Bridging Ecology Workshop - 10th & 11th March

Bridging Ecology, Bioacoustics and Environmental Statistics to assess animal populations

This workshop will take place in Infolab C75

We intend to run this workshop as a hands-on practical workshop, with real data and analysis being performed. Proposers Nunes and Barlow have been working on similar challenges since 2023, to estimate Amazonian bird population density though acoustics and proposer McCrea has vast experience in traditional population size estimation methods. We intend to bring together specialists on passive acoustic monitoring, bird ecology, spatial-temporal statistics, time-series models and distance sampling. Many participants have a strong track record of achieving impact outside academia and we plan to develop findings into a research article accompanied by an online webinar (Applied Ecology Resources series) and an easy-to-follow document for practitioners. Finally, we expect that by building new research partnerships, we will open the possibility of future collaborative projects and funding applications

Day One - 10th March

9.00 - 9.20 Arrival with Coffee and Danish! Introducing the workshop and each other

9.20 - 10.30 State of the art/what we are working on

10.30 - 10.45 Mid-morning break with coffee

10.45 - 12.15 Brainstorm - revisiting methods and assumptions (biological and statistical)

12.15 - 13.15 Lunch

13.15 - 14.45 Breakout groups to work on highest ranked methods

14.45 - 15.00 Afternoon break with coffee

15.00 - 16.30 Breakout groups to use real data to overcome challenges (designing simulations etc)

16.30 - 17.00 Consolidation of the day - broad structure of a perspective paper

End 5pm

Meal at The Sun in Lancaster City Centre

Day Two - 11th March

9.30 - 11.00 Shared doc to work as a group on the structure of the paper

11.00 - 11.15 Mid-morning break with coffee

11.15 - 12.00 Consolidating defining roles/closing the workshop

12.00 - 13.00 Lunch

End

10th March - Evening Meal at The Sun 6.30/7pm

Pre-order required.

Make your meal choices (starter/main/dessert) on the order form with this registration.

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If you have any questions please email - j.carradus1@lancaster.ac.uk