RUWPA is a contract-funded research group specializing in the development of new statistical methods and innovative applications of existing methods. We have expertise and experience in most aspects of wildlife assessment and survey design. Ongoing research is being conducted in the following topics:

• Distance sampling methods
• Mark-recapture methods
• Spatial and spatio-temporal modelling
• Generalized Additive Models for wildlife population assessment
• Markov Chain Monte-Carlo methods for wildlife population assessment
• Automated survey design
• Integrating sample data and population dynamics models
• Stage-structured population modelling
• Model Selection
• Adaptive sampling
• Database and Distance sampling estimation software development
• Trend analysis