Sept 2015: International Training course on Fishery Stock Assessment and Ecosystem Modeling

Owen Hamel, Aaron Berger and Eli Holmes will be teaching the International Training course on "Fishery Stock Assessment and Ecosystem Modeling" during September 16 - 22, 2015, in Hyderabad, India.  Organized by International Training Centre for Operational Oceanography (ITCOocean) and ESSO-INCOIS, Hyderabad, India.  This is part on an ongoing technical cooperation between Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), India and NOAA to enhance predictive capabilities for fisheries in India.
http://www.incois.gov.in/portal/ITCOocean/fsaem.jsp

Winter 2015 Online Course: Applied Time Series Analysis in Fisheries and Environmental Sciences

Fish 507: Applied Time Series Analysis in Fisheries and Environmental Sciences
Winter 2015
Fisheries Dept, University of Washington

Instructors: Eric Ward, Eli Holmes, Mark Scheuerell
email: eli.holmes@noaa.gov, mark.scheuerell@noaa.gov, eric.ward@noaa.gov

Reviews current applications of univariate and multivariate time series models for biological and environmental data, emphasizing the estimation, inference, and forecasting aspects of time-series models. Explores effects of covariates and anthropogenic drivers for species that are exploited and/or of conservation concern. We taught a similar course 2 years ago. This time we are emphasizing how to fit these models in a Bayesian context with JAGS along with a MLE context with MARSS. We are recording the lectures and you can follow along with the course at: https://catalyst.uw.edu/workspace/fish203/35553/243766