Technical Reports:

• Bouchet, P, Harris, CM and Thomas, L (2020) Simulating cetacean responses to sonar exposure within a Bayesian hierarchical modelling framework: technical report. CREEM Technical Report, no. 2020-01, University of St Andrews.

• Bouchet PJ, Miller DL, Roberts JJ, Mannocci L, Harris CM and Thomas L (2019) From here and now to there and then: Practical recommendations for extrapolating cetacean density surface models to novel conditions. CREEM Technical Report 2019-01, 59p, University of St Andrews.

• Marques, TA , Duarte, P, Peixe, T, Moretti, D & Thomas, L (2018) Evaluating the effect of measurement error in pairs of 3D bearings in point transect sampling estimates of density. CREEM Technical Report, no. 2018-1, University of St Andrews.

• Status and future of research on the behavioural responses of marine mammals to U.S. Navy sonar. CREEM Technical Report, no. 2015-3. Harris, C.M and Thomas, L. (2015) University of St Andrews.

• A description of LATTE outputs. CREEM Technical Report, no. 2015-2. Marques, T.A. and Thomas, L. (2015) University of St Andrews

• Procedure description : using AUTEC’s hydrophones surrounding a DTAGed whale to obtain localizations. CREEM Technical Report, no. 2015-1. Marques, T.A., Shaeffer, J., Moretti, D. & Thomas, L. (2015) University of St Andrews.

• Flexible density surface estimation for spatially explicit capture-recapture surveys. CREEM Technical Report, no. 2014-1. Borchers D.L. and Kidney, D. (2014) University of St Andrews

• An update to the methods in Endangered Species Research 2011 paper ”Estimating North Pacific right whale Eubalaena japonica density using passive acoustic cue counting”, Technical Report 2012-1. Marques, T.A., Munger, L., Thomas, L., Wiggins, S. & Hildebrand, J. (2012)

• Comparing pre- and post-construction distributions of long-tailed ducks Clangula hyemalis in and around the Nysted offshore wind farm, Denmark : a quasi-designed experiment accounting for imperfect detection, local surface features and autocorrelation. Technical Report 2011-1. Petersen, I.K., MacKenzie, M.L., Rexstad, E., Wisz, M.S. and Fox, A.D. (2011)

• Complex Region Spatial Smoother (CReSS) Technical Report 2011-2. Scott-Hayward, L.A.S., Mackenzie M.L., Donovan, C.R., Walker, C.G., Ashe, E. (2011)

• Workshop on new developments in cetacean survey methods.Technical Report 2011-3. Borchers, D.L., Thomas, L., Buckland, S.T., Skaug, H., and Barlow, J. (2011)

• Going off grid: Computationally efficient inference for log-Gaussian Cox processes. NTNU Technical report 9/2011, Simpson, D., Illian, J.B., Lindgren, F., Sørbye, S. and Rue, H. (2011).

• A toolbox for fitting complex spatial point process models using integrated Laplace transformation (INLA), Illian, J.B., and Rue, H. Technical Report, N0, 6/2010, University of Trondheim. (2010).

• Density estimation implications of increasing ambient noise on beaked whale click detection and classification.Technical Report 2010-1, Marques, T.A., Ward, J., Moretti, D., Morrisey, R., DiMarzio, N. and Thomas, L. (2010)

• Comparison of aerial survey methods for estimating abundance of common scoters. Technical Report 2009-1, Rexstad, E. and Buckland, S.T. (2009).

• A critical review of the literature on population modelling.Technical Report 2009-2, Cabrelli, A., Harwood, J., Matthiopoulos, J., New, L. and Thomas L. (2009)

• Estimating the distribution of demersal fishing effort from VMS data using hidden Markov models.Technical Report 2008-1, Borchers, D.L. and Reid, D.G. (2008).

• Non-uniform coverage estimators for distance sampling. Technical report 2007-1, Rexstad, E. (2007).

• Point and interval estimates of abundance using multiple covariate distance sampling: An example using great bustards. Technical report 2007-2, Rexstad, E. (2007).

• Methods for estimating sperm whale abundance from passive acoustic line transect surveys. Technical report 2007-3, Borchers, D.L., Brewer, C. and Matthews, J. (2007).

• Investigation of towed hydrophone monitoring power for harbour porpoise on the SCANS II survey. Technical report 2007-4, Borchers, D.L. and Burt, M.L. (2007).

• Accommodating availability bias on line transect surveys using hidden Markov models. Technical Report 2007-5, Borchers, D.L. and Samarra, F.I.P. (2007).

• Incorporating Model Uncertainty into the Sequential Importance Sampling Framework using a Model Averaging Approach, or Trans-Dimensional Sequential Importance Sampling. Technical Report 2007-6, Lynam, C., King R., Thomas L., and Buckland, S.T. (2007).