This will be a two-part meeting. The morning session will consist of a 3 hour workshop run by Professor Murray Lark (University of Nottingham) for approximately 30 participants and will include aspects of both design-based and model-based approaches to spatial sampling schemes. The workshop will be practical and interactive using the R platform, and packages including BalancedSampling and spcosa. Participants should have basic R skills. The spcosa package requires rjava, so participants are advised to install it and check it in advance of the workshop to ensure that their R and Java specifications are compatible. Scripts and data sets will be provided in advance of the workshop.

The afternoon session will be a series of 3 webinars given by Professor Janine Illian (University of Glasgow), Dr Peter Henrys (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology) and Dr Eleni Matechou (University of Kent) and will discuss some advanced topics in spatial sampling such as monitoring networks, citizen science data and preferential sampling.

Abstracts will be provided in due course at the event webpage.

Date: 24/03/2020

Venue: Zoom – joining details will be circulated prior to the event

Morning workshop: 09:30-12:30 (GMT)

Afternoon webinar: 13:30-15:45 (GMT)

Note both events are free of charge for BIR members. For non-members there is a £30 registration fee to attend the morning workshop. Further details on BIR membership can be found here and is free for students and members of the wider IBS community.

Please direct any queries to the meeting organiser: Kirsty Hassall, kirsty.hassall@rothamsted.ac.uk