fRee-Ranging gRiffon vultuRes: movement, social network, and {targets}

Movement characteristics predict social network position in free-ranging griffon vultures
Bio/talk description:
Kaija Gahm is a third-year PhD candidate in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at UCLA. Her research focuses on how animals move through their habitat and interact with each other, using data from a free-ranging population of GPS-tracked vultures. Kaija has been using and teaching R for many years and is passionate about open science and reproducible methods. She serves on the board of the Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (SORTEE), leads the "Hacky Hours" coding workspace at UCLA, and teaches workshops with The Carpentries. In addition to her research questions and results, she will discuss some of the methods used in this analysis, including an R package she developed and a reproducible workflow for data management using the {targets} package.

Meeting Location:
NEW ROOM FOR THIS MONTH ONLY. We'll be meeting at the Keck Center @ Chapman University room N214. The space has a 40-person limit - If you RSVP but are unable to attend, please update your RSVP promptly to accommodate others interested in attending.

Food:
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Parking:
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