PRIMER Workshops
Coming PRIMER and PERMANOVA+ workshops
All workshops given below are either taken by PRIMER-E personnel or their close academic colleagues, and PRIMER-E has had a role in the organisation and sanctioning of these courses. If an advertised course with firm dates is not listed here, we have no connection with it. Those given in bold type are ‘open’ commercial courses for which dates are fixed and places are believed still to be available at the time of last update of this Web page. They are designed for all-comers, primarily biologists or environmental scientists, and typically attended by a mix of university and other public sector research staff, post-graduate students, and consultants and applied scientists from the public and private environmental sectors. For further details please contact the local organiser (name and e-mail address given, or, if unsuccessful, contact Cathy Clarke or Marg Moroney at admin@primer-e.com).
2012 workshops with bookings currently being taken
**FULL** 26-30 March 2012, Fullerton CA, USA. A 5-day PRIMER workshop (including a short session on PERMANOVA+), open to all-comers, following two successful workshops held previously at the State University of California, Fullerton campus, and again hosted by Professor Steve Murray (College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, and Acting Vice-President for Academic Affairs, CSUF, smurray@fullerton.edu). The workshop will be led by Professor Bob Clarke (PRIMER-E/Plymouth Marine Laboratory). All registration and financial administration for this workshop is being handled by the CSUF College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, through the website https://apps.fullerton.edu/PrimerWorkshop/. However, this course is now full to capacity and no further registrations are being accepted. It might be worth checking with Steve Murray whether there have been any last-minute withdrawals, but the prospects for that are not good - interest in this course has been very high.
**BOOKING NOW OPEN** 16-20 April 2012, Massey University (Albany Campus), Auckland, New Zealand. This will be a one-week ‘PERMANOVA+ only’ course, led by Professor Marti Anderson (m.j.anderson@massey.ac.nz, New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study, Massey University) from her home campus, and open to all-comers. Registration has now opened, all registration and financial administration being handled from Massey University’s Institute of Information and Mathematical Sciences. Full details are on the website, http://permanova.massey.ac.nz. These include a downloadable registration form which needs to be returned to Annette Warbrooke at a.warbrooke@massey.ac.nz.
**BOOKING GOING WELL** 16-27 April 2012, Isla de Margarita, Venezuela. This 2-week course covers aspects of both PRIMER and PERMANOVA+. It will take place at the Hotel Portofino on Isla de Margarita, as a joint initiative of the Centro de Ecologia IVIC, CIET/UNESCO, Lab Ecologia Experimental USB and PRIMER-E. This course will be open to all researchers and students, but only from Latin-American countries; it will be conducted in Spanish. It will be led by Prof Juan J Cruz Motta (Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas) and Dr Edlin Guerra Castro (Centro de Ecologia, IVIC). Detailed information and registration particulars can be found at http://cbm.usb.ve/sv/cursos/. Specific queries can be directed to Prof JJ Cruz at juancruz@usb.ve.
**BOOKING GOING WELL** 30 April - 4 May 2012, Huntsman Marine Science Centre, St Andrews NB, Canada. A 5-day PRIMER workshop (including a short session on PERMANOVA+), open to all-comers, and another in the long tradition of successful Spring workshops hosted at St Andrews, by Dr Gerhard Pohle of the Huntsman lab. It will be led by Professor Bob Clarke (PRIMER-E/Plymouth Marine Laboratory). As previously, all registration and financial administration will be handled by Gerhard, who should be contacted at gerhard.pohle@huntsmanmarine.ca. He can e-mail you the course programme and information, including booking form.
**JUST ANNOUNCED - BOOKING OPEN** 11-22 June 2012, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, UK. This 2-week PRIMER & PERMANOVA+ workshop is open to all-comers and will be held in the Lecture Theatre of the new ‘Marine Matters Centre’ at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (with lunches provided at the nearby Marine Biological Association building). It will be led by Professor Bob Clarke (PRIMER-E/Plymouth Marine Laboratory) for week 1 (PRIMER) and Professor Marti Anderson (New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study, Massey University) for week 2 (PERMANOVA+), assisted by Ray Gorley (PRIMER-E), who has been responsible for coding all the Windows versions of PRIMER and PERMANOVA+. Though most people will wish to sign up for both weeks of this highly integrated presentation, registration for only one of the two weeks will be permitted (for those not requiring the more sophisticated tools in PERMANOVA+, or those who already have a deep understanding of the PRIMER methods, e.g. from a previous PRIMER course). For full information and a registration form, contact Cathy or Marg at the PRIMER-E office, primer@primer-e.com.
**BOOKING NOW OPEN** 9-13 July 2012, Albury-Wodonga (NSW/Victoria), Australia. This workshop is another in the annual to biennial series of alternating PRIMER and PERMANOVA+ one-week courses held at the Albury-Wodonga campus of La Trobe University. This time, it will be a 5-day PRIMER workshop, led by Dr Paul Somerfield (Plymouth Marine Laboratory). The local organiser is again Rachel Gorman of the Dept of Environmental Management & Ecology, La Trobe University (r.gorman@latrobe.edu.au), who will handle all the registration and financial administration. For details and a registration form to return to Rachel, see http://www.latrobe.edu.au/deme/2012Primerworkshop.htm.
Other 2012 possibilities (now receding)
**POSTPONED - MAY BE REARRANGED IN 2013** Charleston SC, USA. This was due to be a satellite PRIMER workshop 21-25 June 2012, preceding the 2012 Phycological Society of America meeting in Charleston SC, though details had not been finalised nor booking yet opened. However, the PSA meeting itself has suffered scheduling problems and the dates for this have now changed, making it impossible to mount the satellite PRIMER course on this occasion. Professor Steve Murray (Acting Vice-President for Academic Affairs, California State University Fullerton, smurray@fullerton.edu), who was due to organise this satellite week on behalf of the PSA, is now considering rescheduling it in conjunction with the PSA annual meeting of 2013, but clearly no decision will be made on this for many months. People looking for a PRIMER course in N America in 2012 should therefore note that there are only two possibilities (above): Fullerton CA at the end of March, and St Andrews NB, Canada, at the beginning of May
A Portugese-language PRIMER course was under consideration for Brazil, led by Prof Victor Quintino (of University of Aveiro, Portugal) but planning for this has not progressed
Any organisation or individual interested in hosting a future PRIMER and/or PERMANOVA+ course in their part of the world, on a fully commercial basis, should contact us at primer@primer-e.com. These courses would be led by one of the following team of experienced professionals: Dr Paul Somerfield, Prof Marti Anderson, Prof Bob Clarke, Prof Victor Quintino and Prof JJ Cruz-Motta. All have limited time for such activities but we will attempt to schedule any course which we believe is financially and administratively viable, though you should typically plan for a lead time of around a year.
Information updated 10 February 2012