FIMS Weekly - April 06–10, 2026

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Published

April 6, 2026

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THREE BIG THINGS THIS WEEK

  1. Jon is working on bringing more distributions into FIMS, including the Dirichlet-multinomial.

  2. Make a check-list of final tasks for the Surplus Production model.

  3. Continue work on the interface for random effects.

HELPFUL RESOURCES

FIMS ANNOUNCEMENTS

  • 14 days until the CIE Review.
  • Three case studies are back up and running.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Wednesday, April 01

UW SAFS Think Tank with Mark Maunder

Time: 12:30–13:30 E; 9:30–10:30 P; 8:30–9:30 AK; 6:30–7:30 H Location: Virtual Online: Go to webinar

PHOTO OF THE WEEK

Elizabeth and others worked a few weeks ago on editing an infographic to display user pathways. The work is now live on the FIMS organization website. Please feel to provide comments to Elizabeth if you have more ideas.

Five icons that lead to ideas for websites that would be of interest given what pathway you choose. The links are live and accessible on the noaa-fims website.