Mackey Auditorium at the Ruby Gerontology Center
Maps and parking
Park in Lot E or Lot E West, next to the Ruby Gerontology Center
Admission: Free to CSUF students with ID; $7 all students (with ID); $12 general. Pay at the door.
SCPRF Advisory committee: John Bock, CSUF / Sara Johnson, CSUF / Lynn Miller, Mira Costa College / Jim Moore, UCSD / Norm Rosen, SCPRF/CSUF/UCL / Craig Stanford, USC
The poster session is an excellent venue for Undergraduate and Master's level students to present their research and gain experience in a friendly and low pressure context. The poster session will convene during the one hour afternoon coffee break.
Please note: poster content does not have to reflect the meeting topic; we will consider posters presenting information on a wide range of subject matter.
This poster session continues to be a great success and we would like very much to see it continue. If you are a student, or know of a student, who is ready to present, please submit names and proposed titles to
Space will be limited, the earlier you respond the more likely we can include the poster.
Posters should be mounted on folding poster boards measuring 36" X 48" (when folded they measure 36" X 24") which can be purchased at most office supplies stores. General guidelines for how to put a poster together can be found at www.asp.org/education/howto_onPosters.html or at http://faculty.ucr.edu/~maryb/poster.htm
And now for something completely different...
This is unrelated to SCPRF per se, but highly relevant to what we all do. Anyone who has ever reviewed even a small chunk of literature has at least once wondered if a reported difference was 'real' or a result of methodological or definitional discrepancies.
Animal Behavior Metadata Standard
Site Goals:
This website allows [interested parties] to review the current draft of an international metadata standard (ontology) for Animal Behavior, and to provide comments and suggested changes.
History of this Project: The current project resulted from the pooled efforts of several independent initiatives. David Shotton and colleagues (Oxford University) recently extended their highly successful ontologies for biological images and videos to include a draft for animal behavior [SABO]. Concurrently, Emilia Martins (Indiana University) and Anne Clark (Binghamton University) organized two meetings in 2002-3 (funded by the USA National Science Foundation) to design a central portal for the federation of widely distributed databases on animal behavior [Ethosource]. At those meetings, Clark and Jack Bradbury (Cornell University) were assigned the task of convening 1-2 international workshops to draw up a consensus metadata standard for the field. Again with NSF support, a first workshop of [39 participants] (including the Oxford team) was held at Cornell's Laborary of Ornithology in April 2004 [See Group Photo]. NSDL generously offered to post the draft ontology from that meeting and provide this WIKI to facilitate worldwide comment, additions, and corrections. After a reasonable comment period, a second workshop will be held to integrate cumulative input and post a revised draft for widespread usage.