Ecological Forecasting Initiative

Join us tomorrow! 12th November at 1pm CET. The European EFI Chapter is hosting Iestyn Woolway to present.

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More details about the webinar series and previous sessions are available at: ecoforecast.org/workshops/st...

The workshop will provide beginners with an introduction to important movement ecology concepts, as well as hands-on experience using the award-winning “continuous-time movement modeling” (ctmm) R package to apply advanced statistical methods to tracking data.

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: EFI-ESA Stats Seminar: prioritizr R package. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. This Statistical Methods seminar by the Ecological Forecasting Initiative and the Ecological Society of America Statistical Ecology Section is hosting Dr. Richard Schuster from Nature Conservancy of C...

Don't forget to join us next Monday, November 3, for the Statistical Methods webinar series we are co-hosting with the @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Statistical Ecology Section.

Dr. Richard Schuster will share about “Decision support using the {prioritizr} R package.”

Register at: bit.ly/3H9A3wt

Ecological Forecasting Initiative October 2025 Newsletter Email from Ecological Forecasting Initiative EFI Newsletter Issue 53| October 27, 2025 Trouble viewing this email? View as Webpage A few things to highlight this month:  EFI2026: Call for workshop a

Issue 53 of the EFI newsletter is now available!

Find updates on

- the annual EFI conference, other upcoming conference sessions, workshops, and seminars
- invites to participate in working group activities
- awards
- new bylaws & playbook for international chapters

and more!

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🧊 Did your model freeze in time? Let’s bring it back to life!
Join our hands-on workshop “Building Near-Term Iterative Forecasting Workflows” at #TIBS2026 – Aarhus, 6 Jan 2026 🌍
We’ll explore how to turn static predictions into dynamic, self-updating forecasts. @paniw.bsky.social

More details about the webinar series and previous sessions are available at: ecoforecast.org/workshops/st...

Systematic Conservation Prioritization in R Systematic conservation prioritization using mixed integer linear programming (MILP). It provides a flexible interface for building and solving conservation planning problems. Once built, conservation...

The {prioritizr} package is a decision support tool for custom-tailored conservation planning. Its flexible interface provides systematic conservation prioritization using mixed integer linear programming and is compatible with a variety of spatially explicit and nonspatial tabular data formats.

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: EFI-ESA Stats Seminar: prioritizr R package. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. This Statistical Methods seminar by the Ecological Forecasting Initiative and the Ecological Society of America Statistical Ecology Section is hosting Dr. Richard Schuster from Nature Conservancy of C...

The next seminar in the Statistical Methods webinar series hosted with the @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Statistical Ecology Section is on November 3 at noon US ET.

Richard Schuster will present on “Decision support using the {prioritizr} R package”
prioritizr.net

Register at: bit.ly/3H9A3wt

EFI Social Science & Ecoforecasting Award RFP.

📆Deadline: Dec 15, 2025

$1,000 grants available for 5 project groups led by a social scientist to either 1) develop a proposal for external funding or 2) convene a group to explore ideas and potential funding sources.

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More details about the webinar series and previous sessions are available at: ecoforecast.org/workshops/st...

The {unmarked} package works with animal abundance and occurrence data collected with methods that do not require individually marked animals. The workshop will demonstrate a basic workflow and will highlight recent features supporting random effects and tools for simulation and power analysis.

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: EFI-ESA Stats Seminar: The {unmarked} R package for fitting hierarchical models of animal abundance and occurrence. After registering, you will receive a c... This Statistical Methods seminar by the Ecological Forecasting Initiative and the Ecological Society of America Statistical Ecology Section is hosting Dr. Kenneth Kellner from Michigan State Universit...

📣 Reminder: Join EFI and the @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Statistical Ecology section

📆 next Monday, October 6 at noon US ET

📖 to learn from Dr. Kenneth Kellner about “The {unmarked} R package for fitting hierarchical models of animal abundance and occurrence”

✅ Register at: bit.ly/3H7tri7

More details about the webinar series and previous sessions are available at: ecoforecast.org/workshops/st...

The {unmarked} R package works with animal abundance and occurrence data. The workshop will demonstrate a basic workflow and will highlight new features, including support for random effects and tools for simulation and power analysis.

