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Winter 2021
Virtual Meeting

December 14 & 15, 2021

Agenda

Who

FACT Network

When

December 14-15, 2021

Where

Virtual

HIGHLIGHTS WORKSHOP NODE NUMBERS

Meeting Summary

Our two day virtual meeting included FACT business updates, member updates and talks, as well as presentations by some of our partners! We also had a demonstration of the new FACT Data Visualization Tool (DaViT), an interactive mapping tool allowing the public to see the range and distribution of FACT tagged animals.

 

Our workshops included Basic and Advanced coding for telemetry datasets presented by the Ocean Tracking Network and Node 101, which aims to help new members input their data into our database to be automatically sent and matched with other researchers.

 

Use our drop down below to see updates from the FACT Network.

Meeting Poster by Sharking Daily

FACT Business

We’ve completed two data pushes through the FACT Node and now have part time help during these events (with a huge thanks to OTN!)

 

Grants

The FACT Network has been awarded the following two grants:

 

  • Incorporating acoustic telemetry data into coastal management.
    Awarded by SECOORA and includes the development of an online data visualization tool.
    Grant ends May 31 2022.

 

  • Greater Amberjack research to determine abundance estimates by habitat type, distribution, and movement in U.S. waters in the South Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico regions.
    Awarded by SeaGrant, subaward through North Carolina State University. Supports a part time data manager.
    Grant Period: 1 Aug 2021 – 31 July 2023.

Publications

11 new studies were published in scientific journals in 2021 by our members! You can check out those papers on our publication page.

Workshop

OTN Basic and Advanced Coding

The Ocean Tracking Network led workshops on R coding for acoustic telemetry.

 

  • The beginner session introduces R packages such as dplyr and ggplot2, commonly used for creating summaries and plots from data. 

 

  • The advanced session dives into R packages more specific to acoustic telemetry, including glatos and VTrack. 

 

Missed the workshop? Follow along with OTN’s curriculum here.

WORKSHOP

2021 Node in Numbers

211.5 Million Detections

8,028 Acoustic Tags

108 Species

152 Registered Projects

2,100 Stations