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Events > AD Model Builder and Stock Assessment Course at ICES (TCADSAM 2013)

AD Model Builder and Stock Assessment Course at ICES (TCADSAM 2013)

By admb-project-admin | March 22, 2016
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Event Start Date:
February 18, 2013
Event End Date:
February 22, 2013
Event Venue:
ICES Headquarters, Copenhagen, Denmark

Course taught by Anders Nielsen

Course Report
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TCADSAM_flyer.pdf

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  • Updated admb-project.org website

    August 15, 2016

    Event Start Date:August 15, 2016Event End Date:August 15, 2016Event Venue:The admb-project.org website has been changed to WordPress. There will be more planned changes with the main website after the move is done.

  • Developers Workshop 2016 at Seattle, Washington

    June 20, 2016 – June 24, 2016

    Hi all,

    The ADMB Foundation will be having the next Developers’ workshop.

    Agenda and workshop information will soon become available.

    If you are interested in attending, please let us know.

    Cheers,

    ADMB Foundation

  • Introductory TMB (and ADMB comparison) workshop at Seattle, Washington

    February 8, 2016 – February 12, 2016

    This introductory workshop will help familiarize participants with approaches to model development in TMB. Contrasts with ADMB will be covered, though participants are not required to be proficient in ADMB. Participants are assumed to have a background in applied statistics and statistical computing. Specifically, some experience fitting nonlinear models to data (in stock assessment or elsewhere) and basic programming skills.

  • ADMB-11.5 release is available

    December 11, 2015

    Hi all,
    The ADMB-11.5 release is now freely available.
    Read ‘CHANGES‘ for a list of bug fixes, improvements and new features.
    Read ‘INSTALL‘ procedures to install from source and binary distributions.
    Check ADMB-11.5 downloads for source and binary distributions.
    Email any feedback to ‘users@admb-project.org‘.

    Cheers,
    ADMB Core Team

  • ADMB-11.5pre release is available

    December 3, 2015

    Hi all,
    The ADMB-11.5pre release is now freely available for testing and feedback. Read ‘CHANGES‘ for a list of bug fixes, improvements and new features.  Read ‘INSTALL‘ procedures to install from source and binary distributions.  The production release should be available
    in the following week.

    Check admb-11.5pre downloads for source and binary distributions.  Email any feedback to ‘users@admb-project.org‘.

    Cheers,
    ADMB Core Team

  • ADMB/TMB training course

    November 2, 2015

    Model development in fish stock assessment:
    ADMB, TMB, and SAM

    Instructors: Anders Nielsen, Arni Magnusson
    See course webpage
    Application deadline: 14 September 2015 (may fill up sooner)

  • ADMB Usage Growing

    September 26, 2015

    Analysis of GitHub data by Arni Magnusson and Johnoel Ancheta shows some interesting trends in ADMB usage
    (See full description for details & stats)
    Quite a few Linux users prefer downloading prebuilt binaries (54 Ubuntu, 10 CentOS/Fedora) rather than building from sources,.
    The experimental Debian package has 11 downloads.
    The majority of Windows users who downloaded binaries are using the GCC compiler, but Visual C++ is quite common as well:
    Among binary downloads, the 32-bit versions of Windows and Mac are still alive and kicking in 2015. Here’s to good health and long life of 32-bit machines, both virtual and real ones:
    Overall, on all platforms, the download rate for ADMB 11.4 during the first 120 days was 7 downloads per day.

  • ADMB-IDE 11.2 released

    July 13, 2015

    ADMB-IDE 11.2 is available for 32 and 64 bit Windows:
    http://ftp.admb-project.org/admb-11.2/admb-ide-112-win32.exe
    http://ftp.admb-project.org/admb-11.2/admb-ide-112-win32.zip
    http://ftp.admb-project.org/admb-11.2/admb-ide-112-win64.exe
    http://ftp.admb-project.org/admb-11.2/admb-ide-112-win64.zip

    The main changes since ADMB-IDE 10.1 (LTS) are:

    • Updated components (ADMB 11.2, Emacs 24.4, GCC 4.9, GDB 7.8)
    • Safe compilation is now default (with new option -f for fast)
    • Supports contributed ADMB libraries (see ‘contrib’ directory)
    • Comes with additional Emacs packages (AUCTeX, ESS)
  • ADMB-11.4 released

    May 29, 2015

    Hi all,
    The ADMB-11.4 release is now freely available. Read ‘CHANGES‘ for a list of bug fixes, improvements and new features.  Read ‘INSTALL‘ procedures to install from source and binary distributions.

    This quick release fixes a problem reported by Steve Martell with building shared libraries for admb and random effects models.
    Follow the unix commands below to build a admb random
    effects shared library:
    examples/admb-re/orange$ admb -d orange
    Use -d option to build shared library
    Then follow the commands to use the shared library in R:

    > dyn.load(“orange.so”)

    > ret <- .C(“orange”, “”)

    > dyn.unload(“orange.so”)

    Check ADMB-11.4 downloads for source and binary distributions. Email any feedback to ‘users@admb-project.org‘.

