TRAINING PROGRAMS AND WORKSHOPS

FIELD METHODS, REMOTE SENSING, GIS AND R

These workshops are centred on developing the skills essential for quantitative research and range from basic introductory classes for beginners to advanced sessions for those who are considerably experienced. We have organised and taught a number of practical workshops covering the applications of remote sensing, GIS and statistical analysis using the R programming environment within the fields of landscape ecology, field hydrology, wildlife biology, fisheries ecology and more recently epidemiology. We also periodically teach field methods in the aforementioned disciplines including participatory methods for social and vulnerability mapping. These workshops vary in duration and are in fact, the most frequent types of events organised at FERAL and typically involve active participation from those attending. At the end of each workshop attendees have the ability to plan and implement relevant techniques using GIS and R that are guided by well defined scientific questions and a clear understanding that these techniques vary with research design in terms of the required data collection, entry, organisation, compilation and analysis.