Isabelle Arpin, a sociologist from Grenoble, organised a 2-day seminar on interdisciplinarity. The idea was for the participants to share their experience in practicing interdisciplinarity.
During the period 2013-2015, the NGO GIS3M led the GDEGeM project in which tons of data (on abundance and distribution among others) were collected on bottlenose dolphins.
We attended the conference organized by the French Ecological Society in Marseille. Our talk was ‘Conservation and management of large carnivores in France: A beneficial collaboration between ONCFS practitioners and CNRS researchers’.
We organised the second conference of the GdR EcoStat. We spent two lovely days in Montpellier talking about ecological statistics with the hundred people who attended. The talks are available here.
The GIS3M held an international workshop in Marseille on the conservation of Bottlenose dolphin conservation and monitoring in the North-Western Mediterranean Sea. This was the opportunity to discuss the results of the GDEGeM project on the same topic.
Jean-Dominique Lebreton went on retirement, and we could not let him go without organizing something in his honor. Jean-Do had a tremendous influence in the field of statistical ecology with important contributions in (among others) multivariate analyses, software developments, population dynamics, and capture-recapture methods.
Taking the opportunity of Ian Renner’s visit, we organized thanks to the GdR EcoStat a conference on the recent advances in the modeling of species distribution. We were lucky to have the cream of researchers in the domain with Julien Papaïx, Joseph Chipperfield, Ian Renner, Joern Pagel, Bob O’Hara, Laura Pollock and Damaris Zurell.
I attended the International Congress on Biological Conservation that was held in my home town Montpellier. The students of our team were on fire and talked about their exciting work. Gilles presented a bio-economic model to study the population dynamics of Asian captive elephants, a nice example of how to explicitly incorporate interactions between captive and wild populations in species management.