    Cheers,
    ADMB Core Team

  • ADMB-11.3 released

    May 22, 2015

    Hi all,
    The ADMB-11.3 release is now freely available. Read ‘CHANGES‘ for a list of bug fixes, improvements and new features.  Read ‘INSTALL‘ procedures to install from source and binary distributions.

    Check ADMB-11.3 downloads for source and binary distributions.  Email any feedback to ‘users@admb-project.org‘.

    Cheers,
    ADMB Core Team

  • ADMB Users and Developers lists moved to Google Groups

    April 1, 2015

    Read http://lists.admb-project.org/pipermail/developers/2015-April/001131.html

  • Issue tracker (http://www.admb-project.org/redmine/) has been retired.

    January 15, 2015

    Read http://lists.admb-project.org/pipermail/users/2015-January/002779.html

  • ADMB-IDE 11.2 for 32 and 64 bit Windows

    January 13, 2015

    ADMB-IDE 11.2 is available for 32 and 64 bit Windows:

      http://ftp.admb-project.org/admb-11.2/admb-ide-112-win32.exe
      http://ftp.admb-project.org/admb-11.2/admb-ide-112-win32.zip
      http://ftp.admb-project.org/admb-11.2/admb-ide-112-win64.exe
      http://ftp.admb-project.org/admb-11.2/admb-ide-112-win64.zip

    The main changes since ADMB-IDE 10.1 (LTS) are:

    – Updated components (ADMB 11.2, Emacs 24.4, GCC 4.9, GDB 7.8)
    – Safe compilation is now default (with new option -f for fast)
    – Supports contributed ADMB libraries (see ‘contrib’ directory)
    – Comes with additional Emacs packages (AUCTeX, ESS)

  • ADMB source code repository moved to github

    January 12, 2015

    Hi all,
    We are pleased to announce that the ADMB source code repository has been moved to github.
    https://github.com/admb-project/admb/

    The subversion repositories are still available (read-only).
    http://www.admb-project.org/svn/

    Please contact users@admb-project.org for help or support.

    Cheers,
    ADMB Core Team

  • ADMB-11.2 is available

    December 23, 2014

    Hi all,
    The ADMB-11.2 release is now freely available. Read ‘CHANGES‘ for a list of bug fixes, improvements and new features.  Read ‘INSTALL‘ procedures to install from source and binary distributions.

    Check ADMB-11.2 downloads for source and binary distributions.  Email any feedback to ‘users@admb-project.org‘.

    Cheers,
    ADMB Core Team

  • ADMB-11.2pre is available

    December 9, 2014

    Hi all,
    The ADMB-11.2pre release is now freely available for testing. Read ‘CHANGES‘ for a list of bug fixes, improvements and new features.  Read ‘INSTALL‘ procedures to install from source and binary distributions.

    Check admb-11.2pre downloads for source and binary distributions.  Email any feedback to ‘users@admb-project.org‘.

    Cheers,
    ADMB Core Team

  • ADMB 5 Developers workshop report available

    December 4, 2014

    Hi all,
    A pre-release version ADMB-11prerelease is now freely available for testing.  Read
    the News.txt for a listing bug fixes, improvements and new features.  The
    final release of ADMB-11 is expected at end of the June 2012.

    Please download and test out the pre-releases.  Email any feedback to
    “users@admb-project.org“.

    Cheers,
    ADMB Core Team

  • ADMB2R is now available on the admb project site.

    October 30, 2014

    ADMB2R is now available on the admb project site.

  • ADMB Workshop at OSU at Hatfield Marine Science Center (OSU)

    September 27, 2014 – September 30, 2014

    An ADMB workshop was lead by Andre Punt at OSU as part of the University of Washington class “FISH 559: Numerical Computing for the Natural Resources”. Course material is available in the class website:

    http://courses.washington.edu/fish507/notes.html

  • ADMB Workshop at OSU

    September 27, 2014 – September 30, 2014

    An ADMB workshop was lead by Andre Punt at OSU as part of the University of Washington class “FISH 559: Numerical Computing for the Natural Resources”. Course material is available in the class website:

    http://courses.washington.edu/fish507/notes.html

  • Workshop at the International Statistical Ecology Conference, Montpellier (France)

    June 28, 2014 – June 30, 2014

    There’s an ADMB workshop scheduled for the end of June.

