1. BECAT Workshop Tom Meyer Department of Natural Resources and the Environment 16 May 2013

2. Animal Movement Modeling

3. GPS Tracking  Collars on  Mountain lions  Wolves  Grizzly bears  Elk  Deer  Reliable horizontal coordinates  Resource utilization  Home range modeling

4. One collar, real data

5. Our newest team member

6. Moving-Resting Process  NSF Proposal (Mathematical Biology)  Utility-Distribution Modeling Using New Moving/Resting Processes  Pozdynakov, V.; Meyer, T.; Wang, Y.; Yan, J (in review) On Modeling Animal Movements Using Brownian Motion with Measurement Error. Ecology  Yan et al. (in review) A Moving-Resting Process with an Embedded Brownian Motion for Animal Movements. Population Ecology.

7. The discrete UD

9.  Honors boundaries  Is temporally explicit  Gives rise to home range as an emergent concept  Immediately useful for resource utilization studies  Has computational complexity of 7 n so heuristics, data structures, algorithms, and lots of cycles are needed

10.  Tom Meyer  NRE  Thomas.meyer@uconn.edu Thomas.meyer@uconn.edu  6-0145