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• 2025 Resource Selection Function Workshop

  • Start
    21 May 2025
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    09:00 (PDT)
  • End
    23 May 2025
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    12:00 (PDT)
  • Location
    Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, Cascade Hall Room 118
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  REGISTRATION IS LIMITED TO 24 ATTENDEES

  WORKSHOP TOPICS WILL INCLUDE:

  • Background on theory of resource
  • selection analysis
  • Sampling and study design
  • Categorical, continuous, and count-based approaches to quantifying
  • resource use
  • Mixed-effects modeling
  • Model selection and inference
  • Predictive mapping
    

    Snacks and coffee provided, lunch on your own

    
    

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• 2025 ORTWS Field Skills Workshop

  • Start
    23 May 2025
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    16:00 (PDT)
  • End
    26 May 2025
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    14:30 (PDT)
  • Location
    Northern Great Basin Experimental Range, Riley, Oregon - https://maps.app.goo.gl/ZG2gCCmW5gXXqt1x6
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  REGISTRATION IS LIMITED TO 45 ATTENDEES

  WORKSHOP TOPICS WILL INCLUDE:

  • Day 1: Friday: Arrive in evening (4pm - 5:30pm), set up camp
  • Day 2: Saturday: Necropsy, Point Counts, Passive Monitoring: tracking, camera traps, acoustic recorders, vehicle safety
  • Day 3 Sunday: 4WD driving, telemetry and orienteering, getting unstuck, small mammal trapping
  • Day 4 Monday: Small mammal trapping, pollinator and vegetation sampling, wildland fire safety

  Registration costs include meals, and while we can accommodate vegetarian preference, we cannot safely accommodate food allergies or other dietary restrictions. If you have a dietary restriction other than vegetarian, you will need to bring your own food, please reach out to Vanessaschroeder@ortws.org about a reduced registration cost.

  Please bring personal camping supplies and field clothes. 

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• Continuous-Time Movement Modeling Workshop

  • Start
    21 Jul 2025
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    08:30 (PDT)
  • End
    25 Jul 2025
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    16:30 (PDT)
  • Location
    Oregon State University, Peavy Forestry Science Center (PFSC), 3100 SW Jefferson Way, Corvallis, OR 97333, Room 125
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   WORKSHOP REGISTRATION IS LIMITED TO 38 ATTENDEES

  LEARNING OUTCOMES INCLUDE:

  ●      Import data, perform visual diagnostics, and detect/remove outliers

  ●      Fit movement models via maximum likelihood

  ●      Perform AIC-based selection of movement models

  ●      Conduct home-range analysis using autocorrelated kernel density estimation

  ●      Quantify home-range overlap with the Bhattacharya coefficient

  ●      Estimate habitat suitability with integrated resource selection functions

  ●      Perform scale-free estimation of speed and distance traveled

  ●      Perform population-level analyses using hierarchical models

  ●      Quantify and model telemetry error

  ●      Estimate trajectories and occurrence areas via time-series Kriging

  ●      Simulate trajectories conditional on tracking data

  ●      Link questions, analyses, and studying design

  WORKSHOP REQUIREMENTS: 

  • Participants will be expected to have a laptop on hand with current versions of R, RStudio, ctmm (available via CRAN), and access to MoveApps

  Coffee, tea, and snacks will be provided.

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