This week we have more members of the group contributing posts. Dr Peter Vesk has provided some interesting information about programs that can help in developing conceptual models. Will Morris reported an ‘Rchievement’ that facilitates remote monitoring of lengthy R simulations, and in the same vein, John Baumgartner has whetted our appetite for R-Twitter integration, which can be especially useful for keeping informed of the progress of complex models that might take days to complete. If you are interested in keeping up-to-date with posts from this group subscribe to the group RSS feed or enter “http://bit.ly/qaecologynews” into your RSS reader.
Asterias amurensis
In other news, Kim Millers has recently flown over to Barcelona for the 7th International Conference on Marine Bioinvasion. She will be presenting some of her results on estimating observer bias during surveys for the invasive marine seastar, Asterias amurensis. For more details see below:
Kim’s presentation:
Title: Searching for the Stars: Estimating observer bias during surveys for the invasive marine seastar, Asterias amurensis
Venue: CosmoCaixa, Barcelona
Date & Time: 4pm, 25th August 2011
