#BOUsci21 – Resources
Developments in monitoring science
24 – 25 November 2021
Attendee resources
ATTENDEE GUIDE – your guide to all you need to know about your attendance
PROGRAMME
ABSTRACTS – alphabetical order (download)
ABSTRACTS – programme order (download)
ONLINE SCHEDULE APP with built in time converter
SLACK GUIDE – our guide to online networking at a BOU Zoom conference
SLACK APP – link to our online networking app
SLACK – link to Slack website for all things Slack
CODE OF CONDUCT
WORLD CLOCK including UTC time conversion for your local time
Important note: all times given on these conference pages are UTC. Use the above online scheduler app or ensure you check your local time for the event here.
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BOUsci21 recording: the meeting will be recorded and registration includes access to the recording from 29 November – 28 February 2022. We will send you a link to these recordings on 29 November.
Conference theme
The monitoring of bird populations provides the bedrock for informing conservation priorities and the research and conservation action that arises from these priorities. Whilst traditional field methods underpin the standardized monitoring programmes that have operated in the UK and many other countries, sometimes for decades, rapid recent developments in technology, online communication and statistics are offering many new possibilities that may enable us to improve existing monitoring programmes, and also to extend monitoring efforts to new species, regions and habitats.
This Developments in Monitoring Science conference will bring together ornithologists and ecologists from academic and conservation organisations, to share findings and explore the opportunities provided by recent advances and breakthroughs.
The conference will be international in scope and will cover topics including:
- Technological developments such as drones, bioacoustics, radar and eDNA;
- New analyses of monitoring and recording data;
- Online and mobile data collection;
- Demography and monitoring;
- Engagement of volunteers and the role of citizen science;
- Using monitoring data in conservation and policy.
The conference is aimed at researchers and students, conservation organisations, statutory government agencies and those engaged in policy, advocacy and conservation management. It will provide opportunities to share high quality science, network and discuss new ideas. Whilst the conference focuses on recent developments in avian monitoring science, much of the discussion will be relevant to participants whose core interest concerns taxonomic groups other than birds.
New parallel conference format
The BOU strives to make all our events inclusive and accessible. To help achieve this we now run all in-person and virtual Zoom conferences as dual platforms events with a Twitter conference running alongside the main in-person/virtual event.
Every presenter at a in-person/virtual event will now be required to tweet a summary of their presentation as part of the parallel Twitter event. We will also include additional Twitter-only presentations during the breaks of the in-person/virtual event.
For BOUsci20, the virtual Zoom event attracted an ‘in-the-room’ audience of 375 registrants, but the parallel Twitter event had over 550 participants, an ‘in-the-room’ audience of >1,600 people and a wider reach of 750,000 – from right around the world.
Unlike other social media platforms, Twitter is genuinely open access as you don’t even need an account to follow the Twitter event content. The BOU knows Twitter inside out having championed its use to promote ornithological research for the last decade and we’ve been running and sponsoring Twitter conferences for some years. Because of this take-up within our community is very high – 75% of BOU2019 delegates were on Twitter!
Presenters will be provided with extensive guidelines on how to tweet your presentation on Twitter, and you will be able to use either your personal or institute account. If neither of these are available, then we the BOU social media team will be on hand to discuss other options for you to present your work on Twitter.
See also Presenting at a Twitter conference
Keynote presenters
Dr Caren Cooper | North Carolina State University, US
Flock together: innovations migrating across citizen Science xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Gabriel Gargallo | Catalan Ornithological Institute, Spain
The role of online bird recording portals in avian monitoring science xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Simon Gillings | BTO, UK
The UK Breeding Bird Survey: 27 years of monitoring and innovation xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Dr Cat Horswill | ZSL Institute of Zoology and University College London, UK
Overcoming the data crisis in seabird conservation
Kate Jennings | RSPB, UK
Deploying data for nature conservation: How monitoring data is used to inform conservation policy and practice
Prof Kate Jones | University College London, UK
Conservation 4:0 Opportunities and challenges for passive acoustics
Scientific Programme Organisers
Mark Eaton | Chair | Rare Breeding Birds Panel & RSPB, UK
Dawn Balmer | BTO, UK
Fiona Burns | RSPB, UK
José Alves | University of Aveiro (Portugal) and University of Iceland