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

Working group in demography

As part of the GdR EcoStat and our evolutionary demography group, we had a stimulating workshop on the quantification of individual heterogeneity in survival of wild populations using an approach recently developed by Hal Caswell.
Apr 2, 2015

GDR EcoStat first conference

We organised the first conference of the GdR EcoStat. We spent two lovely days in Lyon talking about ecological statistics with the hundred people who attended. The talks are available here.
Mar 12, 2015

Laetitia Blanc defended her PhD

Laetitia Blanc succesfully defended her PhD on the conservation of lynx in France. Congrats Laeti! She had very nice feedbacks by the members of committee (X. Lambin, E. Marboutin, J. Linnell, M.
Feb 6, 2015

Welcome

Welcome to our new master students Iago Bonnici and Julie Louvrier and Tamar Lok our new post-doc.
Feb 1, 2015

Moving upstairs

Our team has recently joined the department Biodiversity & Conservation at CEFE, a department that I have the pleasure to head now. We have moved offices and are now on the second floor.
Jan 10, 2015