Some exciting new publications in 2019

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“Conducting and interpreting fish telemetry studies: Considerations for researchers and resource managers“ now appears in Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries.

“The conditionally autoregressive hidden Markov model (CarHMM): Inferring behavioural states from animal tracking data exhibiting conditional autocorrelation“ has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Agricutural, Biological and Environmental Statistics.

Year 2 Workshop of CANSSI CRT -- Towards Sustainable Fisheries: SSAMs for Complex Fisheries and Biological Data

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CANSSI CRT (2018-2021) — Towards Sustainable Fisheries: State Space Assessment Models for Complex Fisheries and Biological Data— is a collaborative research team (CRT) project funded by the Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute (CANSSI) that I lead. This year, we were very grateful to the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICEA) for hosting our Year-2 Workshop from April 14 to 16, in Copenhagen, Denmark.

 
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Gordon Research Conference 2019: Movement Ecology of Animals

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From March 3 to 8, 2019, Animal Movement as a Link Between Ecology, Evolution and Behavior was held at Renaissance Tuscany Il Ciocco in Lucca (Barga), Italy. I had the pleasure of attending the conference and gave an invited talk on "Statistical Tools for Validating Animal Movement Models".

Click here to learn more about the conference.

XXIX International Biometric Conference (IBC 2018)

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I just returned from the IBC biennial meeting in Barcelona, Spain! 

Click here to learn more about IBC!

On Tuesday, 10 July, I gave my invited talk titled Robust and Consistent Estimation for General State-Space Models with Application to Problems in Fisheries Science and Movement Ecology.

Dr. Alan Welsh (Australian National University, Australia) was giving a talk about Bootstrap Model Selection for Linear Mixed Models

Dr. Alan Welsh (Australian National University, Australia) was giving a talk about Bootstrap Model Selection for Linear Mixed Models

Inaugural Meeting and Year 1 Workshop of CANSSI CRT Takes Place in Montreal!

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The meeting is focused on "Towards Sustainable Fisheries: SSAMs for Complex Fisheries and Biological Data".

Participants:

Agenda

6 June, Wednesday

  • 8:30-9:15      Introduction – Joanna Mills Flemming
  • 9:15-10:30    Update on Template Model Builder - Anders Nielsen
  • 10:30-11:00  Coffee
  • 11:00-12:15   SSAM News – Noel Cadigan
  • 12:15-1:15      Lunch
  • 1:15-2:30      DFO Scallop Fishery Case Study – Jessica Sameoto and Dave Keith
  • 2:30-4:30     Group Discussion – Chris Field
SSAM News given by Noel Cadigan

SSAM News given by Noel Cadigan

Group Dinner

Group Dinner

7 June, Thursday

  • 8:30-9:15       Incorporating Covariates in the Correlation Structure of Fisheries Data - Ethan Lawler
  • 9:15-10:00     Utilising More of the Data in Stock Assessment Models - Ideas for MSc Project - Andrew Edwards and Marie Auger-Méthé
  • 10:00-10:45   Passive Acoustics + Stock Assessment = ? - Aaron MacNeil
  • 10:45-11:15    Coffee
  • 11:15-12:00    Stock Assessment 101: Surplus Production Model - Louis-Paul Rivest
  • 12:00-1:00      Lunch
  • 1:00-1:45        Some Issues Related to Finfish Stock Assessments in the DFO Quebec Region -- Hugues Benoit
  • 1:45-2:30        Coffee
  • 2:30-3:30        Planning – Joanna Mills Flemming

Canadian Data Science Workshop (CDSW): 29 April - 1 May 2018

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Happy to be in Toronto to participate in the workshop and discuss data science challenges with researchers, industries, public and not-for-profit organizations.

There are insightful talks given by:

Dr. Alejandra de Almeida (Research & Innovation Development Officer of NSERC)

> NSERC Partnership Grant Programs

Dr. Sallie Keller (Director of Social and Decision Analytics Lab and Professor of Statistics, Virginia Tech) 

> Creating a Data Science Centric Organization - Challenges and Opportunities

 Dr. Juliana Freire (Executive Director, NYU Moore-Sloan Data Science Environment and Professor of Computer Science & Engineering and Data Science, NYU) 

> Building a Data Science Environment: A View from the Trenches

There are break-out sessions covering the following five topics: 

1 - Trust and usability

2 - Big data management

3 - Modelling and analysis

4 - Dissemination & Visualization

5 - Data security & privacy

Data Science Ecosystem. Image Credit: dsg.uwaterloo.ca/CDSW

Data Science Ecosystem. Image Credit: dsg.uwaterloo.ca/CDSW