Upcoming Meetings
A landing page describing upcoming meetings of the community of practice
Community of Practice Monthly Meetings
March 2024
Dr. Laura Feyrer from DFO will discuss Advancing Marine Conservation through Ensemble SDMs: A Deep Dive into Habitat Modeling for Beaked Whales in the Western North Atlantic.
We will explore the challenges of modeling elusive marine species, the selection of environmental variables to ensure ecological validity, and the assessment of model performance and uncertainty. By examining beaked whales as a case study, this presentation aims to share insights on the conservation implications of using SDMs and consider approaches to enhancing SDM application for management of species at risk.
Upcoming Meeting Themes
For the next set of meetings, we’ll enjoy model showcases from community members!
Do you have a model to showcase?! Please reach out to pender.jocelyn@gmail.com!
To participate, I’d ask that you:
- Make your modelling code or workflow available to the community of practice
- Provide us with enough context to understand your workflow and modelling decisions
- Write a blog post for our website, including but not limited to model metadata and a few sentences about the model product (optional, but very valuable)
- Your model(s) can be at the beginning stages, in progress or complete!