    See the program, see here

    http://isec2014.sciencesconf.org/conference/isec2014/ADMBWorkshop.pdf

    And for contact info of organizers, see here

    http://isec2014.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/15

  • ADMB sponsors SAFS Research Derby

    June 25, 2014 – June 27, 2014

    On June 25th-27th 2014, a research derby will happen at the University of Washington School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences. The research derby is an exercise in creativity and speed-research in which you can win prizes of both the material and honor varieties. For more information visit http://depts.washington.edu/safsdrby/

  • ADMB is Editor’s Choice

    April 16, 2014

    The ADMB paper (Fournier et al. 2012) has been listed by Optimization Methods and Software as Editor’s Choice.

    A handful of publications were selected to showcase the high quality of the journal. Congratulations to Dave Fournier and everyone who has contributed to the ADMB Project!

  • NEW: Installation guide for 32 or 64-bit MinGW (Windows)

    January 30, 2014

    A new installation manual for 32 and 64-bit MinGW (gcc compiler) on Windows has been posted. It addresses most of the issues users have and will make installation of MinGW and ADMB easier.
    Check it out!

  • Stock assessment course (Advanced) at Copenhagen, Denmark

    November 18, 2013 – November 22, 2013

    This is an advanced course in fisheries stock assessment modelling where we explore generic properties of stock assessment methods. The course includes uncertainty estimation of the relevant parameters estimated in stock assessments. It is aimed at scientists who have some foundation in the fundamentals of stock assessments. In the course we examine various assumptions as well as strength and weaknesses of different methods. The course will take you through the different steps that are part of any stock assessment

  • Introduction to ADMB at University of Iceland

    September 19, 2013

    An introductory ADMB workshop covering random effects, uncertainty, probability and likelihood, data input, and output formatting. Taught by Arni Magnusson.

  • ADMB wins Charles Broyden Prize!

    September 12, 2013

    The ADMB paper (Fournier et al. 2012) has been awarded the Charles Boyden Prize.

    The prize is awarded to the best paper published in Optimization Methods and Software each year, chosen by an international prize committee.

    Congratulations to Dave Fournier and everyone who has contributed to the ADMB Project!

    (The English mathematician Charles Broyden was the ‘B’ in the BFGS nonlinear optimization algorithm.)

  • ADMB featured extensively in World Conference on Stock Assessment Methods

    July 19, 2013

    The World Conference on Stock Assessment Methods (WCSAM) was held in Boston July 15-19, 2013. 220 participants from 23 countries registered for the conference. WCSAM provided a forum for presentations on the application of state-of-the-art and future of fisheries stock assessment methods. It considered single stock approaches for data rich and poor stocks, spatial and temporal change, and also multispecies and ecosystem based approaches.

    ADMB was used in more than half of all talks presented at WCSAM and in as much as 80% of the talks on Single Species Assessments. For more details see bellow.

    Session Talks that used ADMB Total of talks %
    Single Species Assessments 16 20 80%
    Assessing Ecosystem Dynamics and Structure 3 8 38%
    Spatial and temporal change 8 12 67%
    Data-poor approaches 4 19 21%
    All sessions 31 59 53%
  • ADMB Developers’ Workshop, Reykjavik

    July 3, 2013

    For more information see here.

  • ADMB-11.1 is available

    June 4, 2013

    Hi all,
    The ADMB-11.1 release is now freely available. Read ‘CHANGES.txt‘ for a list of bug fixes, improvements and new features.  Read ‘INSTALL.txt‘ procedures to install from source and binary distributions.

    Check downloads for source and binary distributions.  Email any feedback to ‘users@admb-project.org‘.

    Cheers,
    ADMB Core Team

  • ADMB-11.1pre is available

    June 4, 2013

    Hi all,
    A pre-release version ADMB-11.1pre is now freely available for testing. Read ‘CHANGES.txt’ for a list of bug fixes, improvements and new features. Read ‘INSTALL.txt’ procedures to install from source and binary distributions.

    Please download and test out the pre-releases. Email any feedback to
    ‘users@admb-project.org’.

    Cheers,
    ADMB Core Team

  • ADMB Developers’ Workshop, Seattle

    June 4, 2013 – June 7, 2013

    For more information see here.

  • ADMB Workshop at UBC at The University of British Columbia

    May 1, 2013

    Introductory ADMB workshop covering random effects, uncertainty, probability and likelihood, data input, and output formatting.

  • AD Model Builder and Stock Assessment Course at ICES (TCADSAM 2013) at ICES Headquarters, Copenhagen, Denmark

    February 18, 2013 – February 22, 2013

    This will be an advanced course in fisheries stock assessment modelling. The course will guide the participants through families of stock assessment models, explaining the key differences between deterministic procedures, stochastic models, Bayesian models, and state-space models. The goal is to enable participants to:
    − Build assessment models in AD Model Builder (ADMB)
    − Modify existing ADMB models

  • ADMB and Stock Assessment Course

    January 16, 2013

    See course announcement for details.

    More information on other courses here.

