[R-sig-eco] FINAL CALL - Aquatic Acoustic Telemetry Data Analysis

Fri Jan 11 14:11:17 CET 2019

Aquatic Acoustic Telemetry Data Analysis (ATDA01)

https://www.prstatistics.com/course/aquatic-acoustic-telemetry-data-analysis-atda01/

This course will be delivered by VEMCO (a leading company in the field of
aquatic acoustic telemetry) in Glasgow City Centre form the  28th January -
1 February 2019.

Course Overview:
Acoustic telemetry has become increasingly popular as a method of choice
for monitoring the movements and behaviour of aquatic animals globally.
Increasingly smaller tags along with improvements in battery technology
have allowed for tagging a wide variety of species and life stages,
enabling monitoring of individuals as small as salmon smolts and as large
as whale sharks for periods from 30 days to 10 years.  Receiver technology
also continues to evolve and increasingly allows for data to be collected
at finer spatial and temporal scales than ever before.  In addition, with
more and more acoustic diagnostics information available telemetry datasets
are becoming richer, allowing more detailed analyses of system performance
over time and more robust interpretation of animal detection data.

In this course you will learn about the different types of Vemco acoustic
telemetry technology and their applicability for use in different study
environments and in answering a variety of research questions.  Advantages
and limitations of the different types of equipment will be discussed,
along with resulting study design considerations such as hardware selection
and tag programming considerations.

The planning and testing phases of any acoustic telemetry study are
critical to success, and you will learn about the importance of testing the
suitability of your environment for acoustic telemetry, testing your array
once it is deployed, and monitoring your system performance throughout the
duration of your study.  We will analyze an example range test dataset and
discuss the implications of range test results on array design.  You will
also learn how to test your study deployment in the field and what metrics
are best used to determine whether the array is operating as planned.
Finally, because interpretation of acoustic telemetry data and inferring
animal behaviour from these data is often confounded by array performance
questions, this course will teach you techniques for assessing system
performance to aid in the correct interpretation of animal detection data.

Since telemetry datasets are growing larger all of the time, data
management is becoming increasingly challenging.  During this course you
will learn to perform basic quality assurance on your data (removal of
false detections, time correction of detection data) and basic filtering
techniques (identifying residency events, removing duplicate detections)
for large datasets.

Finally, this course will include extensive discussion of the proper design
and logistics of fine-scale positioning studies and will provide an
overview of the different types of analyses that are commonly performed
with positional data.  You will also have the opportunity to discuss your
own telemetry studies with the experts during a Q&A session on the final
day of the course.  Bring your own data and your questions!

Course Programme
Monday 28th – Classes from 09:30 to 17:30
Lecture 1
1) Introduction to Acoustic Telemetry
Acoustic vs radio, satellite, PIT tags
History of acoustic telemetry
Comparison of acoustic technologies from different manufacturers
2) How Vemco acoustics work
Continuous vs coded vs HR (High Residence) transmission systems
Pinger tags vs sensor tags
3) Vemco Equipment Overview
Applications of 69 kHz line
Applications of 180 kHz line
Applications of HR (High Residence) technology
4) Designing a Successful Study
Hardware Selection
Tag Programming Considerations
Range Testing
Using Sentinel Tags
5) Vemco Equipment Demo
PPM vs HR coding systems
Surgery techniques

Tuesday 29th – Classes from 09:30 to 17:30
Lecture 2
1) Preparing for Deployment
Preparing your receivers
Initialization tips
Setting up built-in transmitters
2) System performance considerations
Quiet vs noisy locations
Thermoclines
River flow considerations
Mooring design and receiver attachment
3) Testing your deployment
Using transponding data (includes transponding demonstration)
Using offloaded test data/VUE (includes demonstration)
Important considerations during testing
Practical 1
4) Case Study 1 – River migration study (traditional PPM coding example)
Study Design
Range test analysis example
Determining receiver spacing
Tag Programming

