| Sunday 25 October | |
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Arrival of workshop participants |
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20:00 |
Dinner |
| Monday 26 October | |
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Workshop #1 “Ecology of long-lived bivalves” |
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09:00 – 10:00 |
Welcome, introduction & general remarks (Paul Butler/Rob Witbaard) |
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10:00 – 10:30 |
Tea & coffee break |
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10:30 – 11:15 |
Talk on Ecological adaptation of bivalves (Marc Lavaleye) |
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11:15 – 12:30 |
Talk on taxonomy (Julian Thébault) |
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12:30 – 13:30 |
Lunch |
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13:30 – 17:30 |
Practical taxonomy & bivalve identification (Julian Thébault) |
| Tuesday 27 October | |
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09:00 – 10:30 |
Introduction to multivariate analysis in ecology (Bryan Black) |
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10:30 – 11:00 |
Tea & coffee break |
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11:00 – 12:30 |
Applying multivariate methods to existing datasets: 1 (Bryan Black) |
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12:30 – 13:30 |
Lunch |
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13:30 – 17:30 |
Applying multivariate methods to existing datasets: 2 (Bryan Black) |
| Wednesday 28 October | |
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09:00 – 10:30 |
Applying multivariate methods to existing datasets: 3 (Bryan Black) |
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10:30 – 10:45 |
Tea & coffee break |
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Start of Workshop #2 “Attracting funding” |
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10:45 – 12:30 |
Discussion of funding possibilities, including short presentations (Butler/Reynolds/Richardson/Witbaard) |
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12:30 – 13:00 |
Lunch |
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Continuation of Workshop #1 – Fieldwork |
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13:00 – 16:00 |
Sampling Cerastoderma on the tidal flat (weather permitting) |
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16:00 – 18:30 |
Analysis of tidal flat data |
| Thursday 29 October | |
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ARAMACC presentations: where are we now? |
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09:00 – 11:30 |
Pitch presentations by ARAMACC ESRs and optional presentations by guests |
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11:30 – 12:30 |
Commercial applications of sclerochronology (Juliane Steinhardt) |
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12:30 – 14:30 |
Lunch + talk by Bryan Black |
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Continuation of workshop #2 – Practical exercise |
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14:30 – 17:30 |
Practical exercise related to grant applications |
| Friday 30 October | |
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09:00 – 12:30 |
Continued exercise related to grant applications |
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12:30 – 13:30 |
Lunch |
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13:30 – 15:30 |
Continued exercise related to grant applications |
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15:30 – 17:30 |
Final presentations |
| Saturday 31 October | |
| Day off. Opportunity to discover Texel or elsewhere | |
| Sunday 1 November | |
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Workshop #3 (optional) “Introduction to R” |
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09:00 – 12:30 |
Introduction to R |
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12:30 – 13:30 |
Lunch |
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13:30 – 17:30 |
Introduction to R |
| Monday 2 November | |
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09:00 – 12:30 |
Introduction to R |
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12:30 – 13:30 |
Lunch + farewell |