Emily and Byron along with Stephen Freeman, Tom Breton and David Roy, have just had the paper “A generalized abundance index for seasonal invertebrates” published in Biometrics online early : http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/biom.12506/abstract
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Congratulations to SE@K PhD students for grant to support the Statistical Ecology Research Festival
Congratulations to Anita Jeyam, Marina Jimenez-Munoz, Natoya Jourdain, Ratchaneewan Kumphakarm, Ming Zhou and Julio Pereira for obtaining a grant of £1500 from the Eastern ARC Events Fund to support the Statistical Ecology Research Festival (SERF).
SE@K awarded funding from NERC for an Advanced Training Short Course
Rachel McCrea, Eleni Matechou, Richard Griffiths and Diana Cole have been awarded funding of £28 796 from NERC for an Advanced Training Short Course on Statistical models for wildlife population assessment and conservation. The course will take place in January 2017.
Emily gave seminar to the Ecology group at the University of Sheffield
On 17th February Emily gave a seminar to the Ecology group at the University of Sheffield, which was “Recent developments for modelling butterfly abundance”.
Congratulations to Guru, Byron and Martin for best Paper in JABES by an IBS Member
Congratulations to Guru, Byron and Martin. Their paper “Two Stage Bayesian Study Design for Species Occupancy Estimation” (JABES 19:278-291) has been selected as the 2014 winner of the competition for “Best Paper in JABES by an IBS Member”.
Diana gave seminar at The University of Newcastle
Diana gave a seminar entitled Parameter Redundancy and Identifiability in Ecological Models at the University of Newcastle on 27th November.
Congratulations to Emily who graduated today
Congratulations to Emily who graduated today. Her PhD thesis was Development of statistical methods for monitoring insect abundance.
Visit to Montpellier
Anita, Byron, Diana and Rachel visited Centre d’Ecologie Fontionnelle et Evolutive in Montpellier in November.
Anita and Rachel worked with Roger Pradel on aspects of diagnostic goodness-of-fit testing, finishing an existing collaborative project and planning the next.
Diana met with Remi Choquet to discuss extending the hybrid symbolic-numeric method for detecting parameter redundancy.
There was a one-day symposium at CNRS on the 13th November, in honour of Jean- Dominique Lebreton. Tributes included talks by Jim Nichols, Hal Caswell and Byron Morgan, whose talk was entitled Canterbury Tales. In the last case the talk traced research collaboration lasting over 25 years, and three generations of researchers. Its research focus was integrated population modeling.
Andy Royle reviews SE@K book Analysis of capture-recapture data written by Rachel and Byron
“Analysis of Capture–Recapture Data by McCrea and Morgan is an excellent, easy to read monograph about capture–recapture models …” Andy Royle writes in his review about the SE@K book Analysis of capture-recapture data written by Rachel and Byron. See http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13253-015-0202-9 for full review.
Emily Dennis gave SE@K talk
Emily Dennis gave a talk titled Recent developments for modelling butterfly abundance, which compared and described various methods for analysing UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme data. These methods include generalised additive models, generalised abundance indices and dynamic models.