Talks and presentations
“Flexible hidden Markov models in ecology and the R package hmmTMB”
Invited seminar at Memorial University, St John’s, Canada. November 2023.
Invited talk at CANSSI/OTN early-career workshop, Halifax, Canada. November 2023.
Invited webinar for the Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice, online. November 2023.
Recording available online
“Towards a mechanistic understanding of animal movement”
Invited discussion leader at the Gordon Research Seminar on Movement Ecology, Bargga, Italy. May 2023.
“Multiscale models of animal space use: from small-scale movement to large-scale distributions”
Poster at the Gordon Research Conference on Movement Ecology, Bargga, Italy. June 2023.
Remote invited seminar for the BioMove research group. March 2023.
“Flexible stochastic differential equations for animal movement”
Invited talk at the International Conference in Statistics and Data Science, Florence, Italy. December 2022.
“Varying-coefficient stochastic differential equations”
Invited talk at the JABES showcase of the International Biometric Conference, online. October 2022.
Invited talk at the Joint Statistical Meeting, online. August 2022.
“Detecting behavioural responses from movement data using stochastic differential equations”
Talk at the International Statistical Ecology Conference, online. June 2022.
“Multiscale models of animal movement and space use”
Seminar at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. February 2022.
“Introduction to analysing animal movement data in R”
Webinar of Ecological Forecasting Initiative & Ecological Society of America. February 2022.
Recording available online.
“hmmTMB: hidden Markov models with non-parametric and random effects”
Talk at the meeting of the National Centre for Statistical Ecology Conference, online. June 2021.
“Time-varying diffusion processes in movement ecology”
Talk at the International Statistical Ecology Conference, online. June 2020.
“Linking scales of animal movement using statistical samplers”
Seminar at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. March 2020.
“Behavioural response studies of beaked whales using accelerometer data and diffusion models”
Talk at the British Ecological Society conference, Belfast, UK. December 2019.
“Hidden Markov models for the study of animal movement using R”
Seminar at the University of St Andrews, UK. November 2019.
“Spline-based diffusion models and application to accelerometer data”
Seminar at the University of Glasgow, UK. November 2019.
Seminar at the University of St Andrews, UK. November 2019.
“Hidden Markov models of animal movement and behaviour”
Seminar at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. November 2019.
Talk at the congress of the Sociedade Portuguesa de Estatistica, Amarante, Portugal. November 2019.
“Modelling animal movement and habitat selection across scales”
Invited talk at the annual meeting of the BES movement ecology group, Sheffield, UK. July 2019.
“The Langevin diffusion as a model of animal movement and habitat selection”
Talk at the meeting of the National Centre for Statistical Ecology, Edinburgh, UK. June 2019.
“Modelling animal movement and habitat selection across scales”
Seminar at the School of Biosciences of the University of Cardiff, UK. March 2019.
“Analysing telemetry data with hidden Markov models”
Seminar at the Duke University Marine Lab, Beaufort, USA. March 2019.
“Do animals move like statistical samplers?”
Talk at the Research Students’ Conference in Probability and Statistics, Sheffield, UK. July 2018.
“Markov chain Monte Carlo as a model of animal movement and space use”
Talk at the International Statistical Ecology Conference, St Andrews, UK. July 2018.
“moveHMM and momentuHMM – Analysing animal movement in R”
Tutorial at the moving2gather meeting, Montpellier, France. December 2017.
“Can animals do MCMC? Linking resource selection and step selection models”
Poster at the Bio-logging symposium, Konstanz, Germany. September 2017.
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“Hidden Markov models for animal movement and other ecological data”.
Two-day workshop held in St Andrews, UK. August 2017.
“From movement to space use”
Flash talk at the meeting of BES movement ecology group, London, UK. July 2017.
“momentuHMM: an R package for the analysis of general telemetry data using hidden Markov models”
Talk at the EURING meeting, Barcelona, Spain. July 2017.
“Can animals do MCMC? Integrating resource selection and step selection”
Talk at the meeting of the National Centre for Statistical Ecology, Canterbury, UK. June 2017.
“Analysing animal movement data with moveHMM – Conservation action plan for the wild haggis”
Talk at the International Statistical Ecology Conference, Seattle, USA. June 2016.
Best student talk award.
“Multistate Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes for modelling animal movement”
Talk at the Research Students’ Conference in Probability and Statistics, Dublin, Ireland. June 2016.
“moveHMM: an R package for modelling animal movement with hidden Markov models”
Seminar at the Australian Antarctic Division, Hobart, Australia. June 2016.
Seminar at the Sea Mammal Research Unit, St Andrews, UK. November 2015.
“Hidden Markov models for animal movement and other ecological data”.
Three-day workshop held in Mossel Bay, South Africa. March 2016.
Workshop report
“A statistical introduction to animal movement modelling”
Talk at the German Statistical Week, Hamburg, Germany. September 2015.