Previous seminars

Keeping it discrete: challenges with population modeling of continuous processes

Date: 26 May 2023
Time: 1:00 pm
Location: Seminar Room, The Observatory
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Speaker: Dan Linden, Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NOAA)

Using distance sampling to understand how sea-going citizen scientists detect marine birds

Date: 24 May 2023
Time: 2:00 pm
Location: Seminar Room, The Observatory
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Speaker: Michael Schrimpf, Cornell University  Abstract: Ecotourists are increasingly crossing the open ocean on cruises, collecting citizen science data on seabirds as they do. These data can be useful for monitoring species distributions, but only if factors affecting the detection of birds from such ships are better understood. We partnered with the Antarctic expedition cruise…

Integrating individual movement processes into population models

Date: 17 May 2023
Time: 2:00 pm
Location: Seminar Room, The Observatory
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Speaker: Beth Gardner, University of Washington Abstract: Understanding of the ecological processes that drive populations requires knowledge not only of demographic rates (e.g., abundance, survival, reproduction) but also of how animals use space through resource selection and movement. For example, individual movement is a key driver of population dynamics for recolonizing species. To incorporate both…

Seminar – Fast fitting of NODEs by Bayesian neural gradient matching.

Date: 3 May 2023
Time: 2:00 pm
Location: Seminar Room, The Observatory
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Speaker: Willem Bonnaffeé, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford Abstract: Neural ordinary differential equations (NODEs) allow us to nonparametrically infer ecological interactions from time series data. NODEs however are slow to fit. We developed a fitting method, Bayesian neural gradient matching (BNGM), which reduces NODEs fitting times to only a few seconds. We test…

Development of a new control rule for managing anthropogenic removals of protected, endangered or protected species in marine ecosystems

Date: 19 April 2023
Time: 2:00 pm
Location: Seminar Room, The Observatory
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Speaker: Matthieu Authier, Pelagis Observatory, France Title: Development of a new control rule for managing anthropogenic removals of protected, endangered or protected species in marine ecosystems Abstract: By-catch, the unintentional catch of other species during fishing operations targeting commercial species, is a major threat to many marine Protected, Endangered or Threatened Species (PETS) including cetaceans.…

Seminar – Philipp Boersch-Supan,

Date: 22 March 2023
Time: 2:00 pm
Location: Seminar Room, The Observatory
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Speaker: Philipp Boersch-Supan, British Trust for Ornithology Postponed

Statistical ecology for large scale ecological monitoring – an applied perspective

Date: 8 March 2023
Time: 2:00 pm
Location: Seminar Room, The Observatory
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Determining between biological, operational, and behavioural drivers of sustained schistosomiasis transmission.

Date: 8 February 2023
Time: 2:00 pm
Location: Seminar Room, The Observatory
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Dynamic soaring in the winds of change. The effects of wind and oceanography on the population and spatial ecology of seabirds.

Date: 25 January 2023
Time: 2:00 pm
Location: Online
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Speaker:  Francesco Ventura, Woods Hold Oceanographic Institute, USA

Art in Science Communication

Date: 7 December 2022
Time: 2:00 pm
Location: Seminar Room, the Observatory
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Speaker: Maria Zacharias, University of Lisbon

Forthcoming seminars