Spice up your projects with google