Also available is a Polycom VSX 5000 videoconferencing unit and a 30in Dell LCD panel. The conference room has a PolyVision electronic white board, a conference table for meetings accommodating up to eight people. A VPN server and Linux firewall secure the laboratory. The ten dual Xeon (3.8 GHz) rack mounted workstations are used to support modeling and analysis and twenty-four 1 Gb/s CAT6 network lines provide high speed data transfer. A Dell PowerVault Autoloader Tape Backup Library (LTO-2) that stores and retrieves up to twenty-four 432 GB tapes (for a total of 9.1 TB) is used for long-term backup. Two Dell PowerVault 221S SCSI raid disk storage systems (with 5.2 TB of storage) serves as the centralize storage facility for the lab. The HPCC is composed of nine low (2GB) computational nodes and one high (8GB RAM) node. The computational lab houses student workspaces each containing a high-end workstation with dual flat panel monitors. Research focuses on the development of spatially explicit models The HEMA lab is composed of (a) two large computational labs, (b) a high tech conference room and (c) a computer room with a High Performance Compute Cluster (HPCC). Grounded in the theoretical framework of complex socio-ecological systems, research in the HEMA lab employs advanced technologies and methodologies from a wide array of disciplines. The FNR Human-Environment Modeling and Analysis (HEMA) Laboratory located in Forestry 204-206 is devoted to the study of the causes and consequences of land use/cover change. Human-Environment Modeling and Analysis Lab (HEMA)

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