HiRAD

Harmonizing and integrating Radar-based Approaches for monitoring Aerial Diversity
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[HiRAD @HiRAD_Europe]

Insect migration fieldwork has just started around the Straits of Gibraltar to try and work out the species that our radars are seeing! So exciting!

[Dr Will Leo Hawkes @WillLeoHawkes]

I have just arrived at @FundacionMigres in Tarifa, S Spain, for 6 weeks of @Vogelwarte_scie #insectmigration fieldwork as part of @Birgen_Haest's Move in Europe project!

We have radars to monitor insects (!!) each side of the Straits of Gibraltar (1 in Ceuta, 1 in Tarifa) as well as insect traps in Tarifa, Gibraltar, and Ceuta to find out the types of insects migrating.

Here is the radar in Ceuta looking towards one of the Pillars of Hercules, the Rock of Gibraltar.

I'll be sharing loads here of the adventures I'm having.

So excited!!

[Jason Chapman @j_chapman2]

Fully-funded PhD on moth trapping, automated ID, climate extremes & predator responses, with @DavidRoyBRC and me at @UniExeCEC in Cornwall. Deadline ** 29 July **. Please share! https://t.co/XLsVBbniId

[HiRAD @HiRAD_Europe]

A new R package just released by @bart_kra et al. (#BiodivMon) facilitates import, analysis, and visualisation of movement data, integrating with Movebank & other sources. #AnimalTracking 👇

This is going to be so useful!

[Bart Kranstauber @bart_kra]

Need to analyze animal tracking data in R? Just out, our (@AnneKScharf & @safilabmpi ) paper in @MethodsEcolEvol describing the R package move2 (https://t.co/CNiy6jqXsG) for analyzing movement data, including reading data directly from @MovebankTeam. https://t.co/wYGgmLznAw

[Biodiversa+ (European Biodiversity Partnership) @BiodiversaPlus]

📡 Studying animal movement is key for understanding ecological processes and global change impacts. A new R package from @HiRAD_Europe (#BiodivMon) facilitates import, analysis, and visualisation of movement data, integrating with Movebank & other sources. #AnimalTracking 👇

[Bart Hoekstra (@barthoekstra.bsky.social) @barthoekstra]

📢Nieuw rapport & open dataset: Vogeltrek in kaart gebracht met weer- & vogelradars📡🐦‍⬛🐦

In opdracht van @AmsterdamNL, @GemDiemen en @ProvincieNH hebben we @IBED_UvA @UvA_Amsterdam vogeltrek in Noord-Holland onderzocht, om te kunnen helpen bij vraagstukken rondom windenergie.

[HiRAD @HiRAD_Europe]

Huge numbers of insects over the Netherlands!

[Maarten Reyniers @mrtnrey]

Kijk eens aan! Wekenlang niets dan regen op de radar, maar op dagen als deze zien we iets heel anders: insecten! Met dit weer zijn er overdag zoveel dat ze een signaal geven op de beelden. Hier ongefilterde beelden van radar Herwijnen (KNMI) vanaf 6u vanochtend 26/06. #InsectWeek

[Judy Shamoun-Baranes @BaranesJudy]

Fantastic animation by @mrtnrey of @KNMI weather radar data showing aerial insects en mass in the Netherlands last week. Very high passage of insects also visible over #Amsterdam in our birdscan radar @ ARTIS-park.
#ARISE @HiRAD_Europe @BiodiversaPlus @IBED_UvA @NWONieuws

[HiRAD @HiRAD_Europe]

Glad to see the insects helping our insect migration research!

[Dr Will Leo Hawkes @WillLeoHawkes]

Our insect migration monitoring radar in Tarifa, Spain, has its own insect guards.

Some fierce paper wasps protecting our research!

@Birgen_Haest @FundacionMigres @Vogelwarte_scie

[Birgen Haest @Birgen_Haest]

Flip the #radar switch & there they are: thousands of insects (each ❌ is at least 1) cruising through the air in Ceuta on the African side of the Srait of Gibraltar! @Vogelwarte_scie @HiRAD_Europe @obimasa @WillLeoHawkes

[HiRAD @HiRAD_Europe]

So many insects! They are such important migrants and it's amazing to see so many of them migrating over our radars. https://t.co/uNzktawaZw

[HiRAD @HiRAD_Europe]

Another radar joins the network!

[Dr Will Leo Hawkes @WillLeoHawkes]

Yesterday @Birgen_Haest, Alejandro Onrubia, José Luis Ruiz and I placed an insect monitoring radar in Ceuta on the African side of the Straits of Gibraltar!

This will help us reveal whether insects are migrating between the continents!

Muchas gracias to @obimasa, @ieceuties and the local tortoises for their help.

This will join the @HiRAD_Europe network of radars monitoring aerial life.

[HiRAD @HiRAD_Europe]

Two of the HiRAD team (@Birgen_Haest and @WillLeoHawkes) have just arrived in Tarifa, Spain to check their radar monitoring #insectmigration across the Straits of Gibraltar!

It has been recording since March and has got such exciting data on board.

We can't wait to share all!

[Birgen Haest @Birgen_Haest]

Fun session today on remote sensing for #biodiversity monitoring @ECCBinfo #ECCB2024, with @torre_mic @paniccia_chiara, presenting our vision on creating an aerial biodiversity monitoring network @silke_bauer @felix_liechti @Vogelwarte_scie @WSL_research @HiRAD_Europe @snsf_ch

[Silke Bauer @silke_bauer]

Interested in developing future scenarios for #bird #migration like in https://t.co/FWLNnfX8nf? Apply for a #postdoc within @KappaFlu!

[Fiona Lippert @LippertFiona]

Excited to announce that our paper "Learning to predict spatiotemporal movement dynamics from weather radar networks" is available @MethodsEcolEvol! We use #DeepLearning to generate comprehensive bird migration forecasts. #AI4science #radar #aeroecology

https://t.co/YaJIzcms3X

[Hans van Gasteren @hvangasteren]

What an increadible bird migration night!! On one of our bird radars in SE-Netherlands you'll see them moving SW. Computer hardly can't track all of the birds, #birdmigration, @trektellen, @vogeltrekinfo

[Vogelwarte_Science @Vogelwarte_scie]

New vacancy: Post-doctoral researcher "Aerial insect and bird movements". Are you interested to work within the MoveInEurope project of @globam_net? Then apply here: https://t.co/lfJz4FImk4 @Birgen_Haest @silke_bauer

[Yuting Deng @DengHermione]

It is wonderful to be able to come to #irac2022 and meet all these amazing researchers in the field of #aeroecology at #Davos. I am already looking forward to 2024.

[Judy Shamoun-Baranes @BaranesJudy]

What an amazing day 1 of #irac2022 talks about bats, birds, insects, AI, conservation, phenology, biodiversity, the interdisciplinary field of #radar #aerorcology @globam_net @BiodiversaPlus

[HiRAD @HiRAD_Europe]

Kicking off the first day of #IRAC2022!