Inaugural Joint Meeting of the Computational Ecology Special Interest Group of the British Ecological Society and the British and Irish Region of the International Biometric Society
Advances in the analysis of animal movement
Date: Wednesday, 9th November, 2011.
Venue: Charles Darwin House, 12 Roger Street, London WC1N 2JU.
Talk abstracts are at: http://bir.biometricsociety.org/events/agm2011
10.00 - 10.30: Registration and coffee
10.30 - 11.15 am A non-exhaustive overview of animal movement models
Roland Langrock (University of St Andrews)
11.15 - 11.45 am A tale of two case studies
Ruth King (University of St Andrews)
11.45 - 12.15 pm The use of GPS tracking data to infer foraging behaviour in seabirds
Adam Butler (BioSS) and Ellie Owen (RSPB).
12.15 - 1.30 pm Sandwich lunch and Annual General Meeting of the British and Irish Region of the International Biometric Society
1.30 - 2.00 pm Modelling animal movement in continuous time
Paul Blackwell (University of Sheffield)
2.00 - 2.30 pm Modelling movement in the third dimension: Diving in seals
Jason Matthiopoulos (University of St Andrews)
2.30 - 3.00 pm Testing for biological Levy flights: theory, empirical patterns and potential process.
David Sims (Marine Biological Association)
3.00 - 3.30 pm Title to be announced
Robin Freeman (Microsoft)
3.30 - 4.00 pm: Tea
4.00 - 4.45pm Understanding and Predicting Mammalian Space-Use: Recent Advances, Future Directions
Paul Moorcroft (Harvard University )
4.45 - 5.15pm
General Discussion
Costs: Pre-registration is required, and charges for the meeting include lunch. Biometric Society members £30; student members £15; non-members £50. Payment by cheque, made payable to the Biometric Society, should be made by 4th November. Send (with your name and email address) to: Byron Morgan, Movement meeting, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NF. Note that places are limited.
Non-members are encouraged to join the Society (http://bir.biometricsociety.org/) to take immediate advantage of the members' registration fee. Note: student membership is free!
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