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 - 7:50 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:50 pm - 8:10 pm
Nicolas Schtickzelle (UCLouvain, Belgium)
"Dispersal in a Bottle: Drivers and Intraspecific Variation of Movement and Dispersal of a Ciliate in Microcosms"
8:10 pm - 8:20 pm
Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:40 pm
Hanna Kokko (University of Mainz, Germany)
"Sex-Biased Dispersal: Do Theoreticians and Empiricists Listen to Each Other Enough?"
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:10 pm
Marjo Saastamoinen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
"Environmental and Genetic Drivers of Dispersal – Lessons from Butterflies"
9:10 pm - 9:20 pm
Discussion
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
General 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 - 9:10 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:10 am - 9:30 am
Ran Nathan (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
"High-Throughput Movement Ecology Enables New Insights into Among-Individual Variation in Behavior and Cognition"
9:30 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 10:00 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"
10:00 am - 10:10 am
Discussion
10:10 am - 10:40 am
Coffee Break
10:40 am - 11:00 am
Samantha Patrick (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)
"The Importance of Personality for Individual Movement Decisions"
11:00 am - 11:10 am
Discussion
11:10 am - 11:30 am
Anne Hertel (Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich (LMU), Germany)
"Individual Variability in the Ontogeny of Movement Behavior"
11:30 am - 11:40 am
Discussion
11:40 am - 12:00 pm
Jerod Merkle (University of Wyoming, United States)
"How Past Experience and Sociality Shape Individual Movement and Why it Matters"
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm
Discussion
12:10 pm - 12:25 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
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 - 6:10 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
6:10 pm - 6:30 pm
Sandra Binning (Université de Montréal, Canada)
"Hitching a Ride: Incorporating Infection into our Understanding of Animal Movement"
6:30 pm - 6:40 pm
Discussion
6:40 pm - 7:00 pm
Emily Cohen (University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, United States)
"Community Ecology of Bird Migration: Co-Occurring Migrations and Interspecific Interactions"
7:00 pm - 7:10 pm
Discussion
7:10 pm - 7:30 pm
Allison Shaw (University of Minnesota, United States)
"Seeing the Positive: Are Mutualisms Overlooked in Movement Ecology?"
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Discussion
7:40 pm - 7:55 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
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 - 9:10 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:10 am - 9:30 am
Briana Abrahms (University of Washington, United States)
"Navigating Dynamic Environments: Interplays Between Environment, Social Cues, and Memory in Megafauna Migration"
9:30 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 10:00 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"
10:00 am - 10:10 am
Discussion
10:10 am - 10:40 am
Coffee Break
10:40 am - 11:00 am
Guillaume Bastille-Rousseau (Southern Illinois University, United States)
"Shifting from Describing Animal Movement to Characterizing Behaviors"
11:00 am - 11:10 am
Discussion
11:10 am - 11:30 am
Emily Bennitt (University of Botswana, Botswana)
"Drivers of Herbivore Movement in Semi-Arid Southern African Ecosystems"
11:30 am - 11:40 am
Discussion
11:40 am - 12:00 pm
Eric Vander Wal (Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada)
"Individual States and Social Constraints on When and Where to Move"
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm
Discussion
12:10 pm - 12:25 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
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 - 6:10 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
6:10 pm - 6:30 pm
Jonathan Potts (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)
"Can Small-Scale Movement Models Predict Broader-Scale Spatial Patterns?"
6:30 pm - 6:40 pm
Discussion
6:40 pm - 7:00 pm
Nathan Ranc (Université de Toulouse, INRAE, CEFS, France)
"The Space-Use Implications of Memory"
7:00 pm - 7:10 pm
Discussion
7:10 pm - 7:30 pm
Louise Riotte-Lambert (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France)
"From Individual-Level Cognition to Population-Level Space Use Patterns and Environmental Feedbacks."
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Discussion
7:40 pm - 7:55 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
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 - 9:10 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:10 am - 9:30 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"
9:30 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 10:00 am
Marie Auger-Méthé (University of British Columbia, Canada)
"Merging Data Streams to Extract More Out of Movement Data"
10:00 am - 10:10 am
Discussion
10:10 am - 10:40 am
Coffee Break
10:40 am - 11:00 am
Ryan Reisinger (University of Southampton, United Kingdom)
"Retrospective Analysis of Antarctic Tracking Data"
11:00 am - 11:10 am
Discussion
11:10 am - 11:30 am
Marius Somveille (University College London, United Kingdom)
"Using Big Data and Mechanistic Modeling to Unravel the Processes Driving Bird Migration"
11:30 am - 11:40 am
Discussion
11:40 am - 12:00 pm
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)"
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm
Discussion
12:10 pm - 12:25 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
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 - 6:10 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
6:10 pm - 6:30 pm
Christopher Wilmers (University of California, Santa Cruz, United States)
"The Energetics of Carnivore Movement"
6:30 pm - 6:40 pm
Discussion
6:40 pm - 7:00 pm
Simon Chamaillé-Jammes (CNRS, France)
"Knowing and Sensing to Survive Hard Times Until They Improve"
7:00 pm - 7:10 pm
Discussion
7:10 pm - 7:30 pm
Akinori Takahashi (National Institute of Polar Research, Japan)
"Movement Ecology of Penguins in Response to Climate Variability"
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Discussion
7:40 pm - 7:50 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
7:50 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 - 9:10 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:10 am - 9:30 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"
9:30 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 10:00 am
Gao Hu (Nanjing Agricultural University, China)
"Environmental Drivers of Annual Population Fluctuations in Latitudinal Insect Migrants in the East Asia Migration Flyway"
10:00 am - 10:10 am
Discussion
10:10 am - 10:40 am
Coffee Break
10:40 am - 11:00 am
Adele Mennerat (University of Bergen, Norway)
"The Movement Ecology of Parasites: Insights from Mark-Recapture Approaches"
11:00 am - 11:10 am
Discussion
11:10 am - 11:30 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"
11:30 am - 11:40 am
Discussion
11:40 am - 12:00 pm
Claire Teitelbaum (NASA Ames Research Center, United States)
"Linking Individual Variation in Movement Behavior to Infection Dynamics in Highly Mobile Species"
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm
Discussion
12:10 pm - 12:20 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
12:20 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