Since it's first release EwE has been a free software and is developed on a non-profit basis. This will continue to be so. However, if you foresee that you need scientific or technical help when using the software please consider taking out a user support contract. Such a contract allows Ecopath Research and Development Consortium developers and scientists to dedicate time and effort to address your questions, solve issues that you discover and implement features that you may desire.

For more information please read our support section, and contact us by email to sign up.

A  Ph.D.  scholarship  is being offered at  the Institute of Marine Science (ICM-CSIC,  www.icm.csic.es) located in Barcelona (Spain). The Ph.D. candidate will study the ecological role of small and medium-sized pelagic fish as key elements in the transfer of energy within marine ecosystems. For more information see here

A job position is available at Cefas, see letter from Steve Mackinson here. The original job posting can be found here.

As per the weekend of 17 and 18 September, 2010 the Ecopath sources will have migrated to Visual Studio 2010. None of the projects will open anymore in Visual Studio 2008; if you access the EwE sources via SVN please be sure to update your working environment. This migration was necessary because of the code base of third-party components that are required by the next release of EwE.

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The new version of EwE6, version 6.2, is available for download. We ran a very successful Beta test period during May and June, and we want to express our thanks to all of the users that took their time to work with us to make this release better.

Version 6.2 focuses primarily on memory usage and performance. The EwE6 core and user interface have been thoroughly checked for proper memory usage, and fundamental fixes have been made resulting in a significantly more robust version of EwE6. Other changes include:

We are considering to migrate the EwE sources to Visual Studio 2010 in the near future and we would like feedback from you on this topic.

• Read and reply to the forum post about this topic here.
• Do the brief survey to express your thoughts here.

Thanks,
EwE dev team
 

The next version of EwE is coming, and we need you to help testing this new version. Please visit this forum post for more details and to download the BETA.

Two Ecosystem Modeller positions have opened up in Cefas Lowesoft, UK. Applications are due before May 22, 2011. Read more here.

Dear users,

A last-minute introduction of Price Elasticity has pushed back the new version of EwE 6 by a month. We just want to make sure that we give you a version that works well enough. Please let us know if you are interested in participating in the oncoming Beta version, scheduled for 14 May 2011. The official release of Ecopath 6.2 is now scheduled for 15 June 2011.

To see what is coming in the next version please check the EwE6 change log.

Best regards,

The EwE development team

We are happy to announce that a new release of Ecopath with Ecosim is coming! EwE version 6.2 is scheduled to be released on May 15, 2011, and a Beta release is scheduled for April 15, 2011.

The new version focuses on stability and performance issues more than anything else. Several bugs have been addressed and a few new features have been implemented, but a total audit of memory usage in Ecopath and Ecosim, and select parts of Ecospace, aim to ensure that you a much more robust version of EwE at your disposal. For a list of changes please check this link.

An Ecopath post-doc position has opened up in Rennes, France. Applications are due before March 15. Read more here.

The new version of EwE6, version 6.1.1, is available for download. We want to express our thanks to all of our users that provided useful feedback for this release. New features include:

We have received a lot of useful feedback on the current BETA release of EwE6, a big thank you for your participation. The release date of the next version of Ecopath 6 has been extended by one week to give us a bit more time for testing. If you have not done yet, please grab the BETA to see what is coming!

Hey all,
I am teaching an introduction to Ecopath early 2011 - 2-4 March. Application form here: http://www.sams.ac.uk/education/cpd/education/cpd/introduction-to-ecosystem-modelling-using-ecopath-and-ecosim
Sheila