Upcoming Meetings
A landing page describing upcoming meetings of the community of practice
Community of Practice Monthly Meetings
May 2024
Miranda Frison is a MA in Geography student at Saint Mary’s University. Her thesis co-supervisors are Dr. Sean R. Haughian and Dr. Peter Bush, with funding support from Mitacs and the Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre (AC CDC). She has completed a backwards step-wise SDM for the Eastern waterfan (Peltigera hydrothyria) lichen using MaxEnt. Modelling is currently being completed for Wrinkled Shingle (Pannaria lurida) and Black-foam (Anzia colpodes) lichen. All three threatened lichens are being modelled within Atlantic Canada to improve understanding of their habitat and distribution for future COSEWIC assessments.
June 2024
Nathan Hebert from DFO will discuss comparing spatio-temporal species distribution models: A case study of a Scotian Shelf sea cucumber (Cucumaria frondosa).
Specifically, he will discuss three spatio-temporal statistical models for Scotian Shelf sea cucumber. The focus will be on understanding the unique spatio-temporal modelling approaches of each model and their implications for inferring sea cucumber distribution.
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!