Entries by mcollmonton

March 2018 – Course on Modeling Species Distributions: Methods and Applications, with emphasis on Bayesian Modelling (ICM-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain)

Organization of specialized course from the 27th February to 2nd March 2018, at the Institute of Marine Science (ICM-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain. Teacher: Dr. Maria Gracia Pennino, Dr. David Conesa, Dr. Joaquín Martínez Minaya Species Distribution Models (SDMs) are now widely used in many research fields for several purposes across terrestrial, freshwater, and marine realms. In […]

New postdoctoral position in ecological modelling

POSTDOCTORAL POSITION IN ECOLOGICAL MODELLING TO ASSESS THE IMPACT OF THE INVASIVE SNOW CRAB ON THE BARENTS SEA ECOSYSTEM Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA, Oslo) and Akvaplan-niva (APN, Tromsø), Norway POSTDOCTORAL POSITION WITHIN THE EISA PROJECT A Postdoc position for 24 months is available at the Norwegian Institute for Water Research connected to the […]

February 2018 – Stakeholders Workshop “Recent research about small pelagic fish at ICM” (ICM-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain)

We organized a first workshop with the fisheries associations and representatives of the small pelagic fisheries “Recerca actual sobre els peixos petits pelàgics al ICM” to introduce them two of our new projects PELWEB and SPELMED, which aim at investigating recent trends of small pelagic fish in the Western Mediterranean Sea, at the Institute of […]

Scientists Warning to Humanity

I signed the #ScientistsWarningtoHumanity https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/bix125 and other scientists can still help by endorsing the article here: http://scientistswarning.forestry.oregonstate.edu/ Join the effort!

November 2017 – Introduction course to food web modeling with Ecopath with Ecosim (ICM-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain)

A three-day introductory course to food web modeling with Eopath with Ecosim was taught in Barcelona, Spain, from 6 to 8 November 2017. This course introduced basic concepts and modelling procedures of aquatic ecosystems using the Ecopath with Ecosim food web modeling approach. Participants were provided with the principles behind EwE (http://www.ecopath.org), and how to […]

July 2017 – Ramon Margalef Summer Colloquia “Spatial and temporal patterns in physical-biological oceanic processes: from scale interaction to the rise of the living ocean” (ICM-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain)

Marta Coll participated as a teacher in the Ramon Margalef Summer Colloquia “Spatial and temporal patterns in physical-biological oceanic processes: from scale interaction to the rise of the living ocean”. Institute of Marine Science (ICM-CSIC), 02nd to 12th July 2017, Barcelona, Spain.

Kelpex Off the Deep End!

Within Kelpex project, WP3 team started the research cruise. This part of the KELPEX project will look at the movement and influence of kelp on deep-sea communities. http://www.kelpex.org/single-post/2017/04/27/Off-the-deep-end

Opportunity to develop a MSc thesis on Kelp Ecology

Under the project KELPEX (Kelp export: fuel for adjacent communities in changing artic ecosystems? http://www.niva.no/kelpex) we are offering a MSc thesis on kelp ecology. KELPEX is a multidisciplinary project integrating research in kelp forest, biodiversity, coastal and deep-sea ecology and modelling, to determine the role played by kelp export in shaping the structure and function […]