COURSE AIMS
AND OBJECTIVES

The goal of
this course is to introduce participants to modern statistical methods used in
fisheries stock assessment and natural resource modeling. This five-day
intensive course is structured as a series of modules each containing
theoretical lectures, demonstrations, but most importantly, working sessions
with practical exercises in stock assessment modeling. Topics covered in the
course will include: 1) Fitting models to data; 2) alternative modeling
approaches; 3) statistical age-structured models; and 4) the Stock Synthesis
(SS) statistical age-structured modeling software.

COURSE FEE

The course
is FREE

APPLICATIONS

Register HERE

INSTRUCTORS

Alexandre
Aires-da-Silva

Senior
Scientist, Stock Assessment Program Inter-American
Tropical Tuna Commission, La Jolla, California, USA

Felipe
Carvalho

Fisheries
Scientist, Stock Assessment Program NOAA,
Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

TARGETED
AUDIENCE

Researchers
and PhD students

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24.04.2015