Activities
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Conferences
Atlantic Canada Offshore Wind Readiness Forum 2026
The Atlantic Canada Offshore Wind Readiness Forum is convened by Net Zero Atlantic.
Atlantic Canada is entering a development-readiness phase for offshore wind. The foundational work is in place, priorities have been identified, knowledge gaps are clearer, and early coordination is already underway.
Join governments, researchers, regulators, industry representatives, and international experts for a one-day strategic forum focused on the next steps for offshore wind in Atlantic Canada: bringing clarity to priorities, strengthening coordination, and supporting informed decision-making across the region.
Wed, Sept 16, 2026
Harnessing animal movement data to achieve
global biodiversity conservation goals
Movement is a key component of at least nine Sustainable Development Goals, fifteen targets of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), and one class of Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs). However, workflows to transform raw movement tracks into global conservation policy are highly underdeveloped. We aim to close the science-policy gap by developing an informed community of practice that will facilitate the integration of tracking data into environmental policy at national and global scales. A key outcome of the workshop will include the creation of a new thematic Biodiversity Observation Network (BON) to harmonize new and existing efforts with relevance to multilateral environmental agreements & processes (e.g., Convention on Biological Diversity, Convention on Migratory Species) and to foster collaboration beyond the initial workshop. This workshop is the product of a proposal developed by the Smithsonian Institution, WILDLABS, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, and the University of Central Florida.
March 19-21, 2025
Lectures
Lectures
2026 Distinguished Lecture Series in Statistical Sciences: Daniela Witten
Free Hybrid Event (Virtual/In person) | Registration Required
Join us for this year’s Distinguished Lecture Series in Statistical Sciences with:
Daniela Witten
Professor of Statistics & Biostatistics
Dorothy Gilford Endowed Chair of Mathematical Statistics
University of Washington
Speaker Profile
Daniela Witten is a professor of Statistics and Biostatistics at University of Washington, and the Dorothy Gilford Endowed Chair in Mathematical Statistics. She develops statistical machine learning methods for high-dimensional data, with a focus on unsupervised learning.
She has received a number of awards for her research in statistical machine learning: most notably the Spiegelman Award from the American Public Health Association for a (bio)statistician under age 40, and the Presidents’ Award from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies for a statistician under age 41.
Daniela is a co-author of the textbook “Introduction to Statistical Learning”, and has served as Joint Editor of Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B.
Fieldwork
May 2024
The SEaDAL lab will be participating in a research cruise to the Labrador Sea in May 2024 as part of the NWA BCP project
The North Atlantic as a climate ocean: Projecting future changes in productivity and the biological carbon pump.