Day 1: January 3, 2018

Time Activity Speaker Topic
9:00 – 10:30 Lecture ERD/DPS Introductions and Goals
10:30 – 10:45 Morning Break    
10:45 – 12:00 Livecode DPS Basics in R (R Studio; importing, exporting, cleaning data; data classes)
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch    
13:30 – 14:45 Livecode DPS Slightly more advanced R (custom functions, flexible arguments, loops)
14:45 – 15:00 Afternoon Break    
15:00 – 16:30 Hands on Practice manipulating raw data

Day 2: January 4, 2018

Time Activity Speaker Topic
9:00 – 10:00 Lecture ERD/DPS Overview of Movement Ecology and Analyses
10:30 – 10:45 Morning Break    
10:45 – 12:00 Livecode DPS Introduction to spatial data in R
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch    
13:30 – 14:45 Livecode DPS Movement data in R (movebank, ltraj objects, path metrics)
14:45 – 15:00 Afternoon Break    
15:00 – 16:30 Hands on Practice plotting tracks and extracting path metrics

Day 3: January 5, 2018

Time Activity Speaker Topic
9:00 – 11:00 Lecture ERD Home ranges and utilization distributions
11:00 – 11:15 Morning Break    
11:30 – 12:00 Livecode DPS MCP, KDE home range estimation in R
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch    
13:00 – 14:15 Livecode ERD Convex hull methods - LoCoH
14:15 – 14:30 Afternoon Break    
14:30 – 16:30 Hands on Home Range Estimation Activity

Day 4: January 8, 2018

Time Activity Speaker Topic
9:00 – 10:30 Lecture WMG Space-time considerations
10:30 – 10:45 Morning Break    
10:45 – 12:00 Livecode ERD TLoCoh
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch    
13:30 – 14:45 Livecode ERD T-LoCoH derived metrics; alternative methods (Brownian bridges)
14:45 – 15:00 Afternoon Break    
15:00 – 16:30 Hands on Activity

Day 5: January 9, 2018

Time Activity Speaker Topic
9:00 – 10:30 Lecture ERD Modelling habitat selection: common selection models
10:30 – 10:45 Morning Break    
10:45 – 12:00 LiveCode DPS Habitat Selection Analysis in R
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch  
13:30 – 14:45 LiveCode ERD/DPS Step Selection Functions and Beyond in R
14:45 – 15:00 Afternoon Break    
15:00 – 16:30 Hands on Selection Activity

Day 6: January 10, 2018

Time Activity Speaker Topic
9:00 – 10:30 Lecture WMG Behavioral analysis; FME, CAM, and movement syndromes
10:30 – 10:45 Morning Break    
10:45 – 12:00 Livecode ERD Extracting behavioral state from movement tracks (BCPA, HMM)
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch    
13:30 – 14:45 Livecode DPS Identifying movement syndromes; metrics for classification
14:45 – 15:00 Afternoon Break    
15:00 – 16:30 Hands on Continuing Activities…

Day 7: January 11, 2018

Time Activity Speaker Topic
9:00 – 10:30 Lecture DPS Simulating movement; when and why?
10:30 – 10:45 Morning Break    
10:45 – 12:00 Livecode ERD Simulating movement 1
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch    
13:30 – 14:45 Livecode ERD Simulating movement 2
14:45 – 15:00 Afternoon Break    
15:00 – 16:30 Hands on Simulation Activity

Day 8: January 12, 2018

Time Activity Speaker Topic
9:00 – 10:30 Lecture WMG Epidemiological models
10:30 – 10:45 Morning Break    
10:45 – 12:00 LiveCode WMG Modeling Epidemics in Nova and fitting parameters
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch    
13:30 – 14:45 Wrap Up DPS/ERD Additional Topics and Resources
14:45 – 15:00 Afternoon Break    
15:00 – 16:30 Wrap Up Questions and Final Discussion