Workshop Collaboration on e-Infrastructures for Biotelemetry Research – Present State & Future Opportunities

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Logistics

Dates & Location

  • November 3rd 10:00 - November 4th 16:00
    • room available from 10:00 (workshop starts at 11:30)
  • Lecture hall Ratatosk, SLU Ultuna Campus, Uppsala, Sweden

The workshop will be held in beautiful surroundings at SLU Ultuna, a few miles outside of Uppsala. The main venue is the new Veterinärmedicinskt och Husdjursvetenskapligt centrum (VHC), lecture hall Ratatosk. A number of different busses (1, 12, 20, 21, 101, 115, 804 and more) leave from Stora Torget and Dragarbrunnsgatan, in close connection to Uppsala Central Station (railway and bus terminal). The bus stop at Ultuna closest to the VHC is called Campus Ultuna. For fares and schedules please consult http://www.ul.se/en/.

To find the lecture hall please follow the signs to ‘NeIC workshop’. The lecture room will be equipped with a video projector and a computer running Adobe pdf and Microsoft Powerpoint 2010/2013. An EDUROAM wireless connection is available.

Registration

Please register here before August 15th 2015.

Organizers

  • Holger Dettki (UC-WRAM, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)
  • Thomas Röblitz (NeIC Environmental Sciences area coordinator)

In case of any questions, don't hesitate to contact Thomas Röblitz at thomas.roblitz@usit.uio.no


Workshop Introduction, Objectives & Preparation

Collaboration on e-Infrastructures for Biotelemetry Research – Present State & Future Opportunities

Advances in biotelemetry sensor technology for monitoring animals remotely have resulted in a substantial increase in data volume. A crucial limitation for efficient use of the data in the wider society is that in many cases basic research still lacks the e-infrastructure to collect, store and efficiently share these data. Because of the high costs in deploying tracking devices and bio-sensors to wildlife, often only small numbers of sensors are used within a single project. Hence, to realize the full potential of the locally collected data, researchers must be able to share their data and collaborate with the global research community. The goal of the workshop is three-fold:

  • creating an inventory of biotelemetry data management routines and procedures, existing e-Infrastructure tools and services in use, or being developed within the biotelemetry research community,
  • discussing plans / needs for a common e-Infrastructure to support collaboration on the Nordic level,
  • defining activities on the Nordic level to develop services enabling collaboration (such activities may be co-funded by NeIC, national e-Infrastructure providers and the community)

The workshop builds on the results of the "NeIC ENV Survey on the Use of e-Infrastructures for Biotelemetry Research Collaboration" (spring 2015), and is co-hosted by NeIC and the Umeå Center for Wireless Remote Animal Monitoring (UC-WRAM), the national Swedish e-Infrastructure for biotelemetry sensor data. NeIC is an organization that facilitates the collaboration on the development and deployment of e-Infrastructure for topics of common Nordic interest.

Preparation

A preliminary analysis of the survey revealed the following four topics of high interest:

  1. Training
  2. Collaboration
  3. Standards & approaches to support collaboration
  4. Security / data access restrictions

Presentations should relate to these topics and others if applicable. The workshop's focus is on e-Infrastructures that is what methods/approaches do you use for managing and processing biotelemetry sensor data. Each participant (presenter or not) should bring 5 key challenges/opportunities with regard to e-Infrastructures in their research. A challenge/opportunity could be phrased like a user story:

As a data provider
I want to upload data to a public repository
such that every scientist has access at anytime from anywhere.

Replace data provider with any other role that is relevant for you (developer, researcher, ...). Replace upload data ... with any other goal/desire. Replace every scientist ... with any other benefit. (Note, the benefit is optional.)

Schedule (tentative)

  • session chair in parentheses

Day 1, Tuesday, November 3rd 2015

11:30 - 12:30 Light lunch

12:30 - 13:45 Session 1 (Thomas Röblitz): Introduction

  • 12:30 - 13:00 Thomas Röblitz // Introduction (participants, workshop goals, schedule, NeIC)
  • 13:00 - 13:45 Tomasz Rajtar: PSNC Experiences In Remote Environmental Observations

13:45 - 14:15 coffee break

14:15 - 16:15 Session 2 (Bram van Moorter): System concepts & community presentations

  • 6-9 presentations, max 10'-15' each
  • bring 5 key messages on cards / post-its, which will be clustered by the plenum
  • 14:15 - 14:30 Frank Hanssen: Dyreposisjoner
  • 14:30 - 14:45 Bram van Moorter: Spatial database for Animal Movement (SAM)
  • 14:45 - 15:00 Ferdinando Urbano: Eurodeer
  • 15:00 - 15:15 Ivan Clegg: WRAM
  • leg stretcher
  • 15:15 - 15:30 Oskar Kindvall: The Analysis Portal and its underlying web service oriented infrastructure
  • 15:30 - 15:45 Hans-Henrik Fuxelius: Database infrastructure
  • 15:45 - 16:00 Henrike Hensel: Handling of GPS data at Grimsö Wildlife Research Station
  • 16:00 - 16:15 Sarah Davidson: Movebank

16:15 - 16:45 coffee break

16:45 - 18:15 Session 3 (Ferdinando Urbano): Community presentations, survey results & clustering key messages

