Course Overview: This course will provide a theoretical, analytical and practical introduction to QIIME 2 (canonically pronounced ‘chime two’), which stands for Quantitative Insights into Microbial Ecology 2, and Qiita (canonically pronounced ‘cheetah’), a multiomics and multi-study online tool. QIIME 2 and Qiita are open source software packages for comparison and analysis of microbial communities, primarily based on high-throughput amplicon sequencing data (such as SSU rRNA) generated on a variety of platforms, but also supporting analysis of other types of…

Course Overview: This course will introduce and explain the different applications for bioacoustics to answer ecological questions. Starting with a detailed overview of the correct and most efficient methods of data collecting in the field, this course will then go on to show delegates cutting edge methods for analysing and interpreting different types of bioacoustic data. By the end of this 5-day practical course, attendees will have the capacity to set up and deploy recording devices, download acoustic data, how…

Course Overview: This course will cover introductory hierarchical modelling for real-world data sets from a Bayesian perspective. These methods lie at the forefront of statistics research and are a vital tool in the scientist’s toolbox. The course focuses on introducing concepts and demonstrating good practice in hierarchical models. All methods are demonstrated with data sets which participants can run themselves. Participants will be taught how to fit hierarchical models using the Bayesian modelling software Jags and Stan through the R…

Course Overview: To find out more or to book online via our sister company (PS statistics) use the link below… https://www.psstatistics.com/course/generalised-linear-glm-nonlinear-nlglm-and-general-additive-models-gam-gnam01/ “This was by far the most useful statistic-related course I’ve done to date and I enjoyed all aspects of the course. The course was useful because it put into prospective the ecology aspect within the statistics. All parameters were explained in an ecological manner which made the math aspect much clearer. It helped to change the view I’ve got…

Course Overview: To find out more or to book online via our sister company (PS statistics) use the link below… https://www.psstatistics.com/course/structural-equation-modelling-and-path-analysis-smpa01/ “This was by far the most useful statistic-related course I’ve done to date and I enjoyed all aspects of the course. The course was useful because it put into prospective the ecology aspect within the statistics. All parameters were explained in an ecological manner which made the math aspect much clearer. It helped to change the view I’ve got…

Course Overview: Coming soon... To find out more or to book online via our sister company (PS statistics) use the link below… https://www.psstatistics.com/course/data-science-analytics-using-python-dsap01/ “This was by far the most useful statistic-related course I’ve done to date and I enjoyed all aspects of the course. The course was useful because it put into prospective the ecology aspect within the statistics. All parameters were explained in an ecological manner which made the math aspect much clearer. It helped to change the view…

Course Overview: This 5-day course will cover the concepts, methods, and R tools that can be used to analyse community ecology data. The course will review data processing techniques relevant to multivariate data sets. We will cover diversity and null-model analysis, distance measures and distance based multivariate methods, clustering, classification, and dimension reduction techniques using the vegan R extension package. We will use real world data sets to motivate the analyses, e.g. describing patterns along environmental or anthropogenic disturbance gradients,…

Course Overview: This 5-day course will involve a combination of lectures and practical sessions. Students will learn to build and fit custom models for analysing behavioural data using maximum likelihood techniques in R. This flexible approach allows a researcher to a) use a statistical model that directly represents their hypothesis, in cases where standard models are not appropriate and b) better understand how standard statistical models (e.g. GLMs) are fitted, many of which are fitted by maximum likelihood. Students will…

Course Overview: This 5-day course will cover the concepts, methods, and R tools that can be used to analyse spatial and spatiotemporal data through Geostatistic. The course will review data processing techniques relevant to spatial and spatiotemporal data sets. Following, we will cover spatial interpolation methods such as inverse distance weighted interpolation as well as simple, ordinary and universal kriging, sequential Gaussian (co)simulation and sequential indicator (co)simulation. Through these different interpolation methods, we will learn about the different types of…

Course Overview: The course will cover the concepts, technology and software tools that can be used to analyse movement data (from ringing/CMR to VHF/GPS to novel biologging data) in ecology and evolution, covering analysis techniques applicable broadly to most taxa, from micro-organisms to plants and animals. We will cover elementary and advanced analysis and modelling techniques broadly applicable across taxa, highlighting the advantages of a unified Movement Ecology framework. We will provide the necessary bases in ecology (especially behavioural ecology),…

This course will now be delivered live by video link in light of travel restrictions due to the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak. This is a ‘LIVE COURSE’ – the instructor will be delivering lectures and coaching attendees through the accompanying computer practical’s via video link, a good internet connection is essential. Course Overview: This course will cover introductory hierarchical modelling for real-world data sets from a Bayesian perspective. These methods lie at the forefront of statistics research and are a vital…

This course will now be delivered live by video link in light of travel restrictions due to the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak. This is a ‘LIVE COURSE’ – the instructor will be delivering lectures and coaching attendees through the accompanying computer practical’s via video link, a good internet connection is essential. TIME ZONE – Western European Time - however all sessions will be recorded and made available allowing attendees from different time zones to follow a day behind with an additional…

This course will now be delivered live by video link in light of travel restrictions due to the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak. This is a ‘LIVE COURSE’ – the instructor will be delivering lectures and coaching attendees through the accompanying computer practical’s via video link, a good internet connection is essential. TIME ZONE – Western European Time - however all sessions will be recorded and made available allowing attendees from different time zones to follow a day behind with an additional…

This course will now be delivered live by video link in light of travel restrictions due to the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak. This is a ‘LIVE COURSE’ – the instructor will be delivering lectures and coaching attendees through the accompanying computer practical’s via video link, a good internet connection is essential. TIME ZONE – Western European Summer Time - however all sessions will be recorded and made available allowing attendees from different time zones to follow a day behind with an…