Sunday
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Staff / Welcome and Introduction from the Chairs
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Evolutionary Drivers of Animal Movement
Discussion Leader: Emanuel Fronhofer (ISEM - CNRS - University of Montpellier, France)
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:45 pm - 8:05 pm
Nicolas Schtickzelle (UCLouvain, Belgium)
"Dispersal in a Bottle: Drivers and Intraspecific Variation of Movement and Dispersal of a Ciliate in Microcosms"
8:05 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm
Hanna Kokko (University of Mainz, Germany)
"Sex-Biased Dispersal: Do Theoreticians and Empiricists Listen to Each Other Enough?"
8:30 pm - 8:35 pm
Discussion
8:35 pm - 8:55 pm
Marjo Saastamoinen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
"Environmental and Genetic Drivers of Dispersal – Lessons from Butterflies"
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm
Allison Pierce (University of Colorado Denver, United States)
"Migration Strategy Alters Optimization of Energetic Trade-Offs That Drive Variation in Life History and Pace of Life"
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm
Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm
Elham Nourani (Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany)
"Dynamics of the Energy Landscape Across Ontogeny"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Origins of Individual Variation in Movement Strategies
Discussion Leader: Judy Shamoun-Baranes (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Ran Nathan (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
"High-Throughput Movement Ecology Enables New Insights into Among-Individual Variation in Behavior and Cognition"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
Susan Lowerre-Barbieri (University of Florida / Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, United States)
"Movescapes: Individual Variability in Movement and Reproductive Success in Marine Fish"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:25 am
Coffee Break
10:25 am - 10:40 am
Samantha Patrick (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)
"The Importance of Personality for Individual Movement Decisions"
10:40 am - 10:45 am
Discussion
10:45 am - 11:00 am
Anne Hertel (Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich (LMU), Germany)
"Individual Variability in the Ontogeny of Movement Behavior"
11:00 am - 11:05 am
Discussion
11:05 am - 11:25 am
Jerod Merkle (University of Wyoming, United States)
"How Past Experience and Sociality Shape Individual Movement and Why it Matters"
11:25 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:40 am
Jeanne Clermont (Université du Québec à Rimouski, Canada)
"Movements and Foraging Behaviors of A Territorial, Active Hunting Predator"
11:40 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 11:55 am
Marcus Michelangeli (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden)
"Personality, Spatiotemporal Ecological Variation, and Resident/Explorer Movement Syndromes in The Sleepy Lizard"
11:55 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm
Marta Acácio (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
"Aging In Nature: Lifelong Changes in The Movement and Social Behavior of Griffon Vultures"
12:10 pm - 12:15 pm
Discussion
12:15 pm - 12:25 pm
Henrik Flink (Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden, Sweden)
"Niche Variation Among and Within Sympatric Subpopulations of Northen Pike"
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
The GRC Power Hour™
The GRC Power Hour™ is designed to address diversity and inclusion in the scientific workplace by providing a safe environment for informal and meaningful conversations amongst colleagues of all career stages. The program supports the professional growth of all members of our communities, including ethnicity, race and/or gender identity by providing an open forum for discussion and mentoring.
Organizers: Francesca Cagnacci (Edmund Mach Foundation, Italy) and Allison Shaw (University of Minnesota, United States)
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Interspecific Interactions that Motivate Movement
Discussion Leader: Meggan Craft (University of Minnesota, United States)
6:00 pm - 6:20 pm
Sandra Binning (Université de Montréal, Canada)
"Hitching a Ride: Incorporating Infection into our Understanding of Animal Movement"
6:20 pm - 6:25 pm
Discussion
6:25 pm - 6:45 pm
Emily Cohen (University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, United States)
"Community Ecology of Bird Migration: Co-Occurring Migrations and Interspecific Interactions"
6:45 pm - 6:50 pm
Discussion
6:50 pm - 7:10 pm
Allison Shaw (University of Minnesota, United States)
"Seeing the Positive: Are Mutualisms Overlooked in Movement Ecology?"
