[FLR-list] Introductory courses on R/FLR

[Laurie]

WRT " 'first come first served' basis." If I send this email to ICCAT 
scientists and 30 people sign up immediately who are not from EU 
countries is that OK?

WRT the topics "Working with your own data" & 'Exploring data with FLR'. 
What type of data are these? Stock assessment, cpue, catch-at-size, 
catch-at-age, biological, ...

Plus it would be useful to take the opportunity to finalise a definitive 
set of resources for the flr-project on the areas covered.


Laurie


On 11/21/2011 01:01 PM, ernesto.jardim at jrc.ec.europa.eu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Please circulate this announcement.
>
> Best and thanks
>
> EJ
>
> JRC Course on "Introduction to R and FLR for fisheries".
>
> FISHREG Action of the IPSC's Maritime Affairs Unit of the EC Joint 
> Research Centre is organizing 2 courses on "Introduction to R and FLR 
> for fisheries". The target audience are students, fisheries biologists 
> and stock assessment scientists with none or very low knowledge of R. 
> The objective of the course is to promote numerical analysis of 
> fisheries data with R (http://r-project.org) and FLR 
> (http://flr-project.org), and level up the knowledge of the attendees, 
> setting a good background for follow up training initiatives on stock 
> assessment, e.g. ICES course on introduction to stock assessment.
>
> The courses will take place on the 10-12th of January and the 3rd-5th 
> of July, at the Palace Hotel (http://www.palacevarese.com/), Varese, 
> Italy.
>
> The courses don't have a registration fee, but the attendees will have 
> to cover their own travelling and accommodation expenses. The hotel 
> offers special fees of 75 Euros per night, please refer to the JRC 
> R/FLR course when booking. JRC covers the expenses related with the 
> organisation of the course (room, technical equipment, coffee breaks 
> and the transfer from Malpensa Airport to Varese). The course will 
> have a maximum of 15 attendees. A registration is mandatory and the 
> selection criteria will be on a 'first come first served' basis. To 
> register do the following:
>
> 1) Go to https://jrc-meeting-registration.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ and create 
> your user account (all data is protected)
> 3) Follow the link 
> http://jrc-meeting-registration.jrc.ec.europa.eu/Ispra/January2012/IntroductiontoRFLR/tabid/2374/Default.aspx 
>
> 4) Scroll down accept the Events Registration Statement and make the 
> registration.
>
> The course program is: day 01 morning - 'Introduction to R', day 01 
> afternoon - 'Working with R', day 02 morning - 'Writing functions', 
> day 02 afternoon - 'Working with your own data', day 03 morning - 
> 'Introduction to FLR', day 03 afternoon - 'Exploring data with FLR'. 
> The instructors are JRC researchers Ernesto Jardim, Iago Mosqueira and 
> Giacomo Chato Osio.
>
>