Workshop announcement:
Learning to effectively and efficiently use DARWIN
The DARWIN Research Group
at Eckerd
College
announces a workshop/tutorial
“Learning to effectively and efficiently use
DARWIN,” to be
held Saturday, October 10, prior to the 18th Biennial
Conference on
Marine Mammals, in Quebec City, QC, Canada.
Workshop participants
will learn to install and use DARWIN,
a freely available photo-identification software package, to create a
catalog of dorsal fins images
and then compare images of newly sighted individuals against the
catalog. We
will also introduce the use of various software features that
facilitate the
sharing of data between or within research groups and enable the output
of
sighting data for input to other software packages.
As a part
of this workshop, copies of the current DARWIN
software will be distributed and installed on the laptop computer of
each
participant. The hands-on workshop will
provide step-by-step instruction on the most important features of the
software, and pointing out various tips and tricks to get the best
performance
from it. There will be time at the end
of the workshop when participants can experiment with what they have
learned
and have an opportunity to have questions answered, as they arise.
We
anticipate that this workshop will be useful to researchers interested
in
training others or in using the software themselves to facilitate the
photo-identification process.
For more information about the software:
http://darwin.eckerd.edu
To register for the workshop:
http://www.marinemammalogy.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=918&Itemid=215
The cost of the workshop is $30 (USD).
Please feel free to email questions to
darwin@eckerd.edu
Kelly Debure and John Stewman