Wednesday 30th – Classes from 09:30 to 17:30
1) Practical 2
Data Management (using Case Study 1 data or other example datasets
Assigning stations in VUE
Time Correction
Identifying false detections
Using VUE’s FDA tool
Marking questionable detections in your exported data
2) Filtering your data
Building filters in VUE
Identifying residency events
What to do with duplicate detections
Sensor Tag Data
Bringing in sensor metadata (.VXM) files
How to handle data from sensor tags with multiple IDs
System Performance Assessment using R1
Using detection data
Using ping data
Using receiver sensor / diagnostic data
Data Analysis
Calculating gate detection probabilities
Calculating swimming speeds
Animating your animal movement data

Thursday 31st – Classes from 09:30 to 17:30
Lecture 3
1) Introduction to High Residence technology
VPS (PPM and HR)
Theory (how VPS works)
Special deployment considerations
Special considerations for testing your array
Practical 4
2) Case Study 2 – VPS o Study Design
Range test analysis example  Determining receiver spacing
Tag Programming
Testing the array – how do I know my VPS will work?
Data Analysis
Visualizing animal position data
Home Range example

Friday 1st – Classes from 09:30 to 16:00
Practical 5
1) Case Study 3
VPS using High Residence (HR) technology
Lecture 4
2) Summary – what have we learned?
Challenges specific to analyzing telemetry data
Practical 6
3) Discuss your work!
Opportunity for course participants to discuss their work with the group
and seek advice

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2019 course diary

1. January 21st – 25th 2019
STATISTICAL MODELLING OF TIME-TO-EVENT DATA USING SURVIVAL ANALYSIS: AN
INTRODUCTION FOR ANIMAL BEHAVIOURISTS, ECOLOGISTS AND EVOLUTIONARY
BIOLOGISTS (TTED01)
Glasgow, Scotland, Dr. Will Hoppitt
https://www.psstatistics.com/course/statistical-modelling-of-time-to-event-data-using-survival-analysis-tted01/

2. January 21st – 25th 2019
ADVANCING IN STATISTICAL MODELLING USING R (ADVR08)
Glasgow, Scotland, Dr. Luc Bussiere, Dr. Tom Houslay
http://www.prstatistics.com/course/advancing-statistical-modelling-using-r-advr08/

3. January 28th–  February 1st 2019
AQUATIC ACOUSTIC TELEMETRY DATA ANALYSIS AND SURVEY DESIGN
Glasgow, Scotland, VEMCO staff and affiliates
https://www.prstatistics.com/course/aquatic-acoustic-telemetry-data-analysis-atda01/

4. February 4th – 8th 2019
DESIGNING RELIABLE AND EFFICIENT EXPERIMENTS FOR SOCIAL SCIENCES (DRES01)
Glasgow, Scotland, Dr. Daniel Lakens
https://www.psstatistics.com/course/designing-reliable-and-effecient-experiments-for-social-sciences-dres01/

5. 25th February – 1st March 2019
MOVEMENT ECOLOGY (MOVE02)
Margam Discovery Centre, Wales, Dr. Luca Borger, Prof. Ronny Wilson, Dr
Jonathan Potts
https://www.prstatistics.com/course/movement-ecology-move02/

6. March 4th – 8th 2019
BIOACOUSTICS FOR ECOLOGISTS: HARDWARE, SURVEY DESIGN AND DATA ANALYSIS
(BIAC01)
Glasgow, Scotland, Dr. Paul Howden-Leach
https://www.prstatistics.com/course/bioacoustics-for-ecologists-hardware-survey-design-and-data-analysis-biac01/

7. March 11th – 15th  2019
ECOLOGICAL NICHE MODELLING USING R (ENMR03)
Glasgow, Scotland, Dr. Neftali Sillero
http://www.prstatistics.com/course/ecological-niche-modelling-using-r-enmr03/

