Monday 12th March |
| 09.15 |
Registration |
| 09.35 |
Conference Opening
Welcome by Professor Maggie Gill (Director, Macaulay Land Use Research Institute). |
Case Studies in the Use of GPS for Tracking Animals
(Chairman: Dr Iain Gordon) |
| 09.45 |
Tracking animals with GPS: the first 10 years. (Invited talk)
Arthur R. Rodgers |
| 10.30 |
Coffee and tea |
| 11.00 |
Use of gps collars to document movement and activity patterns of mule deer, mountain lions and elk in Wyoming, USA . Frederick Lindzey, Hall Sawyer, Charles Anderson and Brad Banulis |
| 11.20 |
Evaluating elk habitat with GPS collars. Mark A. Rumble, Lahkdar Benkobi, Fred Lindzey and R. Scott Gamo |
| 11.40 |
Diurnal and nocturnal habitat use by reintroduced elk in eastern Kentucky, United States. Elizabeth G. Springborn, and David S. Maehr |
| 12.00 |
Using GPS to study the effect of human disturbance on the behaviour of Red deer stags on a highland estate in Scotland. Angela Sibbald, Russell Hooper and Iain Gordon |
| 12.20 |
Introductions to posters |
| 12.50 |
Lunch and poster viewing (authors requested to stand by posters 13.50-14.20) |
| 14.20 |
GPS-tracking and spatial data as a method for studying the use of pasture by reindeer.
Jouko Kumpula and Alfred Colpaert |
| 14.40 |
GPS technology and moose economics. Barbara Zimmermann, Torstein Storaas, Petter Wabakken, Knut Nicolaysen, Hege Gundersen, Harry P. Andreassen |
| 15.00 |
Tea and coffee |
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Workshop
(Chairman: Professor S. Harris) |
| 15.30 |
Discussion - What do we want to use GPS for?
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| 19.30 |
Conference Dinner |
Tuesday 13th March
GPS Practicality and Progress
(Chairman: Dr Glenn Iason) |
| 09.00 |
The Future Role of GPS in Radio-telemetry (invited talk)
Ian Hulbert |
| 09.45 |
Virtual fencing - a prescription range animal management tool for the 21st century.
Dean M. Anderson |
| 10.05 |
Evaluation of GPS-Technology for Tracking Mountain Ungulates: VHF-Transmitters or GPS-Collars? Ruedi Haller and Stephan Imfeld |
| 10.25 |
Coffee and tea |
| 10.55 |
GPS performance in a temperate forest environment. Georges Janeau, Christophe Adrados, Jean Joachim and Dominique Pépin |
| 11.15 |
Measuring diet composition and food intake of moose in the Swedish boreal forest, using GPS and faecal marker technologies. Bob Mayes, Glenn Iason, Neil White and Thomas Palo |
| 11.35 |
A very lightweight flight recorder for homing pigeons based on GPS and examples of tracks. Karen von Hünerbein and Eckhard Rüter |
| 11.55 |
Analysis and application of fine scale movement data. Patrick A. Zollner |
| 12.15 |
Lunch |
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Workshop
(Chairman: Dr Mark Rutter) |
| 13.30 |
Presentations from Sponsors.
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| 15.00 |
Tea and coffee |
| 15.30 |
Discussion - What do we need from GPS technology in the future?
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| 16.45 |
Close of conference |
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Posters
Case Studies in the Use of GPS for Tracking Animals |
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Animal movement and habitat use estimates for moose Alces alces from GPS-tracking and satellite images. Holger Dettki and Lars Edenius |
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Establishing GPS-Technology in the Ungulate Research Project in the Swiss National Park - First Results. Ruedi Haller and Flurin Filli |
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A GPS-assisted approach to measuring predator-prey interactions. Andy Kliskey and Andrea Byrom |
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First tracking results of a free-ranging red deer (Cervus elaphus L.) female tagged with GPS collar in Ardenne (Belgium). Alain M. Licoppe |
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GPS Practicality and Progress |
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Is it necessary to use GPS in differential mode since SA elimination? Georges Janeau, Christophe Adrados and Irène Girard |
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HRE: the Home Range Extension for ArcView. Arthur R. Rodgers and Angus P. Carr |
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High Performance GPS Collars, use of the latest available technology. Robert Schulte and Ulrich Fielitz. |
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