Analysing animal movement in the marine environment
Workshop Lecturers
We are proud to have four excellent lecturers for this workshop. All of them have done fantastic work in the animal movement analysis field and will ensure a very successful workshop.
John Fieberg
Professor in the Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology at the University of Minnesota
John is a professor in the Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology at the University of Minnesota, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate-level statistics courses. He is a biostatistician specialising in quantitative ecology, with a focus on applying statistical and mathematical models to ecological and natural resource management problems. He is particularly interested in helping people make robust statistical inferences when dealing with messy data. Being a quantitative ecologist involves identifying and solving challenges that arise from the way data are collected in these fields. Much of Dr. Fieberg’s recent work has focused on analysing wildlife telemetry data, with applications to wildlife survival analysis, home range, and habitat selection modeling.
Brett T. McClintock
Research statistician at the NOAA National Marine Mammal Laboratory in Seattle
Brett is a research statistician (biology) at the NOAA National Marine Mammal Laboratory in Seattle. He earned a Ph.D. in wildlife biology and an M.S. in statistics at Colorado State University. His research focuses on the development and application of statistical models for ecological data, with a primary focus on marine mammals. He is the creator and maintainer of the animal movement R package ‘momentuHMM’ and the capture-recapture R package ‘multimark’. He also recently co-authored the book, Animal Movement: Statistical Models for Telemetry Data (CRC Press).
Marie Auger-Méthé
Associate Professor at the Institute for the Oceans & Fisheries and in the Department of Statistics at the University of British Columbia
Inês Silva
Postdoctoral researcher in the Earth System Science group at the Center for Advanced Systems Understanding (CASUS)
Marie is an Associate Professor at the Institute for the Oceans & Fisheries and in the Department of Statistics. Most of her work is interdisciplinary in nature and at the intersection between ecology, statistics, and marine sciences. Her recent focus has been on developing and applying statistical models to understand the movement and space use of marine species. Prior to starting at UBC, she did her PhD at the University of Alberta, and a BSC, MSc, and Postdoctoral fellowship at Dalhousie University. Marie is broadly interested in developing and applying statistical tools to infer behavioural and population processes from empirical data. While she is mostly interested in marine and polar species (e.g. narwhals and polar bears), the methods she develops are usually applicable to a wide range of species and ecosystems. Her current work centres on modelling animal behaviour using movement data. In addition, she is interested in the conservation and management of marine and polar ecosystems.
Inês is a postdoctoral researcher in the Earth System Science group at the Center for Advanced Systems Understanding (CASUS), located in Görlitz, Germany. She has a background spanning animal movement, road ecology and community ecology projects in Southeast Asia and South America. She is particularly interested in how animal movement is influenced by anthropogenic impacts, such as animal-road interactions and wildlife-vehicle collisions, study design and facilitating the uptake of new methods in movement ecology. Inês is an active member of the ctmm initiative (ctmm is an R package for analyzing animal tracking data as a continuous-time stochastic process) and lead author of the ‘movedesign’ application.