8. March 18th – 22nd 2019
INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS AND R FOR EVERYONE (IRFE01)
Crete, GREECE, Dr Aristides (Aris) Moustakas
https://www.prstatistics.com/course/introduction-to-statistics-and-r-for-anyone-irfe01/

9. March 25th – 29th 2019
LANDSCAPE GENETIC DATA ANALYSIS USING R (LNDG03)
Glasgow, Scotland, Prof. Rodney Dyer
http://www.prstatistics.com/course/landscape-genetic-data-analysis-using-r-lndg03/

10. April 1st – 5th 2019
INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICAL MODELLING FOR PSYCHOLOGISTS USING R (IPSY01)
Glasgow, Scotland, Dr. Dale Barr, Dr Luc Bussierre
http://www.psstatistics.com/course/introduction-to-statistics-using-r-for-psychologists-ipsy02/

11. April 1st – 5th 2019
INDIVIDUAL BASED MODELS FOR ECOLOGSITS (IBME01)
Glasgow, Scotland, Dr Aristides (Aris) Moustakas
https://www.prstatistics.com/course/individual-based-models-using-r-and-netlogo-ibms01/

12. April 8th – 12th 2019
MACHINE LEARNING (MLUR01)
Glasgow, Scotland, Dr Aristides (Aris) Moustakas
https://www.prstatistics.com/course/machine-learning-using-r-mlur01/

13. April 15th – 19th 2019
INTRODUCTION TO Q GIS AND SPATIAL ANALYSIS WITH R (QGSE01)
Glasgow, Scotland, Dr Luca Nelli
https://www.prstatistics.com/course/introduction-to-gis-and-spatial-analyses-with-r-gisr01/

14. April 22nd – 26th 2019
GIS USING R (GISR)
Glasgow, Scotland, Dr Luca Nelli
https://www.prstatistics.com/course/gis-using-r-gisr01/

15. April 29th – May 3rd 2019
COMPARATIVE GENOMICS (CMGN01)
Glasgow, Scotland, Dr. Fritz Sedlazeck, Dr. Matthias Weissensteiner
https://www.prinformatics.com/course/comparative-genomics-cmgn01/

16. May 6th – 10th 2019
INTRODUCTION TO MULTILEVEL MODELS (MIXED/HIERARCHICAL) FOR PSYCHOLOGISTS
Myuna Bay, AUSTRALIA,  Dr. Sean Murphy
https://www.psstatistics.com/course/an-exploration-of-r-for-psychologists-from-data-handling-to-multilevel-modelling-xplr01/

17. May 16th – 18th 2019 (please note this a 3-day course from Thursday to
Saturday)
AQUATIC MOVEMENT ECOLOGY USING R (AMER01)
Myuna Bay, AUSTRALIA, Dr. Ross Dwyer, Dr. Vinay Udyawer
Link to follow

18. May 16th – 19th 2019 (please note this a 4-day course from Thursday to
Monday)
INTRODUCTION TO R FOR EVERYONE (IRFE02)
Myuna Bay, AUSTRALIA, Dr Aristides (Aris) Moustakas
https://www.prstatistics.com/course/introduction-to-statistics-and-r-for-anyone-irfe02/

19. May 20th – 24th 2019
MODEL BASE MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF ABUNDANCE DATA USING R (MBMV03)
Myuna Bay, AUSTRALIA, Prof. David Warton
https://www.prstatistics.com/course/model-based-multivariate-analysis-of-abundance-data-using-r-mbmv03/

20. May 21st – 24th 2019
STATISTICAL TOOLKIT FOR ECOLOGISTS (STKE01)
Myuna Bay, AUSTRALIA, Dr Aristides (Aris) Moustakas
https://www.prstatistics.com/course/statistical-toolkit-for-ecologists-stke01/

21. June 10th – 14th 2019
STABLE ISOTOPE MIXING MODELS USING SIAR, SIBER AND MIXSIAR (SIMM04)
Glasgow, Scotland, Dr. Andrew Parnell, Dr. Andrew Jackson
www.prstatistics.com/course/stable-isotope-mixing-models-using-r-simm04/

