Blog report: Summer School in Forest and Environmental Policy Research: From Theory to Method and Back
Written by Dawit Gebregziabher, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) Purpose of travel: to attend the summer school course in Freiburg at Schauinsland in the Black Forest Dates: September 12-15, 2017 I was able to get the information about the...
Blog report: research exchange to Tokyo – working with the Japanese Black Bear Project
Written by Kristoffer Nordli, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences By the financial support I received from the International Research School in Applied Ecology (IRSAE) and Erasmus+ (Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility), I could realize my...
Transitioning from PhD to postdoc – Sarah Hoy
Written by Sarah Hoy, former IRSAE member, University of Aberdeen Photos by Sarah Hoy (owls and moose) and collaborators at the MacNulty Lab Utah State University (wolves). It’s been two years now since I finished my PhD at the University of Aberdeen, UK and began...
Blog report: The ICCB 2017 conference in Cartagena, Colombia
Written by: Zara Morris-Trainor, the University of Aberdeen IN PURSUIT OF SUSTAINABILE CASHMERE - KEY INSIGHTS FROM THE MONGOLIAN RANGELANDS Last July I had the opportunity to present on my PhD research at the International Congress of Conservation Biology...
Blog report: International Summer School on Bayesian Modelling
Written by: Bert van der Veen, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences For a while now I’ve wondered what this “Bayesian statistics” is that researchers have been talking about. It’s been frustrating to have to sit through talks on “priors” and “credible...
Blog report: Modelling Demographic Processes in Populations workshop
Written by: Ewan McHenry, University of Aberdeen I recently had the opportunity to travel to Trondheim from Aberdeen to take a two part, two week course in Stochastic Population Modelling and Integrated Population Modelling. The course was organised by The Norwegian...