Distance sampling is a survey technique widely used to estimate the density and abundance of marine mammal populations, and other taxa. The Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling are pleased to announce that we will be running 3 live online workshops this autumn on aspects of distance sampling. Registration is now open. The two most relevant to marine mammal scientists are: - Distance sampling when animals are missed at zero distance, 28 & 31 October 2022. In marine mammal surveys animals may be missed because they are below the water and so unavailable to visual observers, or because of difficult sighting conditions. (Analogous issues occur for other types of marine mammal survey, such as passive acoustic surveys.) We will teach methods for dealing with these situations, and practical software tools. - Practical design and simulation to optimise distance sampling surveys, 1, 2 & 4 November 2022. Good survey design is critical to get the most out of marine mammal distance sampling surveys, which typically involve high field costs. Simulation is an inexpensive way to investigate design alternatives and optimize at the planning stage. We will demonstrate available free tools for this. For more details, and to register, go to https://workshops.distancesampling.org We are offering one free place on each workshop with the goal of to widening participation to scientists from countries with fewer resources and groups traditionally under-represented in wildlife science. More details are at http://workshops.distancesampling.org/widening-participation and the closing date for applications for the widening participation scholarships is September 5th. For those with wider interests in ecology, our third workshop is on camera trap distance sampling, a method seeing increasing use in terrestrial situations where remotely-operated cameras offer a practical solution to surveying in hard-to-reach areas with relatively low densities of animals. That workshop is relatively soon, 19-23 September and further details are at the above web site. In addition to the above, we are planning another of our highly successful introductory distance sampling workshops, likely in November. More details will be posted in due course. Best wishes to all, Len Thomas -- I am a member of the University and College Union and am currently participating in industrial action to improve UK higher education staff pension, pay, equality and working conditions. For more information, please see https://www.ucu.org.uk/article/11896/Why-were-taking-action. -- Len Thomas (he/him) len.thomas@st-andrews.ac.uk lenthomas.org @len_thom Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling and School of Mathematics and Statistics The Observatory, University of St Andrews, Scotland KY16 9LZ Office: UK+1334-461801 Admin: UK+1334-461842 The University of St Andrews is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013532.