Workshop Program

All timings are reported according to Seattle timezone.

08:00-09:00 : Breakfast

09:00-09:10 : Opening remarks: why HANIMOB?

09:10-9:55 : Keynote: Kaitlyn Gaynor. University of British Columbia, USA
Towards a more complex understanding of the impacts of humans on animal ecology
Abstract: In this talk, Dr. Kaitlyn Gaynor will share how ecologists are attempting to better understand the role of human disturbance in ecosystems, with an emphasis on behavioral responses of animals to human presence. She will discuss the simplifying assumptions that researchers often make when characterizing spatiotemporal patterns of human activity, and explore opportunities for research that better links human and animal mobility to inform both science and conservation.

09:55-10:15 : Bridging human mobility to animal activity: When humans are away, bears will play
Benjamin Robira, Fondazione Edmund Mach, Italy; Andrea Corradini, Fondazione Edmund Mach, Italy; Federico Ossi, Fondazione Edmund Mach, Italy; Francesca Cagnacci, Fondazione Edmund Mach, Italy

10:15-10:45 : Coffee break

10:45-11:05 : Learning Fishing Information from AIS Data
Gerard Pons Recasens, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, BarcelonaTech, Spain; Besim Bilalli, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, BarcelonaTech, Spain; Alberto Abelló, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, BarcelonaTech, Spain; Santiago Blanco Sánchez, Iberconsa, Vigo, Spain

11:05-11:25 :Spatially weighted structural similarity index: A multiscale comparison tool for diverse sources of mobility data
Jessica Embury, Department of Geography, San Diego State University, CA, USA; Atsushi Nara, Department of Geography, San Diego State University, CA, USA; Chanwoo Jin, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Northwest Missouri State Univ.,MO, USA

11:25-11:45 : Human Mobility-Based Synthetic Social Network Generation
Ketevan Gallagher, Thomas Jefferson High School, Virginia, USA; Srihan Kotnana, Westfield High School, Virginia, USA; Sachin Satishkumar, Thomas Jefferson High School, Virginia, USA; Kheya Siripurapu, Chantilly High School, Virginia, USA; Justin Elarde, George Mason University, Virginia, USA; Taylor Anderson, George Mason University, Virginia, USA; Andreas Züfle, George Mason University, Virginia, USA; Hamdi Kavak, George Mason University, Virginia, USA

11:45-12:05 : Adaptive Visualization of Tourists’ Preferred Spots and Streets Using Trajectory Articulation
Iori Sasaki, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Akita University, Japan; Masatoshi Arikawa, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Akita University, Japan; Min Lu, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Akita University, Japan

12:05 : Wrap up discussion – Future Direction and Collaboration Opportunities
opening talk: Towards a Dynamic Human Footprint for assessing human-wildlife interactions
Short abstract: In this talk we propose a conceptual framework for developing a ‘Dynamic Human Footprint’, providing a key link between static and dynamic anthropogenic stressors and ecological impacts. This Dynamic Human Footprint integrates a range of metrics to acknowledge the time-varying nature of human activities and to enable scale-appropriate assessments of their impacts on wildlife behavior, demography, and distributions.
By: Diego Ellis Soto
Diego is a fifth year PhD candidate in Ecology & Evolutionary at Yale University and a NASA future investigator. His dissertation aims to study how wildlife respond to sudden changes in anthropogenic and environmental conditions, such as alterations of wildlife movements occurring during the COVID-19 Pandemic, or extreme weather events.

Keynote

Dr. Kaitlyn Gaynor is an ecologist and conservation scientist, and is interested in better understanding the socio-ecological dynamics of ecosystems to promote human-wildlife coexistence. Her research draws on behavioral and community ecology to elucidate the roles that humans play in ecological systems, and includes field studies in the United States and Mozambique as well as regional and global synthetic analyses of animal movement and distribution. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Zoology and Botany and a member of the Interdisciplinary Biodiversity Solutions Collaboratory at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.