Dear allstat,
Can you please announce the ISEC2012 on allstat:
First Announcement
The third biennial International Statistical Ecology Conference will be
held 3-6 July 2012, hosted by the Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary
Synthesis at the Department of Biology of the University of Oslo. The
conference location will be the Sundvolden Hotel outside Oslo.
We have an extraordinary group of plenary speakers, whose general topics
are:
- Nils Chr. Stenseth, Univ. of Oslo (Norway): Opening remarks
- Steinar Engen, Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology (Norway):
stochastic age-structured modelling, including dynamics, genetics and
some estimation
- Rachel Fewster, Univ. of Aukland (N.Z.): genetics in statistical ecology
- Joanne Flemming, Dalhousie University (Canada): The Ocean Tracking
Network: visualization tools and novel analyses for acoustic tracking data
- Otso Ovaskainen, Univ. of Helsinki (Finland): the analysis of spatial
data: individual movements and species and community models
- Andre Punt, Univ. of Washington (U.S.): estimating precautionary
thresholds for US west coast fisheries
- Andy Royle, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center (U.S.): Incorporating
auxiliary spatial information in capture-recapture models
- Len Thomas, Univ. of St. Andrews (Scotland): The future of
statistical ecology
Workshops in the area of ecological statistics will also be conducted at
the venue just prior to the conference. We will also be soliciting
contributed talks and poster presentations; we will begin accepting
abstracts in the second half of 2011. Further details are available at
the conference website http://www.cees.uio.no/news/2010/isec2012.html
Please place the dates of this conference into your diaries (3-6 July
2012) and visit the conference website for updates and further information.
Best regards,
Tore Schweder (for the Local Organising Committee)
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