Discovering Relationships between Climate and Animal Migration with New Tools for Linking Animal Movement Tracks, Weather and Land Surface Data Gil Bohrer, Roland Kays, Jiawei Han, David Brandes, David Doulas, Steve Garrity, Martin Wekelski

What to do with track data?

Graphic data editing tool

Plotting tools – individual/species/study highlight

Additional data support – physiological sensors, accelerometers, environmental sensors

Movement is tightly linked with the environment – along the path, and the path not taken

Environmental- Data Automated Track-Annotation System Env-DATA Provides easy-to-use coupling between movement data and remote sensing, weather and other environmental and human global datasets

Track annotation – linking environmental data to observed track points Albatross movement to Galapagos

Datasets Data SourceTemporal Coverage Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) NASA – present AVHRR land NDVI NASA –present, 1982–present NCEP Global Reanalysis 2 NOAA / 1948–present North American Regional Reanalysis NOAA –present ECMWF Reanalysis ECMWF –present MODIS Land NASA MODIS Ocean NASA MODIS Snow NASA Ocean productivity ASTER GDEM USGS SRTM NASA 1/ GlobCover ESA Socioeconomic data Ocean Surface Current Reanalysis (OSCAR) NASA ETOPO1 NASA

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Data exploration tools Annotated track dataData over a gridded region

Track annotation – linking environmental data to observed track points Time cube

Around GalapagosPeruvian Coast Available ocean productivity Used ocean productivity Data Analysis tools Distribution of used conditions vs. available conditions

Thermal uplift Derived Variables