Supporting the Education of Conservationists
Supporting the Education of Conservationists
In January 2019 we were back at Sunway University. for our annual Boot Camp in Kuala Lumpur. The 23 participants included 6 from universities in Philippines and others from Indonesia and Singapore. Researchers from government, WWF and WCS also came. Instructor team: Ngumbang, Win Sim, Chris, Wee, Elan, Pang and Mike.
January 2019 Boot Camp at Sunway University, Selangor, Malaysia Read More »
This was a 6-day workshop organised at the National University of Singapore by members of the Biology Department. We had 16 participants, mostly with some connection to NUS with a wide range of research interests beyond the classic topics of animal distribution and abundance. During the first 3 days we covered the basics of simulations
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Our first Boot Camp in Nepal was organised by Friends of Nature Nepal with financial support from USAID funded Hariyo Ban Program through WWF Nepal. We were based at Bojinee Nagarkot Resort, on a hillside about 1 hour from Kathmandu. We had 24 participants, mostly Nepali but with folks from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and US. Instructor team: Jeevan,
October 2018 Boot Camp in Nepal Read More »
After Boot Camps in Bhutan in 2016 and 2017, we ran an advanced workshop in 2018, and almost all the participants had attended a Boot Camp previously. We had 16 participants: 7 from Bhutan and the rest from other SAARC countries. The workshop was hosted by UWICER with funding from the UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Centre. Instructor team: Ngumbang,
September 2018 Bayes with JAGS at Bumthang, Bhutan Read More »
Another Boot Camp using the excellent facilities of SUT, with the support of the Sakaerat Field Station. We had 22 participants, with a big contingent from SUT and Sakaerat and other Thai universities, but others from Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Tanzania. Instructor team: Colin, Dusit, Jeevan, Ngumbang, Shyamala and Mike.
August 2018 Boot Camp at Suranaree University of Technology, Thailand Read More »
The ATBC held their global meeting in Kuching in July 2018, and we ran a Boot Camp as a pre-meeting activity. The venue was the Harbour View Hotel in down-town Kuching. We had 22 participants from a wide range of counties, mostly coming for the ATBC meeting, but with several from UNIMAS. Instructor team: Chee
June 2018 Boot Camp at Kuching, Malaysia, pre-ATBC meeting workshop Read More »
Spatial data are key to much of wildlife science, but most GIS training involves expensive proprietary software, so in this workshop we use the free QGIS program. We also see how spatial information can be prepared in QGIS and transferred to R for model fitting, and the result then imported back into QGIS. Instructor team:
March 2018 GIS with QGIS and R in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Read More »
The raw data entered in a spreadsheet will always need checking and likely reformatting before it can be used in R or other statistical software. Some of this is best done with spreadsheet tools, some can be done in R. We spent the first two days working with participants own data sets to get them
March 2018 Data Exploration and Display with R in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Read More »
During the Boot Camp we give a grounding in the basics of Bayesian statistics, but to apply this to real biological models we need to get to grips with JAGS. So the JAGS workshop is the next stage. For this workshop we had a small group with folks from Bangladesh, India, Indonesia and Singapore as
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Our 2018 workshop in Kuala Lumpur was hosted by Sunway University. We had over 20 participants, mostly field researchers from WCS, Pelindung and WWF together with postgrad students at Sunway. Several of the participants in the instructors’ workshop stayed on to help with the Boot Camp, so we had a strong instructor team: Ngumbang, Chris, Areth,
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