Dr. Cohen, post-doc Abby Darrah, and Ph.D. students Amanda Cheeseman, Maureen Durkin, Alison Kocek, and Michelle Stantial traveled to Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in early November to attend a workshop on Advanced Hierarchical Modeling. The course was led by Patuxent's Andy Royle and the Swiss Ornithological Institute's Marc Kery, who are considered some of wildlife science's foremost experts on the subject. Drs. Kery and Royle provided training in the latest statistical methods for estimating wildlife abundance using count, distance, and mark-recapture data. The workshop material is the focus of their upcoming book, "Applied Hierarchical Modeling in Ecology: Analysis of distribution, abundance and species richness in R and BUGS". The instructors lectured for an impressive five straight days, and succeeding in leading the attendees through complex topics, using relevant examples. Lab members got practice conducting analyses and solving problems posed by the instructors using the R package "unmarked", WinBugs and JAGS. Everyone came away inspired to incorporate these state-of-the-art methods in their own research.
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