Workshop

3-Day Workshop on Multiple Species Occupancy Modelling (MSOM) and Spatially Explicit Capture-Recapture Using JAGS in R Software on 14th, 15th, and 16th May 2024. This is specialist workshop aimed to enhanced researchers analyzing skills.  Training Block, Kelampayan, Sarawak Forestry Corporation, Lot 218, Kcld, Jalan Sungai Tapang, Kota Sentosa, 93250 Kuching, Sarawak.   All 11 participants […]

The intention to hold a workshop began since early 2022, after discussing the workshop planning with Mike, the Data Analysis Workshop was held for 2 days on 14 and 15 November 2022. There are 17 participants, 3 postgraduates’ students from UMS, 2 from Sabah Wildlife Department (Kinabatangan Branch), 2 from CERT Telupid, 1 from Göttingen

Our first Elf Camp outside Malaysia was hosted by UWICER at their campus in Bumthang. This time we targeted potential instructors from South Asia. Most participants were from Bhutan – which is good as they have long term plans for this kind of training – and also from Nepal, Myanmar, Singapore. We talked about how people learn,

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,

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:

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

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

Once again we had 12 participants for the 5-day “Elf Camp”, including team members from   Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Nepal and Thailand, The workshop covered the factors affecting learning, a framework for designing lessons, and facilitation techniques. All participants had a chance to practice teaching one of the Boot Camp units, and this led to useful

The Conservation Ecology Program at KMUTT organised this 10-day intermediate-level workshop on using JAGS software for Bayesian modelling of wildlife data, in particular the use of hierarchical models for regression, occupancy, capture-recapture, and biological communities. The twenty participants were mostly associated with KMUTT, but included folks from other Thai universities, Bangladesh, China, Singapore, and UK.  Instructor team:

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.