NOAA Fisheries’ stock assessment professional development program provides stock assessment scientists with ongoing, consistent opportunities for continued education and training in the evolving skills necessary for next generation stock assessments in all regions. Through in-person and online training workshops, fisheries scientists can obtain educational opportunities to advance their knowledge and skills at the forefront of fisheries population dynamics. This training webpage provides an information portal for training resources for fisheries population dynamics scientists.
For information about upcoming trainings, workshops, and webinars, see the FIT News updates and FIT calendar.
Past Trainings offered by the National Stock Assessment Program
Please reach out to abigail.furnish@noaa.gov with questions.
2021
| Course |
Instructor |
Date |
Location |
| Stock Synthesis: Environmental-linked parameters and conditional age at length |
Richard Methot |
July 22 & 23, 2021 |
AFSC, virtual |
2020
| Course |
Instructor |
Date |
Location |
| Stock Synthesis: Intro to the Stock Synthesis Interface |
Richard Methot |
March 19, 2020 |
|
| Species Distribution Modeling |
James Thorson and Elliott Hazen |
March 19, 2020 |
|
| Intro to Github |
Corinne Bassin and Christine Stawitz |
April 20, 2020 |
Providence, RI |
2019
| Course |
Instructor |
Date |
Location |
| Stock Synthesis: Selectivity and Catchability |
Richard Methot |
March 7, 2019 |
|
| VAST: Spatio-Temporal Analysis |
James Thorson |
Aug. 15-16, 2019 |
NEFSC, Woods Hole, MA |
2018
| Course |
Instructor |
Date |
Location |
| Data Limited Sock Assessments: Principles and Applications |
Jason Cope and Chantel Wetzel |
Oct. 15-17, 2018 |
SEFSC, Miami, FL |
| Scientific Computing |
Matthew Supernaw |
June 19-21, 2018 |
PIFSC, Honolulu, HI |
| Stock Synthesis: Intro to SS 3.30 |
Richard Methot |
June 21, 2018 |
|
| Stock Synthesis |
Richard Methot |
June 4-7, 2018 |
SEFSC, Miami, FL |
| Data Limited Stock Assessments: Principles and Applications |
Jason Cope and Meaghan Bryan |
April 17-19, 2018 |
AFSC, Seattle, WA |
| Stock Synthesis - Shark Focus |
Richard Methot |
Feb. 2-23, 2018 |
SWFSC, La Jolla, CA |
| MSE Short Course |
Andre Punt |
Jan. 8-12, 2018 |
PIFSC, Honolulu, HI |
2017
| Course |
Instructor |
Date |
Location |
| Data Limited Sock Assessments: Principles and Applications |
Jason Cope and Chantel Wetzel |
Aug. 8-10, 2017 |
NEFSC, Woods Hole, MA |
| Introduction to FishStats for new users |
Jim Thorson |
Feb. 8-10, 2017 |
AFSC, Seattle, WA |