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

The 2024 Ocean Tracking Network Symposium is taking place from Sept. 23-26, 2024, in Halifax, N.S.
The symposium will begin with an evening social on Sept. 23,
followed by two full days of sessions and an optional workshop for early career researchers on Sept. 26. 

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Joanna Mills Flemming will be participating in the following workshop:
Applied Stochastic Processes for Encounter Problems
February 5, 2024 - February 9, 2024