Sarah Calba's PhD defense

I acted as president of the examining committee of Sarah Calba who defended her PhD in epistemology of sciences with the predictions in community ecology as a case study. The thesis was supervised by two clever colleagues of mine, Virginie Maris and Vincent Devictor.
Dec 16, 2014

AppliBugs and applications of Bayesian theory

We held AppliBugs in Montpellier, with the idea to stimulate exchanges and to share information on Bayesian methods and applications ( program here). The day went well despite a rainstorm falling on Montpellier.
Nov 28, 2014

Workshop on individual heterogeneity

We had a lovely 2-day workshop in Lyon on individual heterogeneity in demography as part of our research group on Statistical Ecology. I gave a short talk providing an overview of heterogeneous capture-recapture models.
Nov 20, 2014

Workshop on citizen science and statistics

After a month off, I’m back to work starting with a 2-day workshop on citizen sciences I’ve co-organised with Romain Julliard and Pascal Monestiez ( program) as part of our group on Statistical Ecology and on citizen sciences CiSStats.
Oct 16, 2014

New kids on the Bayesian block

I attended Daniel Turek’s talk at ISEC about NIMBLE a neat alternative to WinBUGS and JAGS. It is developed by Perry de Valpine’s group at Berkeley and ‘lets you use BUGS models natively in R, program functions that use them, and compile everything via C++ for faster computing’.
Jul 10, 2014

ISEC 2014: the end

ISEC 2014 is now closed. Organising this conference has been a fantastic adventure; hopefully the participants liked it.
Jul 5, 2014

We're presenting our work at ISEC 2014

I gave a talk at ISEC 2014 on fitting occupancy models with hidden-Markov models using E-SURGE:
Jul 5, 2014

Economy and large carnivores

Ben Rashford and Thomas Foulke from the University of Wyoming visited us. They gave a great talk on “Wolf Re-Introduction in the Northern Rockies, USA: From Population and Predation Trends to Policy and Economics”.
Jun 25, 2014

Pelican and life-history trade-offs

Rachel Guénon successfully defended her Master internship on the Dalmatian pelican and life-history tradeoffs (from Greece!). This is joint work with Alain Crivelli from Tour du Valat.
Jun 21, 2014

Studying attitudes towards large carnivores

Sending questionnaires for Blaise’s PhD to study the local perception of the presence of brown bears in the Pyrénées. First picture, the 3000 questionnaires to be sent; second picture, those questionnaires once packed in boxes; third picture, the nice guy from the mail company La Poste comes and picks them up.
Jun 20, 2014