Abundance Estimates Meetings
Abundance Estimate Meeting Documents
Here you will find the meeting documents of past and upcoming meetings and workshops of the NAMMCO Abundance Estimates Working Group. Some of these documents require a password for access. Reports are found here.
8-10 October 2019, Tromsø, Norway
The Abundance Estimates Working Group (AEWG) will meet in Tromsø between 8-10 October 2019. The meeting is open to members of the NAMMCO Scientific Committee and invited experts.
Meeting documents (updated 01.10.2019)
01 – Draft Agenda (rev. 01.10.2019)
02 – Draft List of Participants
03 – Draft List of Documents (rev. 09.10.19)
Working and For Information Documents (only available to participants)
22-24 May 2018, Greenland Representation, Copenhagen, Denmark
Report of the Abundance Estimates Working Group
Meeting Documents
01rev Draft agenda (130518)
03rev Draft List of documents (220518)
Working and For Information Documents (limited to WG participants)
28-29 October 2017, Halifax, Canada
Objectives
1. To generate a set of North Atlantic wide abundance estimates for 2015/16 for those cetacean species for which sufficient data are available.
Species to include: minke whale, fin whale, humpback whale, pilot whale, sperm whale, whitebeaked dolphin, white-sided dolphin, common dolphin, bottlenose dolphin, harbour porpoise, beaked/bottlenose whales? others?
Estimates will be design-based, corrected for g(0) (if possible and if appropriate), and have appropriate measures of precision.
Outcomes: a complete set of estimates or, more likely, an incomplete set of estimates and an action plan to achieve a complete set in timely fashion.
2. To discuss modelling the spatial and temporal distribution and habitat use of cetaceans in the North Atlantic using data from 2015/16.
Discussions to include: the most important and available variables to inform modelling; the merits or otherwise of modelling the entire northern North Atlantic; the challenges of
combining multiple datasets from different projects/platforms/methodologies; logistics of making this happen (who, how funded, when, etc); other?
Outcomes: an action plan for moving forward.
Logistical information
Agenda and Provisional Schedule
Participants List (coming soon)
Distribution/abundance information for the Workshop
North Atlantic Abundance Estimates
Map of recently surveyed areas (coming soon)
NAMMCO Abundance Estimates Working Group Report Oct 2016
More reading…
Roberts et al 2016 Habitat-based cetacean density models for the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico