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.
Jan 30, 2017

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.
Jan 26, 2017

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.

Jan 1, 2017

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.

Dec 12, 2016

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.

Nov 28, 2016

GDEGeM workshop on bottlenose dolphin conservation in the North-Western Mediterranean Sea

During the period 2013-2015, the NGO GIS3M led the GDEGeM project in which tons of data (on abundance and distribution among others) were collected on bottlenose dolphins.

Nov 10, 2016

Talk on the science-management gap in Marseille

We attended the conference organized by the French Ecological Society in Marseille. Our talk was ‘Conservation and management of large carnivores in France: A beneficial collaboration between ONCFS practitioners and CNRS researchers’.

Oct 25, 2016

Another visit of Raluca Bancila

Raluca Bancila, who visited us back in 2015, is with us again for a short 2-week visit. We will resume a project we started one year ago on the evaluation of demographic parameters of two related species of spadefoot toads (Pelobates syriacus and P.
Oct 1, 2016

Laura Cowen's sabbatical

Laura Cowen from the Department of Math and Stat at University of Victoria (Canada) will be on a sabbatical with us for 3 months. We will be working on the applications of hidden Markov models to capture-recapture data.
Sep 1, 2016

Analysing the social Star Wars network in The Attack of the Clones with R

This is a free adaptation of two (very) clever analyses made by others: The Star Wars Social Network by Evelina Gabasov in which program F# was mostly used to analyse the Star wars social networks
Aug 7, 2016