Our focus is to build a diverse community of individuals who are 1) trained on the methods, theory and decision science to create iterative near-term forecasts, or 2) trained to use the forecast predictions in management and policy. The Education and Diversity & Inclusion are separate working groups, but work closely together with a focus on building an inclusive community of practice among ecological forecasting educators and developing open, collaborative, and extensible teaching materials at the undergraduate, graduate, and professional levels. We think training in ecological forecasting is important for all ecologists, not just those actively building forecasts. For example, the approaches used to design experiments and collect data can change nontrivially if we want to inform predictions.
Education Working Group Schedule of Calls:
The Education Group will be meet on January 12, February 9, March 16, April 13, May 11 at 2pm US Eastern. A new schedule of calls will be developed for June to August 2023. We are always open to people joining the calls, contact us at eco4cast.initiative@gmail.com
Education Resources
Go the Educational Resources Page to get
- A compiled list of over hundred educational resources related to Ecological Forecasting
- 2-page pdf overview of what ecological forecasting is and potential careers as well as examples of courses that is a starting point for students to learn more about the concepts and statistical and computational tools used in ecological forecasting
- Infographics to support teaching and learning biostats in R
- Example syllabi for ecological forecasting courses
Notes from Working Group Calls
Chair: Jason McLachlan (University of Notre Dame)
- February 9, 2023
- January 12, 2023
- December 5, 2022
- November 7, 2022
- October 10, 2022
- September 12, 2022
- August 10, 2022
- July 13, 2022
- June 15, 2022
- May 4, 2022
- April 6, 2022
- March 9, 2022
- February 9, 2022
- January 12, 2022
- November 18, 2021
- October 14, 2021
- September 16, 2021
- August 18, 2021
- July 14, 2021
- June 16, 2021
- May 10, 2021
- April 19, 2021
- March 29, 2021
- March 1, 2021
- February 1, 2021
- December 14, 2021
- November 16, 2021
- October 12, 2020
- September 14, 2020
- August 19, 2020
- July 22, 2020
- June 24, 2020
- May 27, 2020
- April 20, 2020
- April 13, 2020
- March 16, 2020
- February 17, 2020
- December 4, 2019
- October 16, 2019
- September 17, 2019 – joint DEI and Education Working Group call
- July 12, 2019 – joint DEI and Education Working Group call