ANIMOVE Summer School 2013

+++ application dead-line expired - please visit www.animove.org for updates on courses and summer schools +++

This Summer School provides you with profound knowledge of remote sensing and species distribution and animal movement within conservation.
It includes hand-on exercises ranging from land cover and species distribution analysis to modeling of animal movement. Talks by conservationists and field work (GPS tracking) will be part of the Summer School as well.

This applied Summer School focuses on addressing conservation issues using remote sensing and modelling. Only Open Source software will be used to allow participants to apply them after the Summer School as well. Programs learnt will be: R (raster, sp, dismo, rgdal etc.), GRASS (with add-ons like r.pi), QGIS.

The workshops will deal with:

• tracking animals and doing field work in the surrounding of the venue
• practicing remote sensing field measurement methods
• learning basic and advanced methods in R and GRASS
• learning statistical spatial analysis and modelling, including SDMs and species movement analysis
• deriving relevant environmental parameters for animal movement using remote sensing time-series data
• analysing the relationship between animal movement and environmental factors

Evening keynote talks will provide knowledge about:

• real-world application of animal movement within conservation
• overview of challenges and needs of conservation projects
• importance to analyse local to global animal movement patterns in combination with environmental data

By the end of the Summer School, participants will be able to:

•     know what and how conservation can be helped by applying remote sensing and modelling
•     apply remote sensing analysis and use satellite data to analyse land cover status
•     Collect field data using GPS and tracking devices and analyse them inside a GIS
•     Design and perform analysis using spatial data and spatial analysis techniques
•     Conduct time-series land cover analysis using satellite imagery
•     Link species presence/absence or abundance data to spatial data
•     Apply animal movement model and link them to environmental data
•     Apply advanced spatial analysis techniques to real-world conservation and ecology problems

Download the Summer School flyer (large version (1.3 MB) -- small version (330KB))

Dates

Summer School:
August 11.- 25. 2013
(arrival on the 11th, workshops start on the 12th 9am)

Application dead-line:
March 31st 2013 (Midnight CEST)  +++ application closed: please visit www.animove.org for updates on courses on summer schools +++

Location

Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Radolfzell, Germany: link

Application

The application deadline was 31. March 2013. We would like to thank all the applicants for their submissions. In the near future we will post information about the summer school 2014 here and on www.animove.org

Lecturer

Martin Wikelski
Peter Leimgruber
Björn Reineking
Nathalie Pettorelli (organizer)
Kamran Safi (organizer)
Martin Wegmann (organizer)

and others (detailed program and lecturer will be provided prior the Summer School)

Sponsors and organising institutions