Dr, Roel Boumans, is the chief designer and architect of MIMES. He is employed by the EPA as a Special Government Employee (SGE); he is also a Senior Scientist for Earth Economics, a non-profit in Tacoma, Washington. With Earth Economics and the Tulalip tribe he worked on simulation models to explore the consequences of land management decisions to tribal values. At Boston University he is a fellow at the Pardee Institute for the Study of Long Term Futures. Dr. Boumans is also involved with the Henri Tudor Institute in Luxembourg, for exploration of applying Life Cycle Analyses (LCA) within Ecosystem Based Management (EBM).The Multi-scale Integrated Model of Ecosystem Services or MIMES is written in a coding language called Simile (Simulistics Inc.) and has an integrated architecture that consists of compartments for “spheres” (e.g. biosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, atmosphere, anthroposphere) and compartments for ecosystem service production defined within a location. Flows of materials, people, and services are coupled among locations through input-output linkages. Through MIMES projects, he is simulating the tradeoffs in the simultaneous production of and demands for ecosystem goods and services in coastal Massachusetts, Brazil, New Zealand, and Cambodia. MIMES couples dynamic changes in ecosystem and market economics simultaneously across spatial and temporal scales.