Spatially explicit capture–recapture (SECR) is a set of methods for estimating animal population density and related parameters from data on marked individuals. The Columbia Mountains Institute is offering a 3-day course on SECR at Selkirk College, Castlegar, British Columbia, on 5–7 July 2016 (instructor Murray Efford).
The aim of this course is to give participants a practical understanding of SECR and its limitations through the experience of fitting models with the R package ‘secr’. Topics to be covered include: - concepts and assumptions underlying SECR - data preparation and checking - model fitting and evaluation - study design Advanced topics will be included as requested. The course fee is CND$575. Reasonably priced accommodation is available on campus. See the CMI website for further information: http://cmiae.org/event/spatially-explicit-capture-recapture-secr-modeling/ or contact Murray Efford directly.
