Workshops

Below are the in-person and virtual Workshops, Meetings, or Conferences EFI has held or are upcoming.

EFI is hosting the EFI Futures Outstanding Student Presentation Award which is given to promote, recognize, and reward an outstanding student presenter and provide valuable feedback to student presenters on their research and presentation skills. Find details about the award here.

EFI also hosts recorded and non-recorded Webinars. You can find information about the webinars on the Webinars page.

The Webinars page

August 4-7, 2025EFI 2026 Conference at the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Science, Toronto, Canada. This conference is hosted by the Canadian EFI Chapter.
May 19-22, 2025EFI 2025 Conference at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg Virginia hosted by the EFI Research Coordination Network and the Virginia Tech Center for Ecosystem Forecasting. See a summary of the Conference here. Find the Conference workshop resources here.
June 11-13, 2024EFI 2024 Conference at the Finnish Meteorological Institute in Helsinki, Finland
April 10-12, 2024EFI Cyberinfrastructure Workshop co-hosted by EFI and NERACOOS at Portsmouth, New Hampshire. See this Qurato website https://projects.ecoforecast.org/efi-ci-workshop-2024/ with a summary of the workshop materials and recommendations.
July 24-28, 2023 Short Course hosted by the Canadian EFI Chapter: Forecasting for Decision-Making: An Epidemiological & Ecological Perspective. The playlist of the lectures is available on the EFI YouTube channel here and the exercises and case study materials are on GitHub here.
June 21-23, 2023EFI RCN Unconference 2023 at the NEON Headquarters in Boulder, Colorado
June 27-July 1, 2022 Short Course: Ecological Forecasting Initiative 2022
May 23-25, 2022Ecological Forecasting Initiative 2022 Meeting
Jun 28-29, 2021EFI-RCN Empowering the Development of the Next Generation of Educational Materials for Forecasting 
Jun 14-15, 2021EFI Student Association Early Career Annual Meeting 
Jun 7, 2021EFI-RCN Inclusive Pedagogy Workshop
Jun 2020Summer Course: Ecological Forecasting Initiative 2020 
May 2020EFI-RCN 2020 Virtual Workshop
May 2020Graduate Student Virtual Workshop
Oct 2019FILAMO Ecological Forecasting Training Workshop
Jul 2019Species on the Move Training Workshop
Jul 2019Summer Course: Near-term Ecological Forecasting Initiative
May 2019USGS Ecological Forecasting Meeting
May 2019Ecological Forecasting Initiative 2019 
Apr 2019NEON/NCAR Joint Workshop – Predicting Life in the Earth System
Jul 2018Summer Course: Near-term Ecological Forecasting Initiative
Feb 2018NSF OISE Workshop: Ecological Knowledge and Prediction 
Jan 2016NEON Workshop: Operationalizing Ecological Forecasting