Lecture 0: Introductions and Structure

Elie Gurarie

• PhD in Quantitative Ecology from University of Washington, Seattle (2008)
• Post-doc / lecturer / research scientist at:
  • University of Helsinki
  • NOAA - Marine Mammal Lab
  • UW - School of Environmental and Forest Sciences
  • University of Maryland - Department of Biology
  • Columbia University - Lamont Earth Science

Have worked on movement ecology since the beginning of PhD

Silvia Alvarez

• BS of Biology - Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá
  Masters in Biodiversity and Ecology - University of Göttingen
  
• PhD candidate, Bill Fagan lab, University of Maryland
  tropical / socio-behavioral / theoretical / movement ecologist
• Fun fact: Silvia loves being cold!

develop skills in animal movement analysis.

Roughly, in the following order:

• manipulation
• visualization
• summarization
• mathematical models
• behavioral structure
• covariates
• hypothesis driven analysis

with lots of packages.

Also:

• some math
• some stats
• some good ecological common sense.

Somewhat improvised. But most days:

1. Lecture + Lab 1
2. Lecture + Lab 2
3. maybe Lecture + Lab 3
4. definitely 1 hour lunch somewhere in there
5. Data Work
   • singly or on groups
   • performing some milestone related to main topics covered

are on the website:

• https://terpconnect.umd.edu/~egurarie/teaching/MovementAtAukeBay/
• lectures as presentations, in “document style”, and stripped R code
• lists of packages introduced
• other useful links

Maybe try to set up a forum for collaborative discussions? Any ideas how?