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MPYC Launch Symposium: Biodiversity Movement and Global Change
Wednesday, 2 May 2018
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Time |
Presenter |
Presentation Title |
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9:30 am |
WELCOME RECEPTION (light breakfast and coffee provided) |
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10:00 am |
Walter Jetz, Martin Wikelski, MPYC Directors |
Brief welcome |
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10:05 am |
Peter Salovey, Yale University President |
Opening remarks |
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10:10 am |
Martin Stratmann, Max-Planck Society President |
Opening remarks |
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10:20 am |
Peter Schiffer, Yale University Vice Provost for Research |
Opening remarks |
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10:25 am |
Oswald Schmitz, YIBS Director |
Opening remarks |
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10:30 am |
Walter Jetz, Martin Wikelski, |
Center Vision |
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11:00 am |
Jonathan Baillie, National Geographic Society Chief Scientist |
Keynote 1: Filling the gaps in biodiversity data |
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11:20 pm |
David Schimel, MPI Biogeochemistry Jena External Director & Jet Propulsion Laboratory Research Scientist |
Keynote 2: Biodiversity observations from space: filling the data gaps |
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11:50 pm |
Beth Gardner, University of Washington Assistant Professor |
Keynote 3: Space, the final frontier: integrating movement into models to inform biodiversity change |
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12:20 pm |
LUNCH (catered) |
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1:15 pm |
Meg Crofoot, UC Davis Assistant Professor |
Keynote 4: Science of the Sociome: Tracking how individual interactions scale to complex societies |
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1:45 pm |
Andrea Flack, MPI Ornithology Postdoctoral Researcher |
From local collective behavior to global migratory patterns in White storks |
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2:00 pm |
Ben Carlson, Yale Ecology and Evolutionary Biology PhD Student |
Assessing individual variation in White stork space use and environmental niches |
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2:15 pm |
Frank La Sorte, Cornell Lab of Ornithology Research Associate |
The movement ecology of migratory birds: contrasting individual- and population-level perspectives |
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2:30 pm |
Kamran Safi, MPI Ornithology Research Scientist |
Developing new methods for movement ecology: Scaling up from individuals, to collectives, populations, species |
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2:45 pm |
COFFEE BREAK |
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3:15 pm |
Diego Ellis Soto, MPYC Research Scholar |
Biologging of Galãpagos Tortoises |
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3:30 pm |
Sarah Davidson, Movebank Data Curator |
From individual animals to global biodiversity: tools and possibilities for on-animal sensor data in Movebank |
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3:45 pm |
Michelle Duong, Map of Life Project Manager |
Synthesizing heterogeneous biodiversity data for research, education, and conservation |
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4:00 pm |
Elise Zipkin, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University |
Keynote 5: Expanding the scope of biodiversity modeling through data integration |
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4:30 pm |
Panel Discussion |
Center Opportunities |
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5:00 pm |
DRINKS RECEPTION (catered) |
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