All right, we now have about 2 weeks left until our exam and then a further couple of days until we present our individual projects, and the steam pressure is about to overclock! Meanwhile the temperature feels like it has dropped to less than 10 °C all day around, which really has started marked we… Continue reading Running up towards exams
Category: Fish and Wildlife Programme
Crowd-Sourcing Data
Don’t you just get the idea sometimes that you just can’t find any chanterelles wherever you look and all you want to do is give up in pure frustration? Well, I guess the world of researchers isn’t too far flung after all – what can happen is that some data is way too difficult to… Continue reading Crowd-Sourcing Data
Distance Sampling Field Exercise
Look carefully! Picture of the day: A Great Tit (?), ISO 100, 196 mm, f/5.6, 1/160. Earlier this week we had a field exercise in distance sampling – really makes you think about how difficult it can be to spot what you’re looking for! Really so if you’re looking for something that’s (kind-of) camouflaged, small,… Continue reading Distance Sampling Field Exercise
What’cha got there, buddy?
Picture of the day: German Shorthaired Pointer, ISO 720; 178 mm; f/5.6; 1/125 We had an interesting lecture about experimental design in ecology earlier to walk us through the do’s and whatnots of conducting your own experiment: might sound strict, but in the end it’s all about how to best get the answer to your… Continue reading What’cha got there, buddy?
Specialist software
Picture of the day: Common Goldeneye, ISO 400; 143 mm; f/5.6; 1/320 Being able to understand and apply different census methods & techniques is an irreplaceable skill to any wildlife manager – perhaps today more than ever! Fortunately, the hassle of summarizing some distant data by hand is left behind at your old Stat. 101 course,… Continue reading Specialist software
Project: Plan your own Census!
As I mentioned earlier, a big part of the Census Techniques course is planning your own census – in the form of a project proposal to an agency! I’ll be working with monitoring the Willow Ptarmigan population, but good ornithologists might notice I’ve sneaked in an islandic subspecies of Rock Ptarmigan on the cover photo.… Continue reading Project: Plan your own Census!
Census Techniques Starts!
Finally, after 3 years at university, today marked the day I finally got to get my hands on the first course in the masters programme that got me to move 1080 kms north to Umeå! The first days of the course started up with a get-to-know-eachother exercise, followed by a brief topic introduction and startup of… Continue reading Census Techniques Starts!
Welcome to the Fish and Wildlife Blog!
During the coming academic year, I will be putting up some of the weekly highlights from the four core courses of SLUs Masters Programme in the Management of Fish and Wildlife Populations! – Fish and Wildlife Census Techniques – Applied Population Ecology – Human Dimensions of Fish and Wildlife Management – Fish and Wildlife Management… Continue reading Welcome to the Fish and Wildlife Blog!