Week

Date

Topics

Software

1

13 Jan

Model building;

Finding the maximum (minimum) of a function

Excel

R

Calculus

2

20 Jan

Maximum likelihood, Likelihood tests, AIC

Profile Likelihood

Introduction to Bayesian analysis

Excel

R

Calculus

3

27 Jan

Population models

Density independence 

Stochastic effects

Density dependence

Ecological modelling with matrices (J Runge)

R

Calculus

4

3 Feb

Harvest models

Source-sink models

PVA

R

Calculus, algebra

R

5

10 Feb

Distance estimation

DISTANCE

R

6

17 Feb

Closed Population CR

Bayesian approaches

Bayes examples in WinBUGS

M0

Mb

Mt

2-phase adaptive sampling using occupancy and CMR

MARK

R

WINBUGS

7

24 Feb

Open methods

Known fates

Nest success

MARK

8

3 Mar

Band recovery analysis

MARK

9

17 Mar

C-J-S

MARK

WINBUGS

10

24 Mar

J-S Analysis

Robust estimation

JOLLY

MARK

11

31 Mar

Occupancy estimation and modeling

MARK

12

7 April

Conservation decision making

Decision making exercises

Netica

13

14 April

Dynamic decision making for harvest management

Netica

14

21 April

Stochastic dynamic programming and adaptive optimization

ASDP

28 April

Project Presentations