[OSGeo Africa] QGIS, statistics and Distance courses in Arusha, Tanzania, Nov-Dec 2013

[Howard Frederick]

The Tanzania Conservation Resource Centre <http://tzcrc.org/> will be
putting on a series of science skills workshops before and after the TAWIRI
Scientific Conference<http://www.tawiri.or.tz/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=26&Itemid=25>
 in late November & early December 2013. CRC courses are designed to give
you immediately-useful skills that you can walk away feeling confident with!

Courses include:

   - *Introduction to mapping with QGIS*: introduction to QGIS. Three day
   course, 28-30 Nov.
   - *Introduction to mapping and analysis with QGIS:* a more int-depth
   course, with the introduction + the elements of analysis. Five days, 9-13
   December.
   - Distance Sampling: a survey method increasingly widely used in wildlife
   studies, 25-30 Nov:
      - Introduction (3 days, suitable for field researchers who wish to
      collect data);
      - Analysis & survey design (3 days, suitable for those who wish to
      analyse and design surveys).
   - Introduction to statistics with R: another free, open-source
   application, R is the statistics package which has become the choice of
   many (if not most) academics and researchers. 5 day course, 9-13
   December.
   - Spatial analysis with R: for those with R skills, this 2-day course
   introduces students to analytical methods in R for mapping and spatial
   analysis.

Read about the courses and sign up:
http://www.tzcrc.org/wp/skills-workshops/
Courses cost $75 per day but some limited scholarship positions are
available. The CRC is supported mainly by its members and the local
community, and in part by the Reid Park Zoo (Tucson, AZ).
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