This morning, Ethan and I met with Dr. Aziz and his graduate student Leah. Leah explained the research that she is working on. Basically, she’s trying to design a water filter that will use fungus to chemically convert harmful pollutants in water into something less harmful.
We then spent the remainder of the day playing around with NetLogo, which is the software that we’ll mainly be using to create simulations. We explored the Wolf-Sheep Predation model and the Enzyme Kinetics model and modified the parameters on the models to see how the changes would affect the results.
The Wolf-Sheep model showed how the populations of wolves, sheep, and grass changed based on various parameters, and the Enzyme Kinetics model showed how various parameters affected the concentrations of substrate, complex, and product.
Below is an image of the Enzyme Kinetics model.