  • 3-6 presentations, max 10'-15' each
  • bring 5 key messages on cards / post-its, which will be clustered by the plenum
  • 17:00 - 17:15 Katja Holmala: Mammal telemetry monitoring and a web-portal for information sharing in Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)
  • 17:15 - 17:30 Wiebke Neumann: Using biotelemetry data
  • 17:30 - 17:45 Erling L. Meisingset: Download of GPS data from red deer - practise and limitations
  • 17:45 - 18:00 Andrea Friebe: Scandinavian Bear Project
  • 18:00 - 18:30 Holger Dettki: Survey results & clustering of key messages brought up in session 2 & 3

19:30 - 23:59 Joint dinner at Peppar Peppar (pepparpeppar.se)


Day 2, Wednesday, November 4th 2015

09:00 - 09:30 Coffee start with a presentation

  • 09:15 - 09:30 Hans-Henrik Fuxelius: Database infrastructure

09:30 - 11:30 Session 4 (Frank Hanssen): Group work

  • split into groups of about 6 people each
  • discuss key challenges in clustered areas, prepare presentations of results in plenum
  • group A: Wiebke Neumann (chair), Andrea Friebe, Erling L. Meisingset, Oskar Kindvall, Holger Dettki
  • group B: Katja Holmala (chair), Ferdinando Urbano, Sven Brunberg, Ivan Clegg, Frank Hanssen
  • group C: Anders Kagervall (chair), Timothy Giles, Bram van Moorter, Henrike Hensel, Thomas Röblitz

11:30 - 12:30 lunch

12:30 - 14:00 Session 5 (Oskar Kindvall): Results from group work

  • presentations, discussions, summary

14:00 - 14:30 coffee break // Important: collecting key passes!

14:30 - 16:00 Session 6 (Holger Dettki & Thomas Röblitz): Planning follow-up activities and next steps

  • for example, setting up teams / working groups to follow-up on prioritized activities
  • initiating preparation of more technical workshop (hackathon, plugfest, ...)

16:00 Workshop ends

Participants

  • Sweden
    • Hans-Henrik Fuxelius (Anna Skarin, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)
    • Anders Kagervall, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Aquatic Resources
    • Sven Brunberg, Scandinavian Brown Bear Project
    • Wiebke Neumann, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    • Oskar Kindvall, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Swedish Species information Centre
    • Ivan Clegg, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, WRAM
    • Timothy Giles, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, WRAM
    • Holger Dettki, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, WRAM
    • Henrike Hensel, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Wildlife ecology
    • Andrea Friebe, Scandinavian Brown Bear Project
  • Norway
    • Bram van Moorter, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
    • Erling L. Meisingset, Norwegian Institute for Bioeconomy Research
    • Frank Hanssen, GIS analyst & coordinator, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
  • Finland
    • Katja Holmala, Natural Resources Institute Finland
    • (Antti Paasivaara, Natural Resources Institute Finland)
  • Eurodeer
    • Ferdinando Urbano
  • Movebank
    • Sarah Davidson
  • NeIC
    • Thomas Röblitz, Environmental Sciences area coordinator

Practical Information

Costs

  • Participation in the workshop is free of charge.
  • Travel and accommodation are arranged and paid* by the participant.

(*) Please get in contact with the organizers if you lack funding for traveling.

Travel to Uppsala

Stockholm-Arlanda Airport to Uppsala

  • Bus 801 leaves Arlanda Airport twice an hour from 5 am to midnight. For fares and schedules please consult http://www.ul.se/en/
  • Trains depart regularly from Arlanda Sky City to Uppsala railway and bus terminal. For fares and schedules please consult http://www.ul.se/en/Travel/Upptaget/
  • Taxi from Arlanda to Uppsala costs approximately 450 SEK. Prebook a taxi on http://www.uppsalataxi.se or by phone +46 18 100 000.

Stockholm-Bromma Airport to Uppsala

Airport coaches to/from Bromma Airport are coordinated with the arrival and departure of flights. From Bromma to Stockholm City Terminal takes approximately 15 minutes.

Stockholm to Uppsala

Coaches and trains leave Stockholm City Terminal/Centralstationen for Uppsala railway and bus terminal on a regular basis. For an up to date schedule please consult http://www.sj.se

Map over Ultuna

Here you find more information about travel to Ultuna Campus and maps

Accommodation

In Uppsala there are a number of hotels in different price classes. Some examples are given below. You will find more by searching the internet for 'Hotel AND Uppsala'. We recommend you to arrange your accommodation as soon as possible, as there are many conferences taking place in Uppsala during this week.

Presentations

  • Katja Holmala, Natural Resources Institute Finland
    • Title: Mammal telemetry monitoring and a web-portal for information sharing in Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)
  • Wiebke Neumann, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    • Title: Using biotelemetry data
  • Oskar Kindvall, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Swedish Species information Centre
    • Title: The Analysis Portal and its underlying web service oriented infrastructure
  • Hans-Henrik Fuxelius
    • Title: Database infrastructure
  • Erling L. Meisingset, Norwegian Institute for Bioeconomy Research
    • Title: Download of GPS data from red deer - practise and limitations
  • Bram van Moorter, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
    • Title: TBA
  • Ferdinando Urbano, Eurodeer
    • Title: Eurodeer
  • Sarah Davidson, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Radolfzell, Germany
    • Title: Movebank
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