Join our workshop in Costa Rica from the 30th of November until the 13th of December 2025.
A programme with leading researchers for you to expand your knowledge and to take the opportunity to form networks and friendships with academics and students from around the world. Our workshop will take place at the Organization for Tropical Studies, La Selva Research Station. Nearest international airport is Juan Santamaria International in San Jose.
This course is recommended for people with advanced to very advanced programming skill level in R. (PhD, Postdoc and Professionals).
A letter of interest including your expectations towards the course Your CV A description of your data and research questions that you hope to address during Animove
(Due to the usual high volume of applications, which exceeds our capacity by 4 to 6 times, we regret to inform you that incomplete applications will not be considered.)
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Cost, 2,550 USDollar
AniMove is a non-profit initiative, all lecturers are not paid. Fees are only used to cover expenses.
The fees include:
- Instruction, course participation and course material
- Certificate
- Accommodation in double occupancy
- Airport transfer in a group bus
- All meals for the two weeks (breakfast, lunch, dinner)
- Guided nature walk
Course Content
- Remote sensing
- Movement Ecology
- Movement analysis
- Continuous time movement models
- Segmentation
- GPS logger data manipulation, raster data classification
- Visualisation of movement and environmental data
Course structure
- Limited to 20 to 22 participants
- Two week course where total teaching hours (including lectures, seminars and independent work) amounts to 120 hours.
- The course is centered around on-hands working on own data sets.
- The first week is more teaching heavy, to bring all the participants up to the same level, while the second week is focusing on working on the data sets that the participants have brought along to work with. An advanced to very advanced programming skill level in R is required from the participants.
- Saturday and Sunday are at your free disposal
This year we are able to give reduced rates to participants who are affiliated to a Latin American institution. For more information please contact animove@ab.mpg.de
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