Current Workshops:
21st - 24th August 2012
The general objective of this 4 day workshop is to give wildlife managers, ecologists and statisticians a solid grounding in the basic methods for design and analysis of distance sampling surveys. Teaching will be a combination of lectures, computer sessions and discussion groups.
25th August 2012
Passive acoustic monitoring is often used to obtain indices of relative abundance, such as number of detections per unit time. However, for many applications, the quantity we really want to estimate is absolute population abundance (i.e., the number of animals in the population) or
density (number of animals per unit area). This one day workshop will give an insight into methods to achieve this.
27th - 30th August 2012
The advanced distance sampling workshop will include advanced treatment of using covariates in detection function modelling, analyses in which detectability on the transect line is not assumed to be perfect (the so-called g(0) problem), density surface modelling (otherwise known as spatial modelling).
Enquiries: rhona@mcs.st-and.ac.uk