Rachel, Eleni, Ming, Anita, Byron and Diana attend the Royal Statistical Society Conference in Exeter.

On Tuesday evening Ming presented a poster on Novel removal models for amphibian and reptile populations. We are delighted that Ming won the runner-up prize for her poster.

n Wednesday afternoon Diana and Anita gave talks in the contributed session on ecology. Diana’s talk was on Parameter Redundancy in Ecological Integrated Population Models and Anita’s talk was on Detecting heterogeneity in capture-recapture models: diagnostic goodness-of-fit tests and score tests.

Later Wednesday afternoon Eleni and Rachel, along with Roland from St Andrews, gave invited talks in a session on Recent Advances in Statistical Ecology. This was part of the invited sessions organized by The Environmental Statistics Section of Royal Statistical Society. Eleni talked on Bayesian non-parametric population ecology models and Rachel talked on Integrated population model selection in ecology.

Wednesday evening Byron gave a talk on Multivariate methods and ecology as part of a special session celebrating the work of Wojtek Krzanowoski.