(See Wiki for a discussion board listing research topics)
Having met in Woods Hole (USA) in 2017, we may have the 2018 meeting in Southern Europe, to keep a balance between east and west, north and south :)
If we aim for the autumn, the NOAA fiscal year means September is good, and the ICES ASC (24-27 Sep) means late September may not be a good time for the Methods WG meeting.
Can we meet in the first or second week of September, 3-7 Sep or 10-14 Sep? Please indicate and comment in the Doodle poll above.
(13 Nov 2017)
Please join me in an Adobe Connect Meeting.
Meeting Name: ICES Methods Group Summary: ICES Methods Group meeting Monday - Friday Invited By: NEC.B Connect (nec.b.connect@noaa.gov) When: 11/13/2017 9:00 AM - 6:30 PM Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Conference Number(s): (877) 653-6612 (toll free) +1 517 600 4840 (toll; for international callers) Participant Code: 8116908
To join the meeting: https://noaast.adobeconnect.com/icesmethods/
(9 Nov 2017, updated 11 Nov)
Welcome to Woods Hole! The meeting will be held in the Stephen H. Clark conference room located in the Aquarium building (see https://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/nefsc/woodshole/directions.html). The meeting hours will be 9-5 from Monday to Thursday and 9-4 on Friday.
The first day to arrive, please check in at the front desk of the Fisheries Main Building. You will only need to check in once for the week. If you drive, you'll be given a parking pass to put in your car. Parking is quite limited at the lab, so please car pool if at all possible. There are bike racks in front of the Aquarium if you decide to bike.
Door code, wireless, and lunch information will be provided at the meeting. Conference line and webex information for remote participants will be posted separately.
If you have any questions, please contact Chris Legault (chris.legault@noaa.gov). Non-US citizens, please see the post regarding required information - thank you.
(3 Nov 2017)
The US government has rules regarding foreign national guests participating in workshops that NOAA hosts. Please don't shoot the messenger, but Chris Legault will need the following information for all non-US citizens participating in the ICES Methods WG meeting November 13-17.
Could you please send the information to Chris either via email or by fax (508-495-2393). If you send a fax, please send an email letting him know you sent it so he can easily confirm its receipt.
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Name (First, Middle, Last) as written on passport
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Your affiliation (name of your company, academic institution, government, or nonprofit org)
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Gender
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Date of birth (mo, day, year)
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Country of birth
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Country of citizenship
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Country of current residence
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Country of permanent residence (home country)
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Dual Citizenship? (If yes, need info regarding both countries)
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Passport number
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Country of passport
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Phone number
Sorry for the bureaucratic hassle. Please ask if you have any questions.
(3 Nov 2017)
A few places people usually stay are:
There are also a number of Bed & Breakfasts.
(21 Oct 2017)
Chris Legault recommends taking the Peter Pan Bus to get from the airport (Boston Logan) to Woods Hole. The bus departs the airport every two hours, the last one at 19:20. The journey takes around 2.5 hours:
Boston Woods
Logan Hole
09:20 11:45
11:20 13:45
13:20 15:45
15:20 17:45
17:20 19:45
19:20 21:45
See page 20 in https://peterpanbus.com/wp-content/uploads/Peter-Pan-Timetable-9-27-2017.pdf#page=20 for details.
(18 Oct 2017)
Just a quick update on the upcoming ICES Methods working group, meeting in Woods Hole 13-17 November.
At the meeting, we will identify paper-size topics that are well suited to analyze and write as teams. When we decide during the meeting which topics will be pursued by the Methods working group, we will consider things like:
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Is this topic important for many stock assessment scientists?
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Is there another working group already working on this topic?
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How can this be structured into the format of a medium-size journal paper?
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What kind of work is required, and how much work?
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Do we have a suitable number of participants that would like to analyze and write this together?
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Who would like to lead this group and what will the role of coauthors be?
So I'm hoping that we will discuss many potential topics during the meeting (and a bit before and after the meeting). Once we have selected the topics, we will move them to https://github.com/ices-eg/mgwg and follow the progress to manuscript submission.
Since many of you cannot make it to the meeting this year, we will make an effort to involve people in the discussion remotely. I will send another update in the next couple of weeks when we have an online wiki, to coordinate the discussion and decide on video conferencing times and format during the meeting. Until then, feel free to send me ideas that I can put on the initial wiki to get the discussion started.
Those of you who are coming to Woods Hole 13-17 November, please confirm with Chris Legault chris.legault@noaa.gov and me, so we can choose a suitable meeting room, get hotel recommendations, etc.
(19 Sep 2017)
Dear stock assessment experts,
The brand new ICES Methods Working Group will be meeting 13-17 November 2017 in Woods Hole, and you are invited to attend!
As the Chair of the new WG, my goal is to bring together the best stock assessment modellers from Europe, North America and elsewhere, to do good science and have fun together. As a group, we will decide for ourselves which research topics to pursue. The only message from the ICES leadership to the group is: aim high and publish your findings.
The objectives of the working group are:
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Develop and improve stock assessment models and techniques
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Leverage the international scope of the WG to analyze many models and datasets
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Publish multi-author papers related to stock assessment
The focus will mainly be on single-species models, diagnostics, forecasts, uncertainty, statistical techniques, innovations, etc.
Specific objectives of this first meeting of the new Methods WG are:
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Identify main research topics
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Form teams
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Formulate papers to publish
We will be especially interested in topics that bring together and compare a wide range of approaches, methods, and datasets.
I realize that 13-17 November is very close, and I apologize for the short notice. If you are interested but unable to attend this first meeting, do not despair: the Methods WG will meet annually and the 2018 meeting will be announced with proper notice. Furthermore, feel free to participate remotely by proposing research topics and shape the ideas that will continue to develop.
We can start some brainstorming in the weeks before the meeting, but at this point I want to invite you to participate in the ICES Methods WG. Feel free to forward the invitation to those you think might be interested. Registration is simple, just send me an email!
All the best,
Arni