Workshop:      Modeling and Estimation Based on Capture-Recapture and Occupancy Data

 

 

May 19-23, 2008

Volcano, Hawai‘i

 

 

Organizer: Jeff Hatfield

 

Instructors: Larissa Bailey, Jim Hines, Bill Kendall, Jim Nichols

 

Monday, May 19, 8am-noon, Conference Room, Kilauea Field Station:

Introduction

Introduction to workshop

Introduction of instructors/participants/students and their backgrounds and objectives

            Conceptual framework for population ecology & management

Statistical Inference A

            Statistical distributions (e.g., normal, multinomial)          

            Parameter estimation    

            Hypothesis testing

            Model selection

Statistical Inference B

            Survey sampling

            Sampling design features

            Some designs

                       

Tuesday, May 20, 8am-4:30pm, Lehua Room, Kilauea Military Camp:

Capture-recapture studies

            Closed CR models 

                        2-sample model                       

                        2-sample model exercises (MARK)

                        K-sample closed models

                        K-sample closed model exercises, CAPTURE, MARK

            Open population CR models

                        Single-age models A (survival and capture probabilities)

LUNCH, noon-1pm

                        MARK: PIMs and design matrices

MARK exercises: Single-age models, band recovery models

                        Single-age models B (abundance, λ and components of λ )

Multiple-age models

                        Multiple-age model exercises

 

Wednesday, May 21, 8am-4:30pm, Lehua Room, Kilauea Military Camp:

                        Multistate models: basic

Multistate model exercise

                        Multistate models: unobservable states and state misclassification                      

LUNCH, noon-1pm

Open models with extra information (band recoveries, telemetry, auxiliary sightings

Pollock’s robust design

                        Introduction

            Robust design extensions

                        Robust design computer exercises

 

Thursday, May 22, 8am-4:30pm, Lehua Room, Kilauea Military Camp:

Occupancy studies

            Single-season, single species occupancy

                        Models and estimation

                        Computer exercise (PRESENCE)

                        Study design

                        Computer exercise (GENPRES)

LUNCH, noon-1pm

            Multiple-season occupancy dynamics

                        Models and estimation

                        Computer exercise with PRESENCE

                        Study design

                        Computer exercise (GENPRES)          

           

Friday, May 23, 8am-4pm, Lehua Room, Kilauea Military Camp:

            Occupancy extensions 

            Multistate occupancy

            Multistate exercises

            Multi-device occupancy

            Joint occupancy-habitat modeling

            2-species occupancy

            Community level occupancy                 

LUNCH, noon-1pm

            Adaptive management example with occupancy

            Questions and work on participants’ data