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: EFI-ESA Stats Seminar: The {unmarked} R package for fitting hierarchical models of animal abundance and occurrence. After registering, you will receive a c... This Statistical Methods seminar by the Ecological Forecasting Initiative and the Ecological Society of America Statistical Ecology Section is hosting Dr. Kenneth Kellner from Michigan State Universit...

We will co-host the next Statistical Methods webinar on October 6 at noon US ET with the @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Statistical Ecology Section

Kenneth Kellner will present “The {unmarked} R package for fitting hierarchical models of animal abundance and occurrence”

Register at: bit.ly/3H7tri7

Ecological Forecasting Initiative September 2025 Newsletter Email from Ecological Forecasting Initiative EFI Newsletter Issue 52| September 15, 2025 Trouble viewing this email? View as Webpage A few big things to highlight this month:  EFI2026 will happen Au

Lots of updates in the latest EFI newsletter! conta.cc/4gsAT4X

* Save the date for the Aug 5-7, EFI2026 Conference in Toronto, Canada (set aside Aug 4 for working group activities)
* new working groups
* proposed bylaw changes to formalize international chapter activities
* and lots more!

Photos Capture the Extreme, Beautiful Work of Climate Science | Quanta Magazine Building an accurate model of Earth’s climate requires a lot of data. Photography reveals the extreme efforts scientists have undertaken to measure gases, glaciers, clouds and more.

Today, I am part of one of her stories with my work in the TransPlant Network at @ethz.ch , our experiment in France Université Grenoble Alpes and the @ecoforecast.bsky.social , honored to be featured alongside scientists in climate science and ecology.

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More details about the webinar series and previous sessions are available at: ecoforecast.org/workshops/st...

This workshop will provide beginners with an introduction to important movement ecology concepts, as well as hands-on experience using the award-winning “continuous-time movement modeling” (ctmm) R package to apply advanced statistical methods to tracking data.

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: EFI-ESA Stats Seminar: Introduction to continuous-time movement modeling for animal tracking data. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email... This Statistical Methods seminar by the Ecological Forecasting Initiative and the Ecological Society of America Statistical Ecology Section is hosting Dr. Christen Fleming from the University of Centr...

Join us for a webinar next Monday, September 8 at noon US ET for an “Introduction to Continuous-time Movement Modeling for Animal Tracking Data”

Register at: bit.ly/4lRRbGl

After the summer hiatus, the European EFI chapter is starting up its monthly seminar series. Join us!
Details at: euro-ecoforecast.wordpress.com/seminar-seri...

More details about the webinar series and previous sessions are available at: ecoforecast.org/workshops/st...

This workshop will provide beginners with an introduction to important movement ecology concepts, as well as hands-on experience using the award-winning “continuous-time movement modeling” (ctmm) R package to apply advanced statistical methods to tracking data.

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: EFI-ESA Stats Seminar: Introduction to continuous-time movement modeling for animal tracking data. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email... This Statistical Methods seminar by the Ecological Forecasting Initiative and the Ecological Society of America Statistical Ecology Section is hosting Dr. Christen Fleming from the University of Centr...

We are co-hosting the 5th round of the Statistical Methods webinar series with the @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Statistical Ecology Section.

Join us on September 8 at noon US ET for an “Introduction to Continuous-time Movement Modeling for Animal Tracking Data”

Register at: bit.ly/4lRRbGl

A new recording has been added to the EFI Translation working group's series on engaged research. "Who are end users and interested parties?" is available, along with the Intro, Why, When, and What of engaged research.

Details and links to recordings are here: ecoforecast.org/engaged-rese...

Please join us for two exciting forecasting sessions today at #esa2025! From 8-9:30a, “Ecological Forecasting for Research and Decision making” and from 1:30-3p “Back and Forecasting in Ecology”.

On Thursday, there will be two forecasting sessions (OOS35 and COS152) between 8-9:30a and 1:30-3p. Come say hi and connect !

Also on Tuesday are two workshops - Building Data Sciencd Skills using forecasting (8-9:30a HH3) and an Ecological Forecasting Challenge workshop using NEON beetle data from 11:45a-1:15p (WK14)