Technoscience Webinars
This webinar series aims to provide fishery managers and biologists with information on cutting-edge technology, associated scientific methods, potential applications for fisheries management and assessment, and logistical considerations.
What is 'technoscience?'
'Technoscience' is defined as "…how science informs and enables technology, and how technology enables science—all within the context of iterative societal feedbacks" (Cooke et al. 2022). The technoscience webinar series sets technology in the context of society and fosters two-way dialogue between researchers and decision-makers to help move technology into use.
Learn more: S.J. Cooke, M.F. Docker, N.E. Mandrak, N. Young, D.D. Heath, K.M. Jeffries, A. Howarth, J.W. Brownscombe, J. Livernois, C.A.D. Semeniuk, P.A. Venturelli, A.J. Danylchuk, R.J. Lennox, I. Jarić, A.T. Fisk, C.S. Vandergoot, J.R. Britton, and A.M. Muir. 2022. Technoscience and the modernization of freshwater fisheries assessment and management. Environmental Technology & Innovation, Volume 28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eti.2022.102865
Why a webinar series?
Technology develops and changes rapidly, and fishery decision-makers are busy people. This pilot series of six, monthly webinars will help fishery managers stay abreast of technological developments in an accessible and convenient way and will encourage discussions around practical considerations for applying technoscience to management. Our goal is to develop a community of practice around technoscience in fisheries management that will persist beyond the original series of webinars, and to identify promising technoscience innovations that might benefit from focused efforts to operationalize their use in fishery management and assessment.
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Upcoming webinars
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Thursday, January 16th, 2:00-3:00pm EST: Autonomous vehicles
Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcodu-sqzkqGNE2xacZ6cYDn6qvTsrPqWmj
Speakers:
- Dr. Xiaobo Tan, Michigan State University. "Autonomous Surface Vehicles for Fish Tracking: Promise, Challenges, and Outlook"
- Acoustic telemetry has become a valuable tool in fishery research in the Great Lakes and elsewhere. In acoustic telemetry, animals are tagged with acoustic transmitters and their movements are tracked by hydrophones or acoustic receivers that can identify tagged animals in their vicinity. Current practice of acoustic telemetry predominantly uses stationary receivers, which often pose limitations in tracking range, result in latency in data access, and present other logistical challenges. Mobile acoustic telemetry, where acoustic receivers are mounted on robotic platforms, offers an appealing, complementary solution. However, these underwater platforms, such as underwater gliders and propeller-driven autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), are typically costly and require special expertise to operate. In this talk we discuss autonomous surface vehicles as a promising cost-effective and user-friendly solution to mobile telemetry. We present findings on their tag-detection performance from field experiments conducted on Hammond Bay, Lake Huron, and explore future directions of technology advancement to support fishery science and management. We will also share thoughts on democratizing the technology to make it a readily accessible tool for fishery researchers and managers.
- Dr. Peter Esselman, U.S. Geological Survey.
- Dr. Xiaobo Tan, Michigan State University. "Autonomous Surface Vehicles for Fish Tracking: Promise, Challenges, and Outlook"
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Thursday, February 13th, 2:00-3:00pm EST: Real-time observing systems
Register: hhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMucu-oqDMtGdC8ph4Qf5AT6i_cVAaYwdQE
Speakers:
- Dr. Jennifer Boehme, Great Lakes Observing System.
- Dr. Aaron Fisk, Katelynn Johnson, and Rylie Robinson, Real-Time Aquatic Ecosystem Observation Network.
This project is supported by the Science Transfer Program.