  • Stock assessment course, November 2013

    January 16, 2013

    This is an advanced course in fisheries stock assessment modelling where we explore generic properties of stock assessment methods. The course includes uncertainty estimation of the relevant parameters estimated in stock assessments. It is aimed at scientists who have some foundation in the fundamentals of stock assessments.

    The five-day course is organized as a series of sessions with alternating focus on theoretical concepts and hands-on work on examples. These example sessions will be completed in different software environments such as R and ADMB (see flr-project.org and admb-project.org)

    More information on the course here.

  • Workshop Report Available

    January 11, 2013

    Final report from March 2012 Developer Workshop is available here

  • ADMB Training Videos On-line

    January 9, 2013

    The Quantitative Fisheries Center (QFC) at Michigan State University has
    released a set of videos aimed at new users of AD Model Builder. The videos were developed with funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore
    Foundation under a contract with the ADMB foundation. Each video
    and associated ADMB template and data files are contained within a
    folder “Current_ADMB_Video_Release” accessible from the link.  The
    entire set of videos and associated files is also accessible in a single
    zip file but be advised the zip file size is large.  If you are
    interested in the videos we recommend first reading “ADMB Videos –
    Important Info and Annotated File List.pdf” available at the same
    location as the videos.  The QFC url:
    http://qfc.fw.msu.edu/  
    provides a research, outreach/service and teaching program aimed at
    building capacity within fishery management agencies in quantitative
    methods.   Areas of emphasis include Great Lakes fisheries and
    development of an online instruction program in quantitative
    fisheries.

  • Bug Fixes for ADMB 11.0

    September 6, 2012

    After user complaints about speed and accuracy in ADMB 11.0, source code relating to the beta and gamma distributions, LU decomposition, and solve(…) has been reverted to the code used in ADMB 9.0. The updated code is available for testing on the ADMB Subversion server trunk.

    The function reference guide (API or dox) is under construction. Help is welcome.

  • ADMB-11 is available

    July 6, 2012

    Hi all,

    ADMB-11 is available for downloads.

    For list of changes, please read the NEWS.txt.

    For installation and building instructions, please read README.txt.

    For help please, please email “users@admb-project.org”.

    Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release.

    Cheers,

    ADMB Core Team

  • International Statistical Ecology Conference 2012

    July 3, 2012 – July 6, 2012

    This conference will convene experts from around the world to present
    and discuss issues of interest to ecological statisticians and
    biologists. There will be a pre-conference workshop on AD-Model Builder. For details please visit the ISEC2012 website.

  • ISEC 2012 at Finse Alpine Research Center, Sundvollen, Norway

    June 30, 2012 – July 1, 2012

    By Mark Maunder, Hans Skaug and Anders Nielsen
    Participant fee: 1600 NOK, including full board accommodation at Finse Alpine Research Center. Limited to 25 participants.

    This course targets quantitative ecologists, and students who need to handle nonlinear statistical models (both frequentist and Bayesian). AD Model Builder (admb-project.org) is highly efficient, freely available software for implementing non-linear statistical models.

    This workshop may be combined with the other workshop at Finse or one of the two workshops at Sundvollen.

  • ADMB-11prerelease is available

    June 22, 2012

    Hi all,
    A pre-release version ADMB-11prerelease is now freely available for testing.  Read
    the News.txt for a listing bug fixes, improvements and new features.  The
    final release of ADMB-11 is expected at end of the June 2012.

    Please download and test out the pre-releases.  Email any feedback to
    “users@admb-project.org“.

    Cheers,
    ADMB Core Team

  • ADMB course in Chile (In Spanish) at Universidad de Concepción (UdeC), Chile

    March 1, 2012

    This course will aim to explore the main quantitative methods that have been employed by biologists and fisheries for assessing the state of exploitation of fisheries resources, with emphasis on application through advanced computational methods. Specifically, the course will focus on the description and use of the AD Model Builder (ADMB) programming package.

  • Second ADMB Developers’ Workshop

    November 4, 2011

    See announcement.

  • New ADMB Paper Available

    October 27, 2011

    A new paper describing ADMB and how ADMB uses automatic differentiation is now available for download a http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10556788.2011.597854

  • ADMB 10.1 released

    September 12, 2011

    Hi all,
    ADMB 10.1 has been released.
    This is mostly a bug fix release.  Please read the README.txt filefor list of changes and procedures to build the libraries from source.

    Source distribution is available from
    http://www.admb-project.org/downloads

    Updated ADMB documentation manuals are available from
    http://www.admb-project.org/documentation/manuals

    For questions or help please email “users at admb-project.org”. Thanks to everyone who had contributed and helped with the project.

