It is now becoming a tradition for Babak Naimi and Miguel Araújo to hold the SDM course in November. 2023 will not be an exception and the course is now announced and opened for registration. Early bird tickets available on the first-come-first-served basis. To read more about the course, see here. . . . [ Read More ]
Interview in “El Español”
"¿Y cómo afecta la biodiversidad al cambio climático? En la biosfera terrestre hay casi tanto carbono como en la atmósfera, unas 750 gigatoneladas, pero en los océanos hay 28.100 gigatoneladas. La gestión de los flujos de carbono entre lo que está vivo y lo que está muerto y los stocks de carbono se hacen con los ciclos biológicos. Un cambio, una alteración de esos ciclos puede . . . [ Read More ]
2022 Edition of the SDM course
We are thrilled to announce the 8th edition of the “Species Distributions Modelling Course: Concepts, Methods, Applications, and Challenges” that Babak Naimi and I give regularly. The previous edition had a limited presencial participation owing to the pandemic COVID-19 and we inaugurated the online participation. While online participation is now maintained, we strongly encourage those that can . . . [ Read More ]
Lecture: Understanding species diversity
How are global diversity gradients formed? What are the main underlying driving mechanism? Can we tease them apart easily? These are some of the topics addressed in the lecture recorded on the 15th of June 2020 with the title "Understanding Species Diversity: Ecological and Evolutionary Approaches". The lecture was given in the context of the MSC in Palaeontology jointly put together by NOVA . . . [ Read More ]
Opening of the EU Green Week
The 19th of October witnessed the Opening of the European Green Week, this year under scientific curation by Miguel B. Araújo and taking place at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon. Despite the pandemic situation the event went well with a at least a good hundred of people present in the large auditorium of the Foundation and many more attending online. The . . . [ Read More ]
Climate change for journalists’ workshop: a success
Seven journalists from Norway met seven journalists from Portugal to exchange experience and discuss the science of climate change with environmental journalist Ricardo Garcia, and myself, and with extra inspiration and knowledge sharing by experts in specific domains of climate change modelling, oceans and climate change, fire and fire spread under climate change, climate change mitigation, and . . . [ Read More ]
2020 Edition of the SDM course
The 2020 edition will take place between the 26th of April and the 2nd of May in a mixed model: on site and online. Last minute tickets available from the course registration page. ---- We are thrilled to announce the 7th edition of the “Species Distributions Modelling Course: Concepts, Methods, Applications, and Challenges” that Babak Naimi and I give every year. This is a 7 . . . [ Read More ]
Workshop: Climate Change for Journalists
Happy to have accepted the challenge by Ricardo Garcia to co-organise this workshop for journalists. It is important that journalists acquire the competencies to communicate complex issues, like climate change, with objectivity. Thrilled that the idea was well received by EEA Grants Portugal. It will take place in February 2020 and be opened to journalists based in Portugal and Norway. The . . . [ Read More ]
2019 Edition of the SDM course
We are thrilled to announce the 6th edition of the "Species Distributions Modelling Course: Concepts, Methods, Applications, and Challenges" that Babak Naimi and I give every year. This is a 7 days course for graduate students, researchers and professional. It introduces the fundamental concepts underpinning species distribution models, or ecological niche models (ENM), describing . . . [ Read More ]
2018 Species Distributions Course
SDM model for the Caribbean spiny pocket mouse Source: Radosavljevic, A. and R. P. Anderson. 2014. J. Biogeogr 41:629-643 We are organising the 5th edition of the course “Species distributions models: concepts, methods, applications, and challenges”, which introduces the fundamental concepts underpinning ecological niche models (ENM), describing some of the most prominent methods currently in . . . [ Read More ]