22. June 17th – 21st 2019
SPATIAL MODELLING AND ANALYSIS OF ADAPTIVE GENOMIC VARIATION (SPGN01)
Glasgow, Dr. Matt Fitzpatrick
https://www.prstatistics.com/course/spatial-modelling-and-analysis-of-adaptive-genomic-variation-spgn01/

23. June 17th – 21st 2019
INTRODUCTION TO PYTHON FOR BIOLOGISTS (IPYB06)
Glasgow, Scotland, Dr. Martin Jones
http://www.prinformatics.com/course/introduction-to-python-for-biologists-ipyb06/

24. June 24th – 28th 2019
ADVANCED PYTHON FOR BIOLOGISTS (APYB03)
Glasgow, Scotland, Dr. Martin Jones
www.prinformatics.com/course/advanced-python-biologists-apyb03/

25. July 1st – 5th 2019
DATA VISUALISATION AND MANIPULATION USING PYTHON (DVMP01)
Glasgow, Scotland, Dr. Martin Jones
http://www.prinformatics.com/course/data-visualisation-and-manipulation-using-python-dvmp01/

26. July 29th – August 2nd 2019
INTRODUCTION TO SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF ECOLOGICAL DATA USING R (ISPE01)
Glasgow, Scotland, Dr. Jakub Nowosad
https://www.prstatistics.com/course/introduction-to-spatial-analysis-of-ecological-data-using-r-ispe01/

27. September 16th – 20th 2019
R PACKAGE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT AND REPRODUCIBLE DATA SCIENCE FOR
BIOLOGISTS (RPKG01)
Glasgow, Scotland, Dr. Cory Merow, Dr. Andy Rominger
https://www.prstatistics.com/course/r-package-design-and-development-and-reproducible-data-science-for-biologists-rpkg01/

28. September 30th – October 4th 2019
GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRICS USING R (GMMR02)
Glasgow, Scotland, Prof. Dean Adams, Prof. Michael Collyer, Dr. Antigoni
Kaliontzopoulou
http://www.prstatistics.com/course/geometric-morphometrics-using-r-gmmr02/

29. October 7th – 11th 2019
CONSERVATION PLANNING USING PRIORITIZR : FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE (PRTZ01)
Crete, GREECE, Dr Richard Schuster and Nina Morell
https://www.prstatistics.com/course/conservation-planning-using-prioritizr-from-theory-to-practice-prtz01/

30. October 21st – 25th 2019
A COMPLETE GUIDE TO MIXED MODELS (INCLUDING TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL
AUTOCORRELATION) (MMTS01)
Crete, GREECE, Dr Aristides (Aris) Moustakas
https://www.prstatistics.com/course/a-complete-guide-to-mixed-models-including-temporal-and-spatial-autocorrelation-mmts01/

31. November 18th – 22nd 2019
INTRODUCTION TO STRUCTURED POPULATION MODELS AND DEMOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION
MODELS (IIPM01)
Crete, GREECE, Dr Cory Merow
https://www.prstatistics.com/course/introduction-to-structured-population-models-and-demographic-distribution-models-iipm01/

32. November 25th – 29th 2019
ADVANCED RANGE, NICHE, AND DISTRIBUTION MODELING (ASDM01)
Crete, GREECE, Dr Cory Merow
https://www.prstatistics.com/course/advanced-range-niche-and-distribution-modeling-asdm01/

-- 
Oliver Hooker PhD.
PR statistics

2018 publications -
Alternative routes to piscivory: Contrasting growth trajectories in brown
trout (Salmo trutta) ecotypes exhibiting contrasting life history
strategies. Ecology of Freshwater Fish.

Phenotypic and resource use partitioning amongst sympatric lacustrine brown
trout, Salmo trutta. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. DOI
10.1093/biolinnean/bly032

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