Education

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
Alyssa Wilson’s overview of the Education and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Working Group’s activities for the EFI 2022 Conference held May 23-25, 2022.

Notes from Working Group Calls
Chair: Jason McLachlan (University of Notre Dame)

  1. February 9, 2023
  2. January 12, 2023
  3. December 5, 2022
  4. November 7, 2022
  5. October 10, 2022
  6. September 12, 2022
  7. August 10, 2022
  8. July 13, 2022
  9. June 15, 2022
  10. May 4, 2022
  11. April 6, 2022
  12. March 9, 2022
  13. February 9, 2022
  14. January 12, 2022
  15. November 18, 2021
  16. October 14, 2021
  17. September 16, 2021
  18. August 18, 2021
  19. July 14, 2021
  20. June 16, 2021
  21. May 10, 2021
  22. April 19, 2021
  23. March 29, 2021
  24. March 1, 2021
  25. February 1, 2021
  26. December 14, 2021
  27. November 16, 2021
  28. October 12, 2020
  29. September 14, 2020
  30. August 19, 2020
  31. July 22, 2020
  32. June 24, 2020
  33. May 27, 2020
  34. April 20, 2020
  35. April 13, 2020
  36. March 16, 2020
  37. February 17, 2020
  38. December 4, 2019
  39. October 16, 2019
  40. September 17, 2019 – joint DEI and Education Working Group call
  41. July 12, 2019 – joint DEI and Education Working Group call