MIGRATE will hold its 2008 meeting at the Laboratory of Ornithology in Ithaca NY
from the 3rd to 5th of April. The theme of the meeting is: New Technologies For Studying Bird Migration.
Meeting Description: Many questions in animal biology require the ability to track individual animal movements. Because tracking animal movement is central to answering so many questions in animal biology, the past century has seen constant innovation in tracking methods. This innovation, like that in most technology-driven fields, has become very rapid and multi-disciplinary over the past decade. Interdisciplinary collaborations between engineers and biologists have been particularly fruitful and remain one of the most promising avenues for improving our understanding of long-distance animal movements.
This meeting will emphasize bringing engineers and biologists together to further interdisciplinary solutions to problems in tracking methods. Participants will be exposed to the current state-of-the-art and likely future prospects for electronic tracking technology. We will work together to create viable strategies to scale-up current technologies to make them available to the entire ornithological community.
ISOSCAPES 2008 - Santa Barbara, California, April 8-10
The Isoscapes 2008 Meeting will bring together research groups that are generating and analyzing maps of isotope ratios in the environment (isoscapes).
Overview - Past & Future
- 2007 MIGRATE Annual Meeting at Sweetbriar College in Sweetbriar, VA – March 8 to 11 2007, Developed Network Structure and Goals -
Minutes , Agenda
- 2007 MIGRATE sponsored three graduate students to enroll in Lund University’s Animal Migration Course, 17 through 26 October 2007
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2008 MIGRATE Annual Meeting at Cornell’s Laboratory of Ornithology in Ithaca NY will focus on engineering solutions to animal tracking problems
- 2008 Developing a migration short course to be offered prior to the 2008 joint ornithological societies meeting in Portland in August 2008
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2008 Sponsoring scientist training through an RCN:BASIN workshop focused on mapping stable isotope ratios
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