    Cheers,
    Johnoel

  • ADMB Developers’ Workshop Completed

    July 19, 2011

    The first-ever ADMB developers workshop was a resounding success. Participants were able download, modify, and upload the ADMB code from the subversion repository. Eleven new developers were authorized to commit code to the repository, and over 25 revisions to the source code were committed. Several improvements were made to the code, test versions of the code, and infrastructure. These improvements included documentation, a PRIORS_SECTION, and a Redmine website for tracking issues. The source code documentation was expanded to be more inclusive and other improvements were added to make the information more accessible to beginning users.

    The workshop report can be found on the Community tag.

    A second developers workshop was tentatively scheduled for February 2012 in Honolulu.

  • New ADMB Release Planned for December

    July 1, 2011

    The ADMB development team is planning a new release of the complete
    ADMB source code in December 2010. A preliminary version of the new
    release is now ready for testing by users. The source code, along with
    build procedures for linux/gcc and windows/vcc, is available at
    http://admb-project.googlecode.com/files/admb-10.0Beta.zip. Build
    procedures for other compilers are in the works.

    Some of the changes in the new version include:
    –  Several improved algorithms, including a new random number generator
    –  Matrix exponential
    –  Hybrid MCMC
    –  Sparse Hessian
    –  More examples
    –  Support for Intel C++ compiler
    –  Added configure script for linux
    –  Various bug fixes and improvements
    –  More complete API documentatiom

    You can help out by testing this new code on your applications.

  • ADMB anonymous source version control available

    April 11, 2011

    Hi all,
    The primary ADMB version control has been moved!  It is now located at
    http://www.admb-project.org/svn/

    To checkout the trunk, use the command below to anonymously checkout a read-only copy
    svn checkout http://www.admb-project.org/svn/trunk admb-trunk-read-only

    For Tortoise svn users, use the url above to checkout code.

    After checking out a copy, read the README.txt in the trunk for procedures to build ADMB.

    The previous version control (shibi) is now read-only accessible.  The last revision is 1006.  The new primary version control was imported only with the trunk at 1006.  Past versions will require accessing the previous version control.

    For those that need write access, please email users@admb-project.org to request an account.  The Core ADMB developer’s accounts are being transferred to the new version control.  To checkout code with write access use:

    svn checkout svn+ssh://www.admb-project.org/trunk admb-trunk

    The configure script will need to be build using the commands below
    >cd admb-trunk
    >make –directory=scripts/configure
    >./configure
    >make
    >make install
    For help or questions, please email users@admb-project.org.
    Lastly, I would like to thank Arni Magnusson and Ben Bolker for their persistence.
    Yes, you can stop hitting me with the hammer now…
    Thank you so much for your patience.

    Cheers,
    Johnoel

  • ADMB Developers’ Workshop at National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis in Santa Barbara, California

    March 29, 2011

    The first ever ADMB Developers’ Workshop will be June 20 – 23, 2011 at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis in Santa Barbara, California. The goal of the workshop is to encourage potential ADMB code developers to participate in future code development and to help ensure the long-term sustainability of the ADMB software.

    Space will be limited to about 25 participants, and travel funding is more severely limited. Interested prospective participants should contact developers@admb-project.org before May 15, 2011

  • ADMB course at ICES (TCADSAM 2011) at ICES Headquarters, Copenhagen

    February 21, 2011 – February 25, 2011

    This will be an advanced course in fisheries stock assessment modelling, but rather than running the audience through a number of predefined models and have them memorize check lists for how to use them,
    this course will enable participants to:
    − Build assessment models in AD Model Builder (ADMB)
    − Modify existing ADMB models

  • Good News for Apple Users

    July 9, 2010

    Bill Clark and Johnoel Ancheta recently completed a port of AD Model Builder to Mac OS. ADMB versions for GCC 4.0 and GCC 4.2 are now available for testing. You can download them from the Downloads tab ADMB Downloads

  • Frequently Asked Questions

    July 7, 2010

    Ian Taylor has produced a very useful set of FAQ for new and experienced ADMB users. Check it out.

  • ADMB workshop at International Statistical Ecology Conference at University of Kent at Canterbury, UK

    July 5, 2010

    Introductory ADMB workshop covering random effects, uncertainty, probability and likelihood, data input, and output formatting.

  • ADMB-IDE is available

    June 28, 2010

    To all ADMB users,

    An integrated development environment for ADMB (ADMB-IDE) is now available.  It utilizes the Emacs editor with a simplified user interface. Users
    can set everything up with an installer (Windows), or configure the
    components by hand (Windows, Linux, Mac OS). See the manual for details.

    More information and manuals can be found on ADMB-IDE page.

    For some time, users have requested an IDE for ADMB to aid in developing models.  Much thanks to Arni Magnusson for taking charge in developing this most requested feature.  Please try ADMB-IDE for developing your models.

    If there are questions or issues, please email users@admb-project.org for support and help.

    Enjoy,

    ADMB Core Team

     

  • ADMB for Intel MacOS Snow Leopard

    June 18, 2010

    Download at the ADMB downloads page.

