Workshops
International
DISCOVERY: Photo-Identification Data Management System
for Individually Recognizable Animals
DISCOVERY workshop at Australia/New Zealand Student Chapter of the Society for Marine Mammalogy
Date: 23 November 2016
Venue: Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
Organizer: Student chapter committee
Instructor: Stephen C.Y Chan
One-day workshop held at ANZSCSMM to introduce student participants to the recently developed new features of the DISCOVERY software, with hands-on practical training.
DISCOVERY workshop at the 1st meeting of Wildlife Photo-ID Network
Date: 5 November 2014
Venue: 1st International Symposium and Workshop of the Wildlife Photo-ID Network
Organizer: University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland
Speakers: Glenn Gailey & Leszek Karczmarski
Keynote followed with demonstrations and discussion at the 1st meeting of the International Wildlife Photo-ID Network, sponsored by Finish Cultural Foundation.
DISCOVERY workshop at the 19th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals
Date: 27 November 2011
Venue: Conference Centre, Tampa, Florida USA
Organizers: Leszek Karczmarski & Glenn Gailey
Instructors: Glenn Gailey, Leszek Karczmarski, Olga Sychenko & Simon Wong
One-day workshop introducing the DISCOVERY Photo-ID Data-Management System; it gave a comprehensive overview of all functions and capabilities of the software, along with hands-on examples of how to incorporate existing data into the new system.
Regional
Regional workshop on population connectivity and conservation of Sousa chinensis off the Chinese coast
(jointly with Prof Kaiya Zhou of Nanjing Normal University).
Nanjing, China, 4-7 June 2010.
Regional capacity building
South-East Asian Training Workshops
Organizer and Chair: Dr. Leszek Karczmarski
Host: Cetacean Ecology Lab, SWIMS
Organizing Committee: Postgraduate Lab members
Sponsors:
1st Regional Training Workshop in Computational Behavioural Ecology:
Quantitative Ecology and Population Modelling using NOVA Computational Platform
Invited Expert Instructors:
Prof Wayne Getz
University of California, Berkeley, USA
1-5 May 2017
Prof Richard Salter
Oberlin College, Ohio, USA
Analytical Training Colloquium:
Large Socio-Behavioural Datasets
Invited Expert Instructor:
Dr. Shannon Gowans
Eckerd College, St Petersburg, Florida, USA
13-15 January 2017
9th South-East Asian Training Workshop in Marine Mammal Research Techniques:
Quantitative Socio-Behavioural Analysis using SOCPROG
Invited Expert Instructor:
Dr. Shannon Gowans
Eckerd College, St Petersburg, Florida, USA
5-10 January 2017
8th South-East Asian Training Workshop in Marine Mammal Research Techniques:
Photo-Identification Data Management: Application of R Statistics
Invited Expert Instructor:
Dr. Glenn Gailey
CetaEcoResearch
Olympia, WA, USA
20-25 October 2014
7th South-East Asian Training Workshop in Marine Mammal Research Techniques:
Population Trend Analysis
Invited Expert Instructor:
Dr. Alex Huang
Cetacean Ecology Lab, SWIMS
The University of Hong Kong
9-11 May 2014
2nd Regional Training Workshop in Computational Behavioural Ecology
Spatial Ecology and Quantitative Analyses of Animal Movement
Invited Expert Instructors:
Prof Wayne Getz
Dr. Eric Dougherty
Dr. Dana Seidel
University of California, Berkeley, USA
3-12 January 2018
Analytical Techniques Regional Training Course:
Socio-Ecological and Socio-Behavioural Analyses of Group-Living Mammals
Invited Expert Instructor:
Ms. Wei-Lun Chang
Cetacean Ecology Lab, SWIMS
The University of Hong Kong
27-29 January 2014
Analytical Techniques Regional Training Course:
Database Management System for Photo-Identification Studies
Invited Expert Instructor:
Dr. Glenn Gailey
CetaEcoResearch
Olympia, WA, USA
20-30 June 2012
6th South-East Asian Training Workshop in Marine Mammal Research Techniques:
Principles of Remote Sensing
Invited Expert Instructor:
Dr. Barend Erasmus
School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
7-10 January 2012
5th South-East Asian Training Workshop in Marine Mammal Research Techniques:
Ecological Niche Modelling
Invited Expert Instructor:
Dr. Barend Erasmus
School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
2-5 January 2012
4th South-East Asian Training Workshop in Marine Mammal Research Techniques:
GIS Techniques: Principles and Concepts
Invited Expert Instructor:
Dr. Mark Keith
School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
currently:
Centre for Wildlife Management
University of Pretoria, South Africa
28-31 December 2011
Dr. Lyndon Brooks
Research Methods and Statistics
Southern Cross University, Australia
3rd South-East Asian Training Workshop in Marine Mammal Research Techniques:
Quantitative Population Analyses with Mark-Recapture Techniques
Invited Expert Instructors:
Prof. Kenneth H. Pollock
Centre for Fish and Fisheries Research
Murdoch Univsersity, Australia
and
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, USA
10-15 December 2011
2nd South-East Asian Training Workshop in Marine Mammal Research Techniques:
Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Invited Expert Instructor:
Dr. Mark Keith
School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
currently:
Centre for Wildlife Management
University of Pretoria, South Africa
14-16 July 2011
Regional Pearl River Delta Training Workshop in Marine Mammal Research Techniques:
Tracking of Animal Movement with the use of surveyor's Theodolite and a dedicated software system
Invited Expert Instructor:
Dr. Glenn Gailey
Marine Mammal Research Program
Texas A&M University, Galveston, USA
currently:
CetaEcoResearch
Olympia, WA, USA
10-20 June 2011
Dr. Ana Cañadas
ALNILAM Research and Conservation
Madrid, Spain
1st South-East Asian Training Workshop in Marine Mammal Research Techniques:
Estimation of Population Parameters
Invited Expert Instructors:
Prof Philip Hammond
Sea Mammal Research Unit
University of St. Andrews, Scotland
3-11 December 2010
CETACEAN ECOLOGY LAB
The Swire Institute of Marine Science, The University of Hong Kong
