Supporting the Education of Conservationists
Supporting the Education of Conservationists
This was the second Boot Camp we ran for the Conservation Ecology Program at KMUTT. Most of the 20 participants were from KMUTT, with a few from other universities in Thailand and Myanmar. This time we had a new “Bayes first” approach to the Boot Camp: we introduce Bayesian concepts on Day 1 and leave the usual […]
July 2015 Boot Camp in Bangkok, Thailand Read More »
Dr Freya St. John of the University of Kent and Dr Aidan Keane of Edinburgh University led this workshop, focusing on the use of questionnaire surveys in relation to wildlife conservation, but also placing this research in the context of social science. A key component was the use of special methods to elicit information on sensitive or illegal activities.
The 2015 Annual Meeting of the ATBC Asia-Pacific Region was held in Phnom Penh, and they hosted a Boot Camp as a pre-meeting event. We had a full complement of 20 participants; mostly people based in Cambodia, but with people from Malaysia and Indonesia too. Instructor team: Ngumbang, Joshua, Mike.
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In January 2015 we ran three 4-day specialist workshops at the ATCEN training centre in Petaling Jaya. Twenty people took part in all, though they did not all attend all three sessions.
January 2015 Graphics with R, Simulations and Modelling, and Basic Bayes in Kuala Lumpur Read More »
This was a major gathering! We had planned a trainer-training workshop immediately before the Boot Camp, but the key resource person for that, Ian Signer, injured his knee and could not travel. So we had 7 trainee-trainers in the room, as well as 21 participants and 3 trainers.
December 2014 Boot Camp in Kuala Lumpur Read More »
The 2014 regional meeting for Society for Conservation Biology (SCB) was held in Malacca. We ran a post-meeting Boot Camp at the University of Nottingham Campus at Semenyih, just south of Kuala Lumpur. This was quite an international group: mostly Malaysians, but also people from India, Thailand, Japan, UK, Bangladesh, and Philippines.
August 2014 Boot Camp at Semenyih, Malaysia Read More »
This was our first workshop organised by the Conservation Ecology Program at King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, just south of Bangkok. Most of the 23 participants were KMUTT people, but also other universities in Thailand as well as government and WCS Thailand. Our July workshops at KMUTT were to become an annual event.
July 2014 Boot Camp in Bangkok Read More »
Dr Marc Kéry of the Swiss Ornithological Institute gave us a gentle introduction to the Bayesian analysis of a broad array of model classes relevant to population ecologists. The content was based on selections of his two existing books, Introduction to WinBUGS for ecologists and Bayesian population analysis co-authored with Michael Schaub, and an upcoming book being written with Andy Royle.
Just before Marc Kery’s BAWP workshop, we ran a 3-day Basic Bayes workshop to help people not already familiar with the Bayesian approach and software to get up to speed.
February 2014 Basic Bayes in Kuala Lumpur Read More »
Dr Jane Elith and Dr Joanne Potts of University of Melbourne (Australia) led our third international workshop, which featured the use of R packages to prepare data sets and generation of models using both MaxEnt and regression methods, including Boosted Regression Trees (BRT). The 30 participants were mostly from Malaysian conservation NGOs, universities and government agencies,
February 2012 – Species Distribution Modelling (SDM) with Jane Elith Read More »