The BWG Graduate Student Special Committee is seeking volunteers to help build our repository and webinar series! All are welcome to join!
The BWG Resource Hub hosts a public database of biometric resources (tutorials, books, blogs, etc.) and webinar recordings to assist students and beginner/senior professionals develop and expand appropriate technical skills for use in the research and management of wildlife resources. Need to learn or brush up on occupancy modeling? What are best practices on how to store and manage camera trap photos? The BWG Resource Hub is a good place to start or revamp your wildlife biometric adventures.
The BWG Graduate Student Committee established and maintains this hub.
Search repository resources, recorded BWG webinars & workshops, and files contributed by members on the Google Drive.
swirl is a software package for the R programming language that turns the R console into an interactive learning environment. Users receive immediate feedback as they are guided through self-paced lessons in data science and R programming.
This online course introduces key software packages and fundamental models used in fish and wildlife population analysis. Course content includes the parameterization of models used to estimate ecological state variables such as occupancy and abundance as well as population vital rates such as survival, recruitment, and dispersal. The course is comprised of instructional videos with associated datasets and R code.