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. He made a very neat contribution to the field by greatly improving existing algorithms (here and here) to fit capture-recapture models to these non-standard data. Julie worked on inferring the distribution of wolves in France from the beginning of its recolonization in the early 90’s. Her main contribution was to show that by carefully describing observers’ characteristics and properly quantify the prospection effort, citizen science data can be used to map the range dynamics of species with large dispersal distances and home ranges. Iago will spend next year improving his (already largely above the average) skills in informatics, AI, programming, agent-based modeling… Hopefully, we’ll work again together. Julie is applying for PhD grants, more soon.