Talks

This course is for researchers who analyze field observations. These data are often inconsistent because sampling protocols can change across projects, over time, or when older data are combined with new recordings.

I moved to Canada in 2008 to start a postdoctoral fellowship with Prof. Subhash Lele at the stats department of the University of Alberta. Subhash at the time just published a paper about a statistical technique called data cloning. Data cloning is a way to use Bayesian MCMC algorithms to do frequentist inference. Yes, you read that right.

I was invited to represent ABMI at the Multi-taxa Monitoring in North America symposium, North American Congress for Conservation Biology, Madison, Wisconsin, July 18, 2016. The symposium was organized by Michael Lucid (Idaho Department of Fish and Game). It was great to see all the good work happening in North America, and the commitment to push the agenda of multi-taxa monitoring against critics and scarce funding (of course Alberta ‘has all the oil money’).

We presented a poster at the ICCB/ECCB 2015 congress in Montpellier, France, that summarized our research on single visit methodology.

The ABMI hosted its 2nd annual Speakers’ Series ‘Better Environmental Management Through Monitoring 2015’ to understand distribution of biodiversity and to inform sustainable resource development and biological conservation in Alberta.

I presented a guest lecture ‘Data cloning: bridging the Bayesian and frequentist statistical paradigms’, at the Budapest R User Group meetup, Budapest, Hungary.

Discussing problems vs. finding solutions: an operational framework for dealing with imperfect detection in species distribution modelling, International Statistical Ecology Conference 2014, Montpellier, France.

Development of predictive models for migratory landbirds and estimation of cumulative effects of human development in the oil sands areas of Alberta, Joint Oil Sands Monitoring: Cause-Effects Assessment of Oil Sands Activity on Migratory Landbirds, Edmonton, AB, 2014.