MARK Workshop

Sponsored by The Wildlife Society Biometrics Working Group.

An advanced workshop will be held at Canterbury University, Christchurch, New Zealand, in December 2003 as part of the 3rd International Wildlife Congress in Christchurch, New Zealand, 1-5 December 2003 led by Gary White and Richard Barker.

Program MARK, developed by Gary White , has revolutionized mark-recapture analysis in recent years. Using MARK, scientists and managers are able to carry out sophisticated analyses of their MARK recapture data using a powerful model fitting and model selection framework.

The aim of the workshop is to update experienced MARK users on some of the latest developments in MARK. The workshop format will be a series of presentations in the morning session and a computer session in the afternoon.

Draft Workshop Programme.

Morning Session:

8:00 – 8:15 Overview of Program MARK Gary C. White

8:15 – 8:50 Estimating Site Occupancy with Program MARK. Darryl I. MacKenzie.

8:50 – 9:25 Estimating Nest Success with Program MARK. Stephen J. Dinsmore and Jay Rotella..

9:25 – 10:00 Mixture Models for Estimating Population Size with Closed Models. Shirley Pledger.

10:00 – 10:30 Break

10:30 – 11:00 Robust Designs with Dead Encounters. William L. Kendall, Mark Lindberg and Richard J. Barker.

11:00 – 11:30 Known Fate Data – Why Program MARK versus Kaplan-Meier or Heisey-Fuller? Gary C. White.

11:30 – 12:00 The Achilles Heel – Estimating Overdispersion. Richard J. Barker, Gary White and Darryl Mackenzie.

12:00 – 12:10 Panel Discussion

12:10 – 13:20 Lunch

Afternoon Session:

13:20 – 15:20 Program MARK Workshop Computer Lab

15:20 – 15:50 Break

15:50 – 17:30 Program MARK Workshop Computer Lab Continued.

Workshop Cost.

At this stage we anticipate that there will be no registration fee. .

Registration.

Due to interest that has already been expressed in the workshop we anticipate strong demand for workshop places. To avoid compromising our ability to effectively teach we will restrict the number of places to about 30. Places in the first workshop will be assigned on a 'first come, first served' basis. Details have not been finalized yet, however registration will probably be handled by the conference organisers.

Contact for Further Information.

Richard J. Barker
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Otago
P.O. Box 56
Dunedin
New Zealand


Phone:64+3+479 7756
Fax:64+3+479 8427
Email:Rbarker@maths.otago.ac.nz

or

Gary C. White

Department of Fishery and Wildlife Biology

Colorado State University

Fort Collins, CO 80523 USA

Phone: (970) 491-6678

Fax: (970) 491-5091

Email: gwhite@cnr.colostate.edu