Animal Movement as a Link Between Ecology, Evolution and Behavior

The Gordon Research Seminar on Movement Ecology of Animals is a unique forum for graduate students, post-docs, young faculty member and other scientists with comparable levels of experience and education to present new research and exchange cutting-edge ideas. This Gordon Research Seminar will feature a keynote lecture by Dr. Thomas Mueller, a career development session (Prof. Roland Kays, Dr. Jennifer Miller and Prof. Kasper Thorup), talks and posters by attendees, and an environment which encourages students and post-docs from diverse backgrounds to share their interest in movement ecology.

This meeting will focus on the drivers, patterns and consequences of organismal movement at all levels of biological organization, from physiological mechanisms, through population and community dynamics, and up to ecosystem processes. We aim to bring together scholars who study animal movement across a wide range of systems and who use a broad array of methodological approaches and technologies. And in doing so, we hope to facilitate discussion and synthesis among scholars from disparate sub-disciplines with the ultimate goal of providing a platform to unify the field of movement ecology and its community of scholars. We welcome all young researchers with an interest in advancing our understanding of movement across a diverse array of taxa, contexts and areas of inquiry.