ONLINE COURSE: Introduction to Capture-Mark-Recapture
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Emily Uhrig
Aug 20, 2025, 12:41:19 AMAug 20
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Looking to build your skills in capture-mark-recapture methods? Join this online course and learn at your own pace from anywhere in the world with internet access!
DESCRIPTION:
Research and management questions often focus on obtaining robust estimates of abundance, density, population growth, state transition, and/or vital rates to obtain insights into population status and drivers of change. Among the most popular and diverse approaches to estimating such parameters includes a suite of sampling and analytical methods known as capture-mark-recapture (mark-recap or several similar terms). This class will focus on providing a solid foundation for using these techniques for a broad range of objectives. We emphasize asking good questions, identifying appropriate sampling methods rooted in animal behavior and ecology, and choosing the right analytical techniques in both MARK and RMark. We will show how simulations can be used to improve study design and discuss their limitations. For many of the exercises in this course, we will focus on analyzing data from large-scale grizzly bear projects co-led by Dr. Stetz. Focusing on this case study will help practitioners see more clearly how the elements of a study (background, objectives, field methods, analyses, and modeling assumptions) interact, and how this leads to better study design and execution.
PREREQUISITES:
Introductory statistics; basic experience in R (R Boot Camp); and familiarity with logistic regression (Generalized Linear, Additive, & Mixed Models), population ecology, and animal behavior.
DATES:
Fall: September 2 - November 23, 2025
Complete this course online from anywhere in the world with internet access.
PRICE:
Rates start at $350 for students/unemployed, $450 for employed.
LEARN MORE & SIGN UP:
https://www.centerforwildlifestudies.org/courses/p/capture-mark-recapture
DESCRIPTION:
Research and management questions often focus on obtaining robust estimates of abundance, density, population growth, state transition, and/or vital rates to obtain insights into population status and drivers of change. Among the most popular and diverse approaches to estimating such parameters includes a suite of sampling and analytical methods known as capture-mark-recapture (mark-recap or several similar terms). This class will focus on providing a solid foundation for using these techniques for a broad range of objectives. We emphasize asking good questions, identifying appropriate sampling methods rooted in animal behavior and ecology, and choosing the right analytical techniques in both MARK and RMark. We will show how simulations can be used to improve study design and discuss their limitations. For many of the exercises in this course, we will focus on analyzing data from large-scale grizzly bear projects co-led by Dr. Stetz. Focusing on this case study will help practitioners see more clearly how the elements of a study (background, objectives, field methods, analyses, and modeling assumptions) interact, and how this leads to better study design and execution.
PREREQUISITES:
Introductory statistics; basic experience in R (R Boot Camp); and familiarity with logistic regression (Generalized Linear, Additive, & Mixed Models), population ecology, and animal behavior.
DATES:
Fall: September 2 - November 23, 2025
Complete this course online from anywhere in the world with internet access.
PRICE:
Rates start at $350 for students/unemployed, $450 for employed.
LEARN MORE & SIGN UP:
https://www.centerforwildlifestudies.org/courses/p/capture-mark-recapture
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