<div dir="ltr"><span style="line-height:22.265625px;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The Tanzania <a href="http://tzcrc.org/" target="_blank">Conservation Resource Centre</a> will be putting on a series of science skills <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">workshops</span> before <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">and</span> after the <a href="http://www.tawiri.or.tz/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=26&Itemid=25" target="_blank">TAWIRI Scientific Conference</a> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">in </span>late November & early December 2013. CRC courses are designed to give you immediately-useful skills that you can walk away feeling confident with!</span><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.265625px"><br></span></font></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.265625px">Courses include:</span><br>

</div><div><ul style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.265625px"><b>Introduction to <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);color:rgb(34,34,34)">mapping</span> with QGIS</b>: introduction to QGIS. Three day course, 28-30 Nov.</span></font></li>

<li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.265625px"><b>Introduction to mapping and analysis with QGIS:</b> a more int-depth course, with the introduction + the elements of analysis. Five days, 9-13 December.</span></font></li>

<li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.265625px">Distance Sampling: a <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);color:rgb(34,34,34)">survey</span> method increasingly widely used <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);color:rgb(34,34,34)">in</span> wildlife studies, </span></font><span style="line-height:22.265625px;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">25-30 Nov:</span></li>

<ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.265625px">Introduction (3 days, suitable for field researchers who wish to collect data);</span></font></li>

<li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.265625px">Analysis & <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);color:rgb(34,34,34)">survey</span> design (3 days, suitable for those who wish to analyse <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);color:rgb(34,34,34)">and</span> design surveys).</span></font></li>

</ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="line-height:22.265625px;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Introduction to <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">statistics</span> with R: another free, open-source application, R is the <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">statistics</span> package which has become the choice of many (if not most) academics <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">and</span> researchers. 5 day course, 9-13 December.</span><br>

</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="line-height:22.265625px;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Spatial analysis with R: for those with R skills, this 2-day course introduces students to analytical <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">methods</span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">in</span> R for <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">mapping</span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">and</span> spatial analysis.</span></li>

</ul><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.265625px">Read about the courses and sign up: </span></font><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.265625px"><a href="http://www.tzcrc.org/wp/skills-workshops/">http://www.tzcrc.org/wp/skills-workshops/</a></span></font></div>

<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.265625px">Courses cost $75 per day but some limited scholarship positions are available. The CRC is supported mainly by its members <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);color:rgb(34,34,34)">and</span> the local community, <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);color:rgb(34,34,34)">and</span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);color:rgb(34,34,34)">in</span> part by the Reid Park Zoo (Tucson, AZ).</span></font></div>

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