PROGRAMME

MONDAY 13 June

Chair: Martin Biuw

08:45 Opening Remarks
09:05 M. A. Fedak - Plenary talk: Ecologging: using biologgers to link behaviour from mobile marine animals to their dynamic environment
09:40 C. R. McMahon et al. - Getting it right: how accurate temperatures from animal borne sensors can contribute to global climate monitoring
10:00 A. Takahashi et al. - Thermocline shapes diving behaviour of thick-billed murres

10:20 COFFEE BREAK

Chair: Henri Weimerskirsch

11:00 D. Costa et al. - Tagging of Pacific pelagics: using electronic tags to discover hotspots in the pelagic realm
11:20 D. Pinaud et al. - Using first-passage time analysis to assess the search scales of satellite-tracked seabirds
11:40 F. Bailleul et al. - Foraging in southern ocean by southern elephant seals: importance of Antarctic sea ice
12:00 B. D. Best et al. - Analysis of telemetry data within a dynamic oceanographic context

12:30 LUNCH

Chair: Dan Costa

14:20 S. Garthe et al. - Foraging habitat selection by northern gannets preying on cold-water fish in the Low Arctic
14:40 B. J. Godley et al. - Contrasting migration and over-wintering strategies in sympatric marine turtle species in the Mediterranean
15:00 E. Hunter et al. - Linking natural and electronic data records to determine the lifetime movements of fish

15:20 TEA BREAK

Chair: Yan Ropert-Coudert

15:50 M. T. Tinker et al. - Individual dietary specialization and dive behaviour in the California sea otter: using archival time-depth data to detect alternative foraging strategies
16:10 A. Lescroel et al. - Microgeographic variation in the foraging behaviour of two coastal seabirds
16:30 F. Daunt et al. - Wintering foraging strategies of European shags from long-term logger deployments: impacts on survival and future breeding
16:50 C. E. Kuhn et al. - Examination of the foraging behaviour of the California sea lion: population differences and individual foraging strategies
17:10 I. Staniland et al. - Telemetry reveals the pre-breeding foraging of male Antarctic fur seals

19:00 ICEBREAKER (St Andrews Aquarium)



TUESDAY 14 June

Chair: Sascha Hooker

08:45 M. Johnson - Plenary talk: 'Make me one with everything' Appropriate technology for holographic biologging
09:20 R. D. Hill et al. - The life history transmitter: a new concept for long-term monitoring of oceanic vertebrates
09:40 K. Holland et al. - Towards development of "ecology tags" for large pelagic fishes
10:00 M. Horning et al. - Autonomic computing in bio-logging

10:20 COFFEE BREAK

Chair: Mike Fedak

11:00 B. Mate et al. - The evolution of an implantable ARGOS satellite-monitored radio tag for the year-round monitoring of large whale movements and dive habits
11:20 T. Mattern et al. - How to get the most (or anything) out of GPS loggers: a case study with Snares penguins
11:40 J. D. Metcalfe et al. - All washed up: a "pop-up and drift" approach to data recovery from archival tags on basking sharks using GSM mobile phone technology
12:00 R. Virtue et al. - Energy efficient protocols for subcutaneous RF identification tags in marine mammals at remote sites

12:30 LUNCH

Chair: Bernie McConnell

14:20 T. Patterson et al. - Analysis of marine telemetry data using hidden Markov models
14:40 J. Matthiopoulos et al. - Estimating animal space use and environmental preference from telemetry data
15:00 S. Brasseur et al. - Clustering for more insight in summary data from satellite tags

15:20 TEA BREAK

Chair: Bernie McConnell

15:50 P. Gaspar et al. - Coupling satellite oceanography and satellite tracking to analyze navigation skills in leatherback turtles
16:10 P. W. Robinson et al. - Comparison of indirect measures of foraging location and extent via remote tracking

16:30 POSTER SESSION: Ecology, Technology and Analysis, and Physiology

18:30 DINNER

20:00 Evening Session: Argos - Understanding Error
(Organiser: Bernie McConnell)



