Previous updates (2002-2004)

 

  

Sept 2007
 Major advancements:
- Movebank got funded by NSF

- NSF funds an ATPM workshop

- ARTS publications (soon to be updated pub list)

www.movebank.org
April 2006
 The San Diego Supercomputer Center and the ARTS team prepare a proposal for a global "MoveBank"		 PDF file of MoveBank
April 2006
 The San Diego Supercomputer Center and the ARTS team prepare a proposal for a global "MoveBank"		 PDF file of MoveBank
April 2006
 CTFS and ARTS plan joint meeting to ease data access and discuss future collaborations on a "Global observatory" of tropical forest ecology

Roland Kays publishes article on "Bobby, the King of Ocelots" (PDF here)

March 2006
 Another exciting predation event captured 		Roland Kays films sloth carcass: vultures and ocelots scavenge Movie: Sloth eaten by vultures during daytime
(5 MB)

Movie: Sloth eaten by ocelots during night
(20 MB)

March 2006
 Princeton undergrad students conduct research on sloth ecology with the help of tree climber Bryson Voirin

Princeton students and Martin Wikelski

Bryson catching a sloth in a tree

A sloth gets killed by an owl. ARTS detected this event

 
January 2006
 Dr. Tony Fountain, San Diego Supercomputer Center, visits ARTS on BCI, for discussions on a collaboration for MoveBank

Tony Fountain and Martin Wikelski at Big Tree on BCI

January 2006
 Sloth research is under way

Two proud researchers with freshly collected sloth poop

New analysis tools are established by Kevin Sallee http://160.111.238.241/~ecoss/
click on 'bearings, charts, maps, google earth' on the top bar

November 2005
 National Geographic magazine publishes article on ocelot research

Download pdf (3Mb)

 

 

 

 

Christian Gelpke starts catching large canopy birds

September 2005
 Roland Kays visits BCI, analyzes data and gives Bambi-talk on BCI

 

August 2005
 Look for some major updates in the performance and technology section !

 

May 2005
 Some strange interference starts showing up on the ARTS system;

System engineers detect that a newly installed TV channel spills into the ARTS frequencies

Map of the Panama canal region with ARTS reception segments overlaid. Not the white oval is the new TV tower location.

April 2005 Finally! A new data base

The transfer of data to a new, much expanded and revised data base if finished. This data base is now the final data base. At present, 15 Million individual data point are entered, and more are coming by the second.

 
March 2005
Princeton field course conducts activity measurements on animals for ARTS

 

Princeton undergraduate students entering observational data from field tracking.
February 2005
Data visualization for animal location data with LOAS starts to work

 
January, March and June 2005
Martin Wikelski participates in the NEON design consortium meeting in the sensor and sensor networks meeting

Exciting news !
Organism tracking 'ARTS-style' is part of the current NEON design

see also NEON write-up in NY-times