There are still some seats available for our upcoming workshop:
On 27-30 October 2015 Duke Environmental Leadership program in
collaboration with the University of St Andrews will offer a workshop on
spatial modelling methods for distance sampling line transect data.
The workshop will cover: the basics of organizing survey data in ArcGIS
using the MGET toolbox, developed at the Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab,
Duke; followed by building and evaluating spatially explicit models of
abundance (using environmental predictors) in R, using packages
developed at the Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental
Modelling, St Andrews. The aim will be to demonstrate an end-to-end
workflow for spatial modelling of distance sampling data, and illustrate
the underlying theory behind both spatial modelling using generalized
additive models and distance sampling (we will focus on the "density
surface modelling" approach).
The course is intended for graduate students/postdocs/faculty in applied
ecology, government/industry scientists and wildlife managers interested
in developing spatially explicit models of abundance. Prior knowledge of
R and ArcGIS will be highly advantageous, as is a quantitative background.
The course will be taught by David L Miller (St Andrews) and Jason J
Roberts (Duke), at the Duke campus in Durham, NC, USA.
The deadline for registration is 12 October 2015.
Detailed information on the course content and registration can be found
at https://nicholas.duke.edu/del/distance and
http://distancesampling.org/workshops/duke-spatial-2015/. Please feel
free to contact me if you have any questions not covered there.
