I am recruiting a Postdoc in quantitative/statistical ecology to join my lab at NC State! Research topics are flexible but the focus will be on modeling large-scale forest and/or wildlife dynamics. See below for more details and how to apply!.

I will start reviewing applications for a MS or PhD-level position in my lab on September 30. See details below!.

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I am recruiting a graduate student (MS or PhD) for Fall 2025 to join my new Statistical Ecology and Forest Science Lab at North Carolina State University! Please share widely! . Details here:

🚨There is now a "spOccupancy and spAbundance users" mailing list! This will be the primary place to ask questions on using the two R packages going forward. If you use the packages I encourage you to join the group!.

I am beyond excited to announce that I will be starting as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources at North Carolina State University this fall! More info soon on opportunities for a grad student and postdoc to join the lab!

Had such a great time talking about hierarchical spatial occupancy and abundance models at @Vogelwarte_scie last week in Switzerland with an amazing group of researchers! All workshop lectures and exercises are freely available on GitHub:

RT @n_a_gilbert: New paper out now in @ESAEcology! 😍. A multispecies hierarchical model to integrate count and distance-sampling data. Mult….

Super fun application of spAbundance! Thanks for sharing @javi_ferlop!.

Thrilled to share our new paper in @MethodsEcolEvol that introduces the spAbundance R package for fitting a variety of single-species and multi-species spatially explicit abundance models! .

Just over 3 weeks left to apply for our spatial occupancy/abundance modeling workshop in Switzerland. More details on course content and how to apply here:

RT @FiebergJohn: I'm excited to share that I published a first version of my Statistics 4 Ecologists book with University of Minnesota Libr….

🚨New paper! We built spatially-varying coefficient occupancy models in spOccupancy to explore spatially-varying species-environment relationships and quantified variation in max temperature effects on grassland birds in the US @ZipkinLab @SarahPSaunders

RT @masonfidino: Can we stop looking at histograms of animal diel activity and trusting our gut to classify species diel behavior (e.g., no….

Interested in single-visit occupancy models? Check out our new paper for some insights on how reliable model estimates are under a variety of simulation scenarios.

Registration is open for a 4-day workshop 24-27 June 2024 @ Swiss Ornithological Institute in Sempach, Switzerland taught by Marc Kéry and myself on hierarchical spatial modeling of species distributions using spOccupancy and spAbundance. Details here:

Very excited to announce my new R package spAbundance for fitting single-species and multi-species spatially-explicit N-mixture models, distance sampling models, and GLMMs. Includes options for random intercepts/slopes and species correlations. #rstats

5-day workshop by Marc Kéry, Dusit Ngoprasert, Ngumbang Juat on "Applied hierarchical modelling of species distribution and abundance with R package unmarked and spOccupancy" in Bangkok, Thailand. Registration:

RT @n_a_gilbert: We estimated that birders spent roughly *half a million dollars* to look for the wayward Steller's Sea-Eagle over only a c….

Some exciting new functionality in spOccupancy is now available on CRAN including: . ✅ Multi-species, multi-season occupancy models.✅Multi-species spatially-varying coefficient occupancy models. More details:

Interested in multi-species occupancy models with species correlations and spatial autocorrelation? Check out our new paper in @ESAEcology and our vignette below for fitting the models in spOccupancy: