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”.
Occupancy workshop
Diana, Eleni and Rachel gave a 3 day long workshop on occupancy modelling.
The workshop took place 13-15 of January at the University of Kent.
The 20 or so participants were exposed to the ideas behind basic and advanved occupancy models from classical and Bayesian perspectives.
There were theory and practical sessions, the latter covering R and Presence.
On the last day, participants discussed about their own projects and data with the SE@K group. All of the projects were interesting and some will undoubtedly lead to more collaborations in the future.
Eleni gave invited talk at the META workshop
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 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.
Eleni gave a seminar at the BTO
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 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.
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.