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On August 5th-10th, Simona was at the Ecological Society of America 2018 Annual Meeting, where she presented the latest results from her research on Wood Storks, was involved as a mentor in the SEEDS program, and did a demo on analyzing tracking data at the Data HelpDesk.

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We will be starting our fourth raccoon field session in a few short weeks from the nights of 14 till 18 October. Would you like to volunteer and get valuable experience with wildlife? Contact us!

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A review of movement packages is on the way… We need your help with a survey!

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It was finally time to retrieve the last collar from the April raccoon session, which was carried around by Sleepy Hollow the Raccoon. With the help of the last GPS locations, and the VHF beacon embedded in the collar, we went to a likely spot for the collar. Everything indicated that the collar was near, but we just could not see it.…

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Raccoon season is over! Thirteen raccoons captured this time, and only one recapture, not counting possums, mosquitoes, and one python! Check out all the details!

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Projects

Raccoons

Research project on raccoon home ranges and ecological flows

Wood Storks

Research project on Wood Stork movement ecology.

R

Development of packages and resources for R.

Seabirds

Navigation of seabirds on the vast ocean, and the role of infrasound

People

Current Alummi All

Caitlin Jarvis

Caitlin is a technician working on the Raccoon project.

Simona Picardi

Simona started her PhD on Wood Stork movement ecology in 2015.

Rocío Joo

Rocío is a postdoctoral associate who started in 2018.

Alexis Bruant

Alexis did his Master thesis on Wood Storks reproductive success in 2017.

David Bucklin

David was the Biological Scientist in the lab from 2015 to 2017.

Balázs Dukai

Balázs worked as a Google Summer of Code student in 2016 and 2017.

Mel Moreno

Mel was an Intern working on creating beautiful maps in 2017.

Valeria Guerrero

Valeria was an intern in charge of updating the Raccoon Ecology Database in 2018.

Recent Publications

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(2018). rpostgis: Linking R with a PostGIS Spatial Database. R Journal.

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(2018). GPS telemetry reveals occasional dispersal of federally threatened Wood Stork from the Southeastern US to Mexico. Caribb Nat.

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(2018). Evaluating GPS biologging technology for studying spatial ecology of large constricting snakes. Anim. Biotelem..

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(2017). Life histories and conservation of long-lived reptiles, an illustration with the American Crocodile (Crocodylus acutus). J. Animal Ecol..

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(2017). Role of accelerated developmental pathway and limited nurturing capacity on soldier developmental instability in subterranean termite incipient colonies. Insectes Soc..

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Recent Talks

Endangered Species of Florida in the Face of Climate Change
Sep 18, 2018 11:00 AM
NatureScape Meeting: Is Climate Changing More Rapidly Than Species Can Adapt?
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Raccoons in human-dominated landscapes of North America
Aug 10, 2018 8:30 AM
103rd Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting 2018
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Partial Migration by a Large Wading Bird in a Highly Unpredictable Environment
Aug 9, 2018 4:40 PM
103rd Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting 2018
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Metrics for describing dyadic joint movement
Jul 3, 2018 10:00 AM
6th International Statistical Ecology Conference (ISEC)
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HMM Workshop
May 31, 2018 9:00 AM
Workshop on the MomentuHMM package in R for Hidden Markov models
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