Supporting the Education of Conservationists
Supporting the Education of Conservationists
Our first Bhutan Boot Camp was hosted by the Ugyen Wangchuck Institute for Conservation and Environment (UWICE) at their main campus at Bumthang, almost 3,000m up in the Himalayas. The group of 21 included folks from Bangladesh, India and Nepal. The Bhutanese participants were government staff from protected areas or UWICE’s own researchers. Instructor team: Ngumbang, Fen, […]
September 2016 Boot Camp in Bhutan Read More »
We ran a Boot Camp at the National University of Singapore as a post-conference event following the joint ATBC-SCB ConservationAsia conference. Instructor team: Ngumbang, Lukmann (“Bob”), Mike.
July 2016 Boot Camp in Singapore Read More »
These were two back-to-back five-day workshops organised by the Conservation Ecology Program at KMUTT, and most participants came to both workshops. They were postgrads or lecturers from universities throughout Thailand. Instructor team: Ngumbang, Fen, Dusit, Mike.
July 2016 – Graphics with R and GIS using QGIS and R in Bangkok Read More »
We have had lots of Indonesians at our workshops in Malaysia, but this was our first foray into Indonesia. It was organised by Copenhagen Zoo, who have a project at Baluran National Park, at the NE tip of Java. Participants were field researchers working with NGOs (WCS, WWF, FFI, ZSL) or National Parks. Instructor team: Ngumbang, Sylvia,
April 2016 Boot Camp at Baluran NP, Indonesia Read More »
Back-to-back 5-day workshops were held at the ATCEN training centre in Petaling Jaya. The GIS workshop was full – a squeeze with 20 participants plus 3 trainers in ATCEN’s training room. The JAGS workshop attracted only 10 people, but an important one as it was the first JAGS workshop since the revamping of the “Bayes
March 2016 – Bayes with JAGS and GIS with QGIS and R in Kuala Lumpur Read More »
This Boot Camp had a very international flavour. Apart from lots of Malaysians and our neighbours from Indonesia and Singapore, we had participants from India, Hong Kong, Guam, Oman, and South Africa. Instructor team: Ngumbang, Horng, Sri, Win Sim, Fen, Mike
January 2016 Boot Camp in Kuala Lumpur Read More »
We had 12 participants for the 5-day “Elf Camp” plus Ian Signer, Ngumbang and Mike as facilitators. The first 2 days were devoted to learning principles, a framework for assessing lessons, and questioning techniques. Most of the time in the last 3 days was taken by practice lessons run by participants followed by feedback from
December 2015 – Elf Camp (BCSS instructors’ workshop) in Kuala Lumpur Read More »
Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT) hosted this Boot Camp. It was a big group: 24 participants, including a lot of UMT postgrads and wildlife researchers from Singapore and Sabah and Sarawak. Fortunately we had a good local team of assistant instructors. Instructor team: Ngumbang, Fen, Mike, assisted by Reuben, Sam, Sri, Wai Yee.
November 2015 Boot Camp in Terengganu, Malaysia Read More »
WildTeam invited us to Bangladesh to run these workshops as part of their USAID-funded Bagh activity. The 21 Boot Camp participants included WildTeam staff and people from government and academia in Bangladesh, as well as from Bhutan, India and Nepal. Khulna is the jumping-off point for tourist visits to the Sundarbans, so WildTeam kindly laid on a
September 2015 Boot Camp and Simulations and Modelling with R in Khulna, Bangladesh Read More »
This was a 4-day workshop organised by the Conservation Ecology Program at KMUTT just after the Boot Camp, and involving some of the same participants. Instructor team: Ngumbang, Sylvia, Mike.
July 2015 – Simulations and Modelling with R in Bangkok, Thailand Read More »