Biodiversa grant submission

Just submitted a big proposal to the Biodiversa call. It was great to write this project with Hervé Fritz who, without a doubt, knows how to write grant applications! If successful, we’ll be working on the social and ecological dimensions of connectivity in lynx habitats.
Jul 20, 2015

Visitors from Berlin

I had the visit of Sarah Benhaim and Lucile Marescot (a former PhD student of mine), both post-doc at the Leibniz Institute in Berlin supervised by Stephanie Kramer-Schadt. It was an exciting week that we spent discussing and analyzing data on the spotted hyenas from the Serengeti National Park with questions at the interface of demography, sociality and epidemiology.
Jul 1, 2015

New PhD student on large carnivore monitoring

I’m so delighted to announce that Julie will start a PhD in October with me, jointly working with Eric Marboutin and Christophe Duchamp from ONCFS. There will be also collaborations with John Linnell from NINA.
Jun 25, 2015

Awesome master students

My 2 master students finished their internships. I was so lucky to have them and work with them. Iago worked on the estimation of abundance using bilateral photo-identification capture-recapture data, with an application to bottlenose dolphins.
Jun 1, 2015

Biodiversity and conservation department meeting

We had our annual department day; for the occasion, we invited Anne-Caroline Prévot. Anne-Caro is having a fascinating scientific pathway, as she started with a PhD in bird population dynamics and now she’s working on topics requiring skills in environmental psychology.
May 21, 2015

H. Smith's talk on detection dogs

As one of our always excellent department seminar, we had the chance to welcome Heath Smith from University of Washington, Center for Conservation Biology. Heath, together with his dog Chester with whom I became friend during the talk, is working with detection dogs on all sorts of important questions and organisms in conservation biology.
May 13, 2015

PhD defense on historical ecology

I acted as the “president” on the PhD committee of Sophie Monsarrat who, with her supervisor Ana Rodrigues, kindly invited me. It was about the reconstruction of marine mammal’s historical distribution and abundance using historical data.
May 7, 2015

PhD project on interactions between wild and captive Asian elephant populations

Great news! Gilles Maurer will soon start his PhD on the links between wild and captive populations of Asian elephants using an interdisciplinary approach. This is a joint venture with the Beauval zoo and B.
Apr 23, 2015

Pamela Lagrange's PhD defense

Paméla Lagrange successfully defended her PhD co-supervised with M. Bélisle from the University of Sherbrooke on the ‘Drivers of survival and breeding dispersal using a capture-recapture framework in Tree Swallows - Québec’.
Apr 9, 2015

Nina Santostasi's visit

I had the visit of Nina Santostasi from Italy to work for a few days on the estimation of striped dolphin abundance in the gulf of Corinth (in Greece). Nina is working with Giovanni Bearzi and Silvia Bonizzoni from the NGO Dolphin Biology and Conservation.
Apr 7, 2015