WEDNESDAY 15 June

Chair: Patrick Miller

08:45 H. Weimerskirsch - Plenary talk: Foraging behaviour and environmental conditions in seabirds
09:20 M. S. Coyne et al. - Building capacity to manage, analyse and publicly share marine vertebrate tracking data and integrate movements with oceanographic data
09:40 G. Müller et al. - From form to function - determination of diving behaviour on the scale of individual dives
10:00 R. P. Wilson et al. - All at sea with animal tracks and dead-reckoning solutions for the resolution of movement

10:20 COFFEE BREAK

Chair: Katsufumi Sato

11:00 R. W. Davis et al. - Diving behaviour of Weddell seals based on three-dimensional movements paired with video recorded observations
11:20 L. A. Fuiman et al. - Hunting behaviour of Weddell seals (Leptonychotes weddellii) diving from an isolated hole in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica
11:40 C. A. Bost et al. - Feeding behaviour of penguins detected by oesophageal temperature: a three dimensional approach
12:00 N. Liebsch et al. - Mouthing off about fish capture: jaw movements in pinnipeds reveal the real secrets of ingestion

12:30 LUNCH

Chair: Mark Johnson

14:20 Y. Mitani et al. - Stroking pattern and body angle in diving elephant seals
14:40 K. Sato et al. - Optimal stroke cycle frequency according to the body size of swimming animals
15:00 Y. Hirose et al. - Activities during foraging trip of streaked shearwaters: insights yielded by using acceleration data loggers

15:20 TEA BREAK

Chair: Mark Johnson

15:50 Y. Watanabe et al. - Blubber and buoyancy in Baikal seals Phoca sibrica, a marine mammal in freshwater
16:10 T. Akamatsu et al. - Swimming porpoises acoustically inspect areas that lie ahead in advance

16:30 POSTER SESSION: Behaviour

18:30 DINNER

20:00 Evening Session: Search for consensus on best practice in biologging science.
(Organiser: Patrick Miller; Chair: Rory Wilson)

THURSDAY 16 June

Chair: Carol Sparling

08:45 P. J. Ponganis - Plenary talk: Biologging of physiological parameters in higher marine vertebrates
09:20 A. Schmidt et al. - Alternative thermoregulatory strategies in king penguins at sea: physiological adjustments and energetics in relation with sustained diving activity versus interbout resting
09:40 Y. Handrich et al. - Thermoregulation in the diving king penguin. A complex feature: what is known and what is unexplained.
10:00 J. A. Green et al. - Year-round behaviour and energetics of Macaroni penguins

10:20 COFFEE BREAK

Chair: Dave Thompson

11:00 J. U. Meir et al. - Emperor penguin heart rate profiles during dives, surface intervals and rest periods: the value of digital egg records
11:20 T. K. Stockard et al. - Use of an indwelling oxygen electrode probe to measure air sac po2 in diving emperor penguins
11:40 S. L. H. Teo et al. - Movement patterns, diving behaviour and thermal biology of Atlantic bluefin tuna on their spawning grounds
12:00 D. J. McCafferty et al. - Using infra red thermometry to examine surface effects of instrument attachment on grey seals (Halichoerus grypus)

12:30 LUNCH

Chair: Rory Wilson

14:20 J. Hennicke et al. - Foraging ecology of the endangered Abbott's booby - first data for an effective protection
14:40 R. A. Phillips et al. - Wintering distribution and activity patterns of white-chinned petrels from South Georgia: individual strategies and implications for conservation
15:00 C. McClellan et al. - Using telemetry to reduce the by-catch of long-lived marine vertebrates

15:20 TEA BREAK

Chair: Bernie McConnell

15:50 P. J. Butler - Plenary talk: Future directions and challenges for biologging sciences
16:30 Discussion
17:10 Closing Remarks

19:00 BANQUET (Lower College Hall)
21:00 CEILIDH (Upper College Hall)