This is a joint meeting of the British Ecological Society (QE and Citizen Science SIGS), Environmental Statistics Section of the Royal Statistical Society and the British and Irish Region of the International Biometric Society.
It will be held in Cambridge on the 10th October.
Details and speaker line up are as follows:
10.00-10.30 Registration
10.30-11.30 Michael Pocock, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology – People are the data-generating process: the human side of citizen science and its diversity
11.30-12.00 Jonas Geldmann, University of Cambridge What determines spatial bias in citizen science?
12.00-12.30 Ali Johnston, British Trust for Ornithology Spatial bias and observer variation in avian citizen science datasets
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.00 Nick Isaac, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Hierarchical Bayesian models for messy and biased data
14.00-14.30 Steffen Oppel, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Comparing trend estimates from unstructured citizen science data and common bird monitoring in Denmark
14.30-15.00 Emily Dennis, Butterfly Conservation and University of Kent From novice to expert: modelling the various sources of data on UK butterflies
15.00-15.30 Coffee
15.30-17.00 Discussion sessions
15.30-15.45 Introductions
15.45-16.45 Discussion groups
16.45-17.00 Feedback from discussion sessions
17.00-17.15 Closing Remarks
17.30-18.30 Wine reception
19.00+ Dinner for invited speakers
Booking
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