Talks/Seminars/Workshops

Talks

Integrating quantitative social, ecological and mathematical sciences into landscape decision - Workshop Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge (virtual), September 2020,
''Integrating new statistical frameworks into eDNA survey and analysis at the landscape scale.'' Invited

ISEC, Sydney (virtual), Australia, June 2020
''Efficient Bayesian variable selection in ecological models.''

CFE-CMStatistics, London, UK, December 2019
''Bayesian capture-recapture models with temporary emigration and heterogeneity using mixtures of changepoint processes.'' Invited

3rd Valencia International Bayesian Analysis Summer School, Valencia, Spain, July 2019
''Bayesian modelling of environmental DNA data.'' Invited

Addressing statistical challenges of modern technological advances ICMS, Edinburgh, UK, June 2019
''Modelling environmental DNA data.'' Invited

ISEC, Seattle, US, June 2016
''New models for removal data.''

ISEC, Seattle, US, June 2016
''Count data using a robust design: models, results and recommendations.''

META workshop, Birmingham, UK, December 2015
''Modelling migration patterns of wildlife populations using a Bayesian non-parametric approach.'' Invited

RSS 2015 Annual Conference, Exeter, UK, September 2015
''Bayesian non-parametric population ecology models.'' Invited

3rd meeting on Statistics, Athens, Greece, June 2015
''How easy is it to translocate amphibian and reptile populations? Lessons from removal modelling.''

Herpetofauna Workers Meeting, Newcastle, UK, February 2015
''A Bayesian non-parametric approach for modelling capture-recapture data.'' Invited

International Statistical Ecology Conference, Montpelier, France, July 2014
''Reproductive consequences of the timing of seasonal movements in a non-migratory bird population.''

IBS Channel Network Conference, St Andrews, UK, July 2013
''Integrated Analysis of Capture-Recapture-Resighting Data and Counts of Unmarked Birds at Stop-over Sites.'' Invited

International Statistical Ecology Conference, Krokkleiva, Norway, July 2012
''Parameter redundancy in Jolly-Seber models; Using symbolic algebra in practice.''

New Zealand Statistical Association Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, August 2011
''Biclustering models for ordinal data.''

International Statistical Ecology Conference, Canterbury, UK, July 2010
''An integrated analysis of capture - recapture - resighting data and counts of unmarked birds at stop-over sites.''

Euring, Pescara, Italy, September 2009
''Combining information on marked and unmarked birds for stopover data.''

International Biometric Conference, University College Dublin, Ireland, July 2008
''Age-specific parameter estimation from individuals of unknown age in capture-recapture data.''

International Statistical Ecology Conference, St Andrews, UK, July 2008
''Age-specific Estimation of Demographic Rates for Animals of Unknown Age.''

21st Panhellenic Statistics Conference, University of Aegean, May 2008
''Capture-recapture data: How much information is in there?''

From uncertain age estimates to age-specific life history schedules - humans, non-humans and mathematics, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, September 2007
''Extracting age-specific demographic rates from animals of unknown age.''

Seminars

Statistics seminar series, University of Cape Town (virtual), October 2020
''Single and multi-species monitoring using environmental DNA.''

Statistics seminar series, University of Glasgow (virtual), October 2020
''Environmental DNA as a monitoring tool; sampling and methods at the single and multi species level.''

Statistics seminar series, University of Southampton, December 2019
''Modelling phenology using capture-recapture data.''

Statistics seminar series, Bocconi University, May 2019.
''Bayesian modelling and variable selection for environmental DNA data.''

Statistics seminar series, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Compagnia di San Paolo and University of Torino, November 2018.
''Bayesian nonparametric modelling of phenology using capture-recapture data.''

Ecology, Evolution and Environment seminar series, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK, March 2017
''Modelling phenology for marked and unmarked populations.''

BTO seminar series, Thetford, UK, October 2015
''Modelling stopover and related data.''

Statistics Seminars series, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, UK, January 2013
''Modelling the emergence of bivoltine buttery species using mixtures.''

Workshops

University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, March 2018
''Statistical models for wildlife population assessment and conservation'' together with Dr Diana Cole, Dr Rachel McCrea and Prof Richard Griffiths.

University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, January 2017
''Statistical models for wildlife population assessment and conservation'' together with Dr Diana Cole, Dr Rachel McCrea and Prof Richard Griffiths.

University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, January 2016
''Occupancy workshop'' together with Dr Diana Cole and Dr Rachel McCrea.

SESYNC, Annapolis, US, May 2015
''Models for citizen science insect data'' Invited workshop participant by workshop organisers, Daniel Sheldon, Justin Calabrese and Leslie Ries.

University of Freiburg, Germany, February 2015
''Model averaging in ecology: reviewing methods and developing guidelines for statistical models'' Invited workshop participant by workshop organisers, Carsten Dormann and Brendan Wintle.

University of Canterbury, UK, June 2010
''Open-population capture-recapture and stopover duration models; recent advances including age-structure and heterogeneity'' together with RProf Shirley Pledger, Dr Murray Efford and Dr Richard Arnold.