Provide instruction on the format, procedures and vocabularies used to upload acoustic and biotic data to ICES Trawl acoustic database. Provide instruction on the use of the R based StoX open source analysis software to generate biomass and abundance estimates from acoustic survey data.
Tentative agenda for the joint ICES-Norwegian Institute of Marine Research (IMR) survey estimation with StoX course:
Monday 11. November
- Introduction StoX and the plans for the course
- Installation
- Input data and ICES acoustic/biotic database
- Data representation in StoX
Tuesday 12. November
- Swept-area survey estimation with StoX
Wednesday 13. November
- Acoustic-trawl survey estimation with StoX
Thursday 14. November
- From StoX to advice
- ICES Transparent assessment framework (TAF)
- Survey time series at the IMR
- Running StoX in R
Friday 15. November
- Fisheries dependent analysis in StoX (Estimated Catch at Age, the catch sample lottery, etc.)
Course instructors:
- Arne Johannes Homin (IMR)
- Hjalte Parner (ICES)
- Johanna Fall (IMR)
- Espen Johnsen (IMR)
- Edvin Fulgebakk (IMR)
- Adriana Villamor (ICES)
Application procedure
Deadline for registration: 1 October 2024 (Training Registration (ices.dk))
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ISCED Categories
Statistiek
Wetenschappelijke modellering
Aquacultuur
Visserij
Ecologie