StanConnect 2021 - Ecology, Workflow and modelling innovations

This StanConnect event will take place on October 4, 2021, at 12PM EST.

Speaker Name	Position/title/occupation	Affiliation	Tentative Talk Title
Josh Goldberg	Research Associate	Bhutan Ecological Society	Evolution of habitat use and coexistence under intraguild predation: a principled Bayesian approach
Zach Randell	PhD Candidate	Oregon State University	Drift algae controls the consumption of kelp: using data from in situ subtidal experimentation and ordinary differential equations to mechanistically model the sea urchin behavioral switch
Joaquin Cavieres	PhD candidate	University of Valparaiso	Linking the SPDE method with Stan
Casey Youngflesh	Postdoctoral fellow	University of California, Los Angeles	Using Stan to characterize large-scale morphological change in North American birds
Vianey Leos Barajas	Asst Professor	University of Toronto	Fitting hidden Markov models to ecological time series data in Stan

Program

Tentative schedule (times in ET) of each event:

• 12pm - 12:10pm: Introduction to the Event by SGB representative, Introduction to theme by Session Chair (reduced since it’s part II).
• 12:10 - 1:50pm: five 20-minute talks - 15 minute presentation + 5 minute Q&A.
• 1:50pm - 2:30pm: Zoom Networking/Social session, structure TBD but not limited to one room per speaker. 2:30pm – 3:00pm: panel discussion (3 panelists plus JBS moderator) and wrap-up

Organizers:

Session Chair: Jacob B. Socolar - Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Registration

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