Meta-analysis course in Faro, Portugal

Joachim Claudet (CNRS) and Craig taught another version of their meta-analysis class (Introduction to Meta-analysis in Ecology) this summer.  We were hosted by CCMAR (Universidade do Algarve; Barbara H. Costa and Karim Erzini) and had a great group of students (see the class photo).  We usually teach the course with Fio Micheli (Stanford Univ.), but Read More …

MPA Assessment

A new book on Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) edited by Joachim Claudet is now available from Cambridge University Press. In chapter 7 of this book, we explore the evaluation of MPAs using different impact assessment designs (Control-Impact, Before-After-Control-Impact, and Before-After-Control-Impact-Paired-Series) as well as the possibility of covarying effects of biogenic habitat and fish populations in affecting estimates of Read More …

Ocean Bridges

Our Ocean Bridges program (funded by the French-American Cultural Exchange’s Partnership University Fund) has been a very successful collaboration between UF (Craig Osenberg’s and Gustav Paulay’s labs) and CRIOBE/University of Perpignan (Suzie Mills’, Serge Planes’, and Rene Galzin’s labs).  In recent years, we worked on a symbiosis between coral and its crustacean inhabitants. Pocillopora is a common Read More …