  • October Newsletter is available

    June 18, 2010

    Read the ADMB October Newsletter. In this issue, Dave Fournier receives the American Fisheries Society’s Ricker award.

    Also, developing “Custom Libraries for use in ADMB” by Steve Martell.

     

    Enjoy.

  • ADMB Project General Meeting

    June 11, 2010

    Seventeen people attend the March 2010 ADMB Project general meeting in La Jolla. Participants discussed progress to date and established priority activities for the next two years. Further information as well as the meeting report can be found in under the Community tab.

  • ADMB Programmer Position Available

    June 9, 2010

    NOAA Fisheries is seeking a scientific programmer to work in a diverse, creative work environment populated by people with backgrounds from a variety of disciplines including statistics, quantitative ecology, applied mathematics, ecosystem modeling, and fishery science. The successful applicant will represent NOAA Fisheries in communications with the Automatic Differentiation Model Builder (ADMB) Foundation; teach courses in C++, ADMB and other programming languages; and collaborate with researchers to develop new natural resource models and translate them into efficient, well-documented code.Programming experience with C++ is essential and experience with ADMB is highly desirable. Experience in other high level languages (e.g., Visual Basic, Fortran, R) and mathematical modeling is also desirable.

    The position is located in Miami, Florida. The position will require several trips per year to diverse locations within the United States, and occasionally to international venues.

    Application under this announcement requires the applicant to apply through USAJOBS at http://www.usajobs.opm.gov/. Job Announcement Number:  NMFS-SEFSC-2010-0024
    Statistician ( Scientific Programmer),ZP-1530-III

    Applicants will be able to apply online until 24:00 (midnight) Eastern Time on June 21

  • The new ADMB project website

    May 27, 2010

    The ADMB project main website at http://www.admb-project.org/ has a new and nicer eye candy look.  We would like to thank Fusion Creative for designing the cool logo and the graphics.  The ADMB logo just rocks.  I can’t wait to put it on a baseball hat.  Also, we would like to thank the folks at SOEST Publications for designing and creating the layout.  The website uses Plone which is a open source content management system.  Finally, kudos to all the ADMB users who offered input into the redesign.

    If there are any question or comments, please email users@admb-project.org.

    Happy Holidays,

    The ADMB Core Developers

  • AD Model Builder Training Course

    March 31, 2010

    For more information, check the announcement notice.

  • ADMB2R is available

    November 9, 2009

    ADMB2R is now available on the admb project site.

  • Deadline extended for ADMB programer position.

    November 3, 2009

    The ADMB Project is recruiting a programmer at the University of Hawaii to help out with the ADMB source code.Check the ADMB job description for details. Apply directly to RCUH before November 16.

  • Dave Fournier received the American Fisheries Society’s Ricker award

    October 26, 2009

    Dave Fournier received the American Fisheries Society’s Ricker award. This is a prestigious award and provides Dave recognition not only for the great contribution AD Model Builder has made to fisheries stock assessment, but also Dave’s contribution to fisheries stock assessment methodology, such as being the pioneer of integrated analysis (see Fournier and Archibald 1982).The ADMB Foundation initiated and coordinated the nomination of Dave for this award. Prof. Ray Hilborn, a previous recipient of the award, volunteered to be the nominator. Several of you provided letters of support and we thank you for your efforts.

    Dave was first nominated in 2008 and was the runner up for the award.    This meant that his nomination would be carried over to 2009. Since the 2008 nomination, the Moore Foundation grant was awarded, and provided additional support for Dave’s nomination.

    See full description for details

  • ADMB C/C++ programmer position in Honolulu

    October 23, 2009

    The ADMB Project is recruiting a programmer at the University of Hawaii to help out with the ADMB source code.Check the ADMB job description for details. Apply directly to RCUH before November 2.

  • ADMB Courses at Michigan State University

    August 29, 2009

    The Quantitative Fisheries Center at Michigan State University will be teaching two short courses on the use of AD Model Builder in East Lansing, Michigan in August.  The first course “AD Model Builder Basics” will be held August 18 and 19, 2009 and is intended for those who have never used the software or those needing a refresher in software basics.  The second course “AD Model Builder advanced Fishery  Applications” will be held August 20 and 21, 2009 and will cover more advanced applications will cover more advanced topics (e.g., assessing uncertainty in model results; instruction on writing functions;  alternative model parameterization.  Instructors for the short courses are Drs. Jim Bence, Brian Irwin, and Travis Brenden. For additional information, including enrollment cost, please contact Travis Brenden at brenden@msu.edu.

  • ADMB Introductory Workshop at Copenhagen, Denmark

    August 17, 2009 – August 18, 2009

    A series of introductory ADMB presentations covering installation, syntax, compilation, automatic differentiation, estimating/expressing uncertainty, and a primer on ADMB.

