Please join us for this year's Lamberson Ecology Lecture with special guest speaker Dr. Andy Royle, Senior Scientist at the USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Maryland.

The evening presentation is titled, "The Study of Animal Populations by Capture-recapture: In the Midst of a Technological Revolution." The lecture begins at 6:00 p.m. in SciB 133. A brief reception will be held on first floor of Science prior to the lecture.

Capture-recapture has been the standard method for the study of animal populations for decades. In the classical application of these methods, individuals of a population were captured, uniquely marked, and subsequently recaptured or resighted. The resulting individual encounter history data permits estimation of population size and other demographic parameters.  In this lecture I will discuss how the application of CR methods has been profoundly affected by new technologies such as remote cameras, noninvasive genetic sampling, and bioacoustics. These allow the study of species which could not previously be studied effectively by capture-recapture. Several case studies (grizzly bears, American mink) will be discussed that exemplify the importance of these new technologies.

This talk is free and open to the public. We hope you can attend!