Hello, My name is Andrew Thornton. I'm a biologist at Guana Tolomato Matanzas NERR in Northeast Florida. For the past few years we have been performing Marsh Bird Monitoring, following the National Marsh Bird Monitoring Protocol that was cooperatively set up by USGS, USFWS, and the University of Arizona (Dr. Conway). I am attempting to analyze our personal data using the program Distance, v6.0, but I have been having some issues with making sure I am running everything correctly. I have gone through a large part of the Introduction to Distance Sampling: Estimating Abundance of Biological Populations book, and while that has been a great help, I'd really like to contact someone who has used this analysis method for similar purposes to make absolutely certain I am inputting everything correctly. One of my major concerns is that our Marsh Bird Monitoring takes place on a habitat boundary; for most of our survey that is where the marsh meets the water. The water in our case is often a large body, and I believe this may be skewing our data because of the lack of birds from approximately half of the potential range of detections area.
If you have experience with this analysis and would be willing to help, I would very much appreciate being contacted off list. It may be that all I need is a fifteen minute phone call to work through this. Thanks very much, Andrew Thornton Contract Field Biologist, Anastasia Mosquito Control DEP, GTM Research Reserve 505 Guana River Rd Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 32082 (904)823-4525 andrew.thorn...@dep.state.fl.us The Department of Environmental Protection values your feedback as a customer. DEP Secretary Michael W. Sole is committed to continuously assessing and improving the level and quality of services provided to you. Please take a few minutes to comment on the quality of service you received. Simply click on this link to the DEP Customer Survey<http://survey.dep.state.fl.us/?refemail=andrew.thorn...@dep.state.fl.us>. Thank you in advance for completing the survey.
