the background and science of crop system modeling, preparing the model input data and understanding model outputs, and the operation of DSSAT v4.6 and its applications.
28
Mar
European Society for Agronomy Congress 2014: 25-29 August in Debrecen, Hungary
European Society for Agronomy organizes the 8th ESA Congress – hosted by the Centre for Agricultural and Applied Economic Sciences of the University of Debrecen, Hungary between 25-28 August 2014. Jon Lizaso, Professor at the Technical University of Madrid (and one of the core DSSAT Development Team), will give a keynote speech “IMPROVING CROP MODELS: […]
27
Mar
“Climate Change and African Agricultre” – Three regional studies from IFPRI
In December 2013, IFPRI published a series of three books presenting climate change impact assessment studies for three regions of Africa: East, Southern, and West Africa. Each study used DSSAT to assess the potential impacts of climate change scenarios on crop growth and yields, which were used as an input to the IMPACT global food […]
