Capture-recapture workshop in Montpellier
We held our annual 5-day [capture-recapture workshop](https://multievent.sciencesconf.org/) in Montpellier. As always, the attendees had challenging questions and stimulating datasets to analyse! Looking forward to next year.
Seminar on interdisciplinarity in practice
Isabelle Arpin, a sociologist from Grenoble, organised a 2-day seminar on
interdisciplinarity. The idea was for the participants to share their
experience in practicing interdisciplinarity.
Visit to the IZW Leibniz Institute, Berlin
I spent 3 days in Berlin at the [Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife
Research](http://www.leibniz-izw.de/welcome.html) catching up with friends and
colleagues (L. Marescot, S. Benhaim, S. Kramer-Schadt, A. Courtiol, H. Hofer).
Ecology meets linguistic
We organized a meeting between our lab and [Praxiling](http://www.praxiling.fr/?lang=en) a lab working in linguistic to explore potential collaborations between ecology and linguistic. Marie Chandelier and I gave a talk on our recent results on a content analysis we performed on wolf recovery in France and its coverage by newspapers.
DEMOCOM kick-off meeting
We had our first meeting for the project “Climate and management effects on COMmunity dynamics – Developing multi-species DEMOgraphy"funded by ANR. The website is operational and running, check it out here.
INTERACT kick-off meeting
We had our first meeting for the project “Scenarios for coexistence between men and dolphins on the Mediterranean French littoral” funded by Fondation de France. The website is operational and running, check it out here.
Working group on animal/human demography
We organised a 2-day workshop on the metrics of longevity used in human and animal demography. The idea is to explore potential bridges between the two fields. Next meeting in April.
Another visit of Ian Renner
Ian Renner from the University of Newcastle in Australia, who visited us back in 2015, is with us again for a short 3-week visit.
Blaise defended his PhD on a socio-ecological approach to Brown bear management in the Pyrenees
Blaise defended his PhD I co-supervised with Pierre-Yves Quenette from ONCFS (manuscript here). Blaise studied the attitudes of the public toward brown bear presence and provided sound estimates of abundance and distribution for the species in the Pyrenees.
Workshop on issues in fitting hierarchical models in ecology
Frederic Gosselin, Etienne Rivot and I organised a 2-day workshop on issues in fitting hierarchical models in ecology. I gave a talk on “Local minima and multistate capture-recapture models”, slides and R code available on GitHub.