  • ADMB 9.0.363 is available

    August 10, 2009

    The current version of ADMB is now 9.0.363.  It was released on Aug 10, 2009.  The
    major changes now include libraries on OpenSolaris for SunStudio and Gnu gcc
    C++ compilers.  Other changes include various fixes to the libraries.  Please download
    the current version from http://admb-project.org/downloads , then read the installation
    procedures from http://admb-project.org/documentation .  If there are any problems, suggestions or comments, please email users@admb-project.org .

  • AZTI Tecnalia, San Sebastian at AZTI Tecnalia, San Sebastian

    July 6, 2009 – July 7, 2009

    A series of presentations on ADMB topics including: estimating/expressing uncertainty, maximum likelihood estimations, model parameters, data input and reporting, and MCMC.

  • ADMB Summer Workshops in Europe

    May 20, 2009

    The ADMB Foundation will present two
    training workshops in Europe this summer to introduce new users to
    ADModel Builder. The first workshop will be hosted by AZTI-Tecnalia,
    in San Sebastian, July 6-7; contact Paul de Bruyn <pdebruyn@azti.es>. The
    second workshop will be hosted by DTU Aqua, in Copenhagen, August
    17-18; contact Anders Nielsen <an@aqua.dtu.dk>.

  • ADMB Workshop at ESA Annual Meeting

    April 15, 2009

    A one-day training workshop, AD Model Builder: a Free Tool for Parameter Estimation of Complex Nonlinear Statistical Models, will be hosted by the 94th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Sunday, August 2, 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. Registration opens the week of April 20. For more information see the ESA website

  • ADMB Dowload Count Exceeds 2000

    March 23, 2009
    The ADMB libraries have been downloaded more than 2000 times since they were posted in December 2008. The most popular download has consistently been the ADMB 9.0 windows 32-bit binaries for MinGW gcc-3.4.5. The most popular download for linux has been the 32-bit librariesfor gcc 4.10. For details see the ADMB project download page.

     

    ADMB Project managers expect to provide new automated Windows installers soon, and a beta version of the source code will also be available in the next month.

  • PI Day

    March 14, 2009
    Pi Day is celebrated by math enthusiasts around the world on March 14th.
  • ADMB Workshop at NCEAS, Santa Barbara at NCEAS, Santa Barbara

    March 9, 2009 – March 10, 2009

    A series of presentations on ADMB, data input, formatting output data, and descriptions of methods to estimate uncertainty using ADMB including standard deviations, profile likelihood and Bayesian MCMC

  • ADMB Workshop

    March 9, 2009 – March 10, 2009

    Dr. Stephanie Hampton, Deputy Director of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), announced plans to host a workshop on ADMB applications to ecology. The workshop will take place March 9 and 10 at NCEAS in Santa Barbara. Several seats are available in the March workshop, and the workshop itself is free of cost, but we can not pay your travel expenses. We can help to secure lodging within walking distance that is usually below standard rates for Santa Barbara (e.g., $120/night or less). If you are interested in attending, please send a response to Dr. Hampton (hampton@nceas.ucsb.edu) by 16 Feb 2009. Please include a CV and a short statement about why you would like to attend – in the event that we receive more interest than we can accommodate, we will select participants who represent a breadth of disciplines.
    See full description for details.

  • ADMB Article in Santa Barbara Independent

    January 22, 2009
    Several principals in the ADMB Project were interviewed by Shannon Switzer from the Santa Barabara Independent. Switzer produced an informative article about ADMB and the future of the project entitled “Let Them See Data”.

  • ADMB Foundation Launches Newsletter

    January 22, 2009
    The inaugural edition of the ADMB Foundation Newsletter is now available for download. The newsletter will be published quaterly and presents current news about the ADMB Project plus tips  and other useful information for ADMB users. An on-line subscription form is availabl.

  • ADMB Available for Public Download

    December 8, 2008

    Tuesday, December 9, 2008

    ADMB-based computer
    models are used globally to monitor populations of many endangered
    and commercially valuable species, to develop place-based resource
    management policies, and to reconstruct movements of animals tracked
    with electronic tags. ADMB- based stock assessments are critical to
    the management of commercially important fisheries stocks worth
    billions of dollars as well as ecologically sensitive species, in the
    United States and internationally. Every NOAA Fisheries Science
    Center uses the ADMB software.

    In 2007, scientists
    from the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa Pelagic Fisheries Research
    Program and the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, in
    consultation with scientists from NOAA Fisheries, created the
    non-profit ADMB Foundation with the goal of increasing the number of
    ADMB users by making the software free and open source.

    During its first year
    of operation, the UH Pelagic Fisheries Research Program provided a
    home and logistical support for the Foundation. In partnership with
    NOAA Fisheries and the National Center for Ecological Analysis and
    Synthesis (NCEAS), the Foundation drafted a proposal to the Gordon
    and Betty Moore Foundation, to acquire the copyright to the ADMB
    software suite, in order to make it broadly and freely available to
    the research community. A generous grant from the Moore Foundation
    to NCEAS enabled an agreement with Otter Research Ltd. to open the
    ADMB source.

    ADMB
    has proven to be an essential tool for a wide range of statistical
    analysis, especially in fisheries stock assessments. With its recent
    emergence as free software, it is likely that ADMB will find
    application to a growing number of challenges in ecological modeling.

    Many
    top fisheries scientists have testified to the importance of ADMB for
    creating sound stock and management models:

    “Thanks
    to ADMB, it is no longer necessary to omit or transform data because
    they do not meet the arbitrary assumptions of some ‛canned’
    software package. Instead, it is possible to include a diversity of
    data in statistical models. This power has revolutionized modeling of
    natural resources.”
    Dr.
    John Sibert, Manager, Pelagic Fisheries Research Program, University
    of Hawaii.

    “It is no
    exaggeration to say that the scientific assessment of many fisheries
    would grind to a halt without ADMB. There are hundreds of other
    applications for this tool that will undoubtedly benefit greatly by
    making it a public piece of software.”

    Professor Ray Hilborn, School of Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences,
    University of Washington.

    “ADMB has
    empowered an entire generation of fishery stock assessment
    scientists.”

    Dr. Richard Methot, Senior Scientist for Assessments, NOAA Fisheries.

    “Without ADMB,
    the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission would be unable to
    conduct the sophisticated [tuna stock] assessments that it currently
    does.”

    Dr. Mark Maunder, a Senior Scientist at the Inter-American Tropical
    Tuna Commission.

    Creation of the public
    download web site is only the first step in making all aspects of
    ADMB publicly available. Over the next year, a team of software
    developers will improve documentation of the computer code with the
    goal of making ADMB an open source enterprise. Releases of binaries
    (executable code) for the Windows and Linux operating systems are
    currently freely available, with a port to OS X to follow.
    Ultimately, the full source code will be available, enabling
    researchers to contribute their own enhancements and add-ons, using
    the code repository and support forums established on the ADMB
    project web site.

    The Gordon and Betty
    Moore Foundation, established in 2000, seeks to advance environmental
    conservation and cutting-edge scientific research around the world
    and improve the quality of life in the San Francisco Bay Area. For
    more information, visit
    www.moore.org
    .

  • ADMB Presentation at Seventh European Automatic Differentiation Workshop

    December 8, 2008

    On November 25 2008, the Seventh European Workshop on Automatic Differentiation heard a presentation by Hans Skaug entitled Automated Likelihood Based Inference for Stochastic Volatility Models using AD Model Builder. Skaug and coauthors Jun Yu and Dave Fournier apply the Laplace approximation to fit stochastic volatility (SV) models.
    The models are implemented in AD Model Builder which uses third order automatic differentiation. The use of AD Model Builder substantially reduces computation time
    relative to Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms.

  • Fournier Nominated for AFS Ricker Award

    August 27, 2008

    The ADMB Foundation has nominated Dave Fournier for the American Fisheries Society’s William E. Ricker Resource Conservation Award. With this nomination, the Foundation is helping to give Dave the recognition he deserves for both his general contribution to fisheries stock assessment and for creation of ADMB. For more information visit the ADMB Foundation.

     

    The nomination was unsuccessful. Dr Fournier’s nomination was the runner-up and therefore he will be automatically re-nominated next year using the same material. Thanks to everyone that provided support letters. For those of you who did not provide support letters, we encourage you to send a letter next year. 

  • The ADMB Foundation receives contribution from AZTI Technalia and The Second International Symposium on Tagging and Tracking Marine Fish with Electronic Devices

    July 5, 2008

    The ADMB Foundation has received a contribution from the Second
    International Symposium on Tagging and Tracking Marine Fish with
    Electronic Devices. We thank the organizers of the Symposium and the
    local host organization, AZTI Technalia, for their generosity.

  • The ADMB Foundation receives contribution from the Marine Resource Assessment and Management Group.

    July 5, 2008

    The ADMB Foundation has received a contribution from the Marine
    Resource Assessment and Management Group (MARAM), Department of
    Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Cape Town. We
    greatly appreciate this contribution.

  • The ADMB Foundation receives startup funds from the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission

    July 5, 2008

    The ADMB Foundation has received $2,000 from the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission to help start the foundation. We greatly appreciate this donation.

  • ADMB Courses by the Quantitative Fisheries Center, Michigan State University at Quantitative Fisheries Center, Michigan State University

    June 8, 2006 – June 13, 2006

    ADMB Courses by the Quantitative Fisheries Center, Michigan State University
    Course materials available at http://qfc.fw.msu.edu/download_workshop.asp

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