7:10 pm - 7:15 pm
Discussion
7:15 pm - 7:25 pm
Sarah Bassing (University of Idaho, United States)
"Predator-Prey Space-Use and Landscape Features Influence Animal Movement in A Large-Mammal Community"
7:25 pm - 7:30 pm
Discussion
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Thibault Fronville (The Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Germany)
"Assessing The Performances of Five Statistical Methods to Infer Interaction From Movement Data"
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm
Discussion
7:45 pm - 7:55 pm
Brian Smith (Utah State University, United States)
"Testing Predator-Prey Theory with Movement Ecology"
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Cues to Decide When and Where to Move
Discussion Leader: Mark Hebblewhite (University of Montana, United States)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Briana Abrahms (University of Washington, United States)
"Navigating Dynamic Environments: Interplays Between Environment, Social Cues, and Memory in Megafauna Migration"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
Autumn-Lynn Harrison (Smithsonian's National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute, United States)
"Tracking Individual Birds for Multiple Years Across Oceans and Continents to Determine Drivers of Movement"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:25 am
Coffee Break
10:25 am - 10:40 am
Guillaume Bastille-Rousseau (Southern Illinois University, United States)
"Shifting from Describing Animal Movement to Characterizing Behaviors"
10:40 am - 10:45 am
Discussion
10:45 am - 11:00 am
Emily Bennitt (University of Botswana, Botswana)
"Drivers of Herbivore Movement in Semi-Arid Southern African Ecosystems"
11:00 am - 11:05 am
Discussion
11:05 am - 11:25 am
Eric Vander Wal (Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada)
"Individual States and Social Constraints on When and Where to Move"
11:25 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:40 am
Ying-Chi (Ginny) Chan (Swiss Ornithological Institute, Switzerland)
"The Effect of Moonlight on Natal Dispersal Timing of A Nocturnal Bird of Prey"
11:40 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 11:55 am
Jane Fugate (University of Wyoming, United States)
"How Ungulates Learn to Migrate: A Case Study With Yellowstone Bison"
11:55 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm
Natasha Gillies (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)
"Is Infrasound A Cue for Movement in The Wandering Albatross"
12:10 pm - 12:15 pm
Discussion
12:15 pm - 12:25 pm
William Oestreich (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, United States)
"Acoustic Evidence for Seasonal Resource-Tracking Migration by A Top Predator of the Deep Sea"
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Modelling Space Use: From the Individual to the Population
Discussion Leader: Juan Morales (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)
6:00 pm - 6:15 pm
Jonathan Potts (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)
"Can Small-Scale Movement Models Predict Broader-Scale Spatial Patterns?"
6:15 pm - 6:20 pm
Discussion
6:20 pm - 6:35 pm
Nathan Ranc (Université de Toulouse, INRAE, CEFS, France)
"The Space-Use Implications of Memory"
6:35 pm - 6:40 pm
Discussion
6:40 pm - 6:55 pm
Louise Riotte-Lambert (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France)
"From Individual-Level Cognition to Population-Level Space Use Patterns and Environmental Feedbacks."
6:55 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:10 pm
Frances Buderman (Pennsylvania State University, United States)
"When Does It Pay to Be Certain? Location Certainty in Models for Movements and Space-Use"
7:10 pm - 7:15 pm
Discussion
7:15 pm - 7:25 pm
John Fieberg (University of Minnesota, United States)
"Evaluating Goodness-of-Fit of Integrated Step Selection Analyses and Hidden Markov Models Using Lineups"
7:25 pm - 7:30 pm
Discussion
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Yun Tao (University of Georgia, United States)
"Hidden Movement Dynamics and Their Applications in Population and Disease Ecology"
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm
Discussion
7:45 pm - 7:55 pm
Veronica Winter (Pennsylvania State University, United States)
"A Transferable Framework for Modeling Multi-Level Habitat Selection"
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Compiling Big Data to Understand the Movement Process
Discussion Leader: Ana Sequeira (Australian National University, Australia)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Luca Börger (Swansea University (UK), United Kingdom)
"Big Data but Small Results? Embedding Efficient Data Compilation within Data Analysis and Scientific Knowledge Discovery Cycles"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
Marie Auger-Méthé (University of British Columbia, Canada)
"Merging Data Streams to Extract More Out of Movement Data"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:25 am
Coffee Break
10:25 am - 10:40 am
Ryan Reisinger (University of Southampton, United Kingdom)
"Retrospective Analysis of Antarctic Tracking Data"
10:40 am - 10:50 am
Discussion
10:50 am - 11:05 am
Marius Somveille (University College London, United Kingdom)
"Using Big Data and Mechanistic Modeling to Unravel the Processes Driving Bird Migration"
11:05 am - 11:15 am
Discussion
11:15 am - 11:35 am
Christian Rutz (University of St Andrews, United Kingdom)
"The Power of Community Building and Collaboration: Achievements of the COVID-19 Bio-Logging Initiative, and a Vision for a Tag Registry for Advancing Conservation Knowledge (TRACK)"
11:35 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 11:55 am
Diego Ellis Soto (Yale University/ Max Planck - Yale Center for Biodiversity Movement and Global Change, United States)
"Animal-Borne Sensors as A Biologically Informed Lens on A Changing Climate"
11:55 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm
Yuval Werber ( University of Haifa, Israel)
"Large Scale Bat Migration Patterns Revealed Using Radar and Machine Learning Classifcation"
12:10 pm - 12:15 pm
Discussion
12:15 pm - 12:25 pm
Andrea Kölzsch (Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany)
"The MoveApps Tracking Analysis Platform and Use Cases in Science, Management and Conservation"
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Responses to a Changing Environment
Discussion Leader: Julie Young (Utah State University, United States)
6:00 pm - 6:15 pm
Christopher Wilmers (University of California, Santa Cruz, United States)
"The Energetics of Carnivore Movement"
6:15 pm - 6:20 pm
Discussion
6:20 pm - 6:35 pm
Simon Chamaillé-Jammes (CNRS, France)
"Knowing and Sensing to Survive Hard Times Until They Improve"
6:35 pm - 6:40 pm
Discussion
6:40 pm - 6:55 pm
Akinori Takahashi (National Institute of Polar Research, Japan)
"Movement Ecology of Penguins in Response to Climate Variability"
6:55 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:10 pm
Kristina Beck (Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Germany)
"The Effect of Human Resource Provisioning on Animal Social Structure"
7:10 pm - 7:15 pm
Discussion
7:15 pm - 7:25 pm
Nandintsetseg Dejid (Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Germany)
"Linking Animal Movements to Population Abundance Along A Disturbance Gradient: Mongolian Gazelles as A Case Study"
7:25 pm - 7:30 pm
Discussion
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Hans Linssen (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
"Migratory Swans Adjust Their Wintering Range to A Warming Climate"
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm
Discussion
7:45 pm - 7:55 pm
Angela Szesciorka (Oregon State University, United States)
"A Tal of Two Whales; Using Passive Acoustic Monitoring To Study The Impacts of Climate Change on Whale Migration"
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair(s); Complete the GRC Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Dates and Venue; Election of the Next Vice Chair(s)
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Invasions and Outbreaks
Discussion Leader: Richard Hall (University of Georgia, United States)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Ceridwen Fraser (University of Otago, New Zealand)
"Drifting on Shifting Seas: Frequent, Long-Distance Dispersal of Plants and Animals Across Southern Hemisphere Oceans Revealed by Genomic Data and Modelling"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
Gao Hu (Nanjing Agricultural University, China)
"Environmental Drivers of Annual Population Fluctuations in Latitudinal Insect Migrants in the East Asia Migration Flyway"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:25 am
Coffee Break
10:25 am - 10:45 am
Adele Mennerat (University of Bergen, Norway)
"The Movement Ecology of Parasites: Insights from Mark-Recapture Approaches"
10:45 am - 10:50 am
Discussion
10:50 am - 11:10 am
Atle Mysterud (University of Oslo, Norway)
"Using Movement Ecology to Inform Wildlife Disease Management: the Case of Chronic Wasting Disease Among Cervids in Norway"
11:10 am - 11:15 am
Discussion
11:15 am - 11:35 am
Claire Teitelbaum (NASA Ames Research Center, United States)
"Linking Individual Variation in Movement Behavior to Infection Dynamics in Highly Mobile Species"
11:35 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 11:55 am
Marius Grabow (Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Germany)
"Combining High-Resolution Biologging (ATLAS) with Capture-Recapture to Infer Pathogen-Induced Effects on Movement and Habitat Use to Explore The Risk of Ebola Virus Transmission"
11:55 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm
Larisa Lee-Cruz (INRAE / Cirad, France)
"Spatial Modeling of Hypsignathus Monstrous Movement and Habitat Use to Explore The Risk of Ebola Virus Transmission"
12:10 pm - 12:15 pm
Discussion
12:15 pm - 12:25 pm
Tamara Volkmer (Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Radolfzell, Germany, Germany)
"Early-Life Immune Parameters Predict Survival Probability In Free Living Common Blackbirds"
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Keynote Session: Emerging Movement Patterns and Conservation Issues
Discussion Leader: John Fryxell (University of Guelph, Canada)
6:00 pm - 6:20 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
6:20 pm - 6:50 pm
Stephanie Kramer-Schadt (Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V., Germany)
"Coupling Individual Movement Decisions with Dynamic Models to Improve Predictions for Species Conservation"
6:50 pm - 7:05 pm
Discussion
7:05 pm - 7:35 pm
Oswald Schmitz (Yale University, United States)
"Why Animals Matter: Movement Ecology and the Zoogeochemistry of Ecosystems and Landscapes"
7:35 pm - 7:50 pm
Discussion
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
General Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure