Eleni presented her work on

Modelling individual migration patterns using a Bayesian nonparametric approach for capture-recapture data

at the first  META (Mathematical Ecology: theory and applications) workshop, which took place at the University of Birmingham.

The workshop, titled

Analytical and computational methods for multiscale ecology, 

was partly funded by the London Mathematical Society and brought together academics and PhD students interested in models for ecological phenomena http://web.mat.bham.ac.uk/N.B.Petrovskaya/META.htm

Diana gave a seminar entitled Parameter Redundancy and Identifiability in Ecological Models  at the University of Newcastle on 27th November.

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.

Eleni presented her work on models for stopover and related data sets at the BTO in Thetford on the 23rd of October. The talk covered both standard and more recent stopover models applied to data on migrating  and breeding birds, breeding great crested newts and common blue butterflies.

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.

Rachel McCrea gave a Durrell Institute for Conservation and Ecology seminar at the University of Kent on 1st October.  She talked about Multistate models for ecological data and described four projects she is currently involved with in collaboration with DICE. The projects involve a number of members of SE@K, including PhD student Ming Zhou and colleagues Eleni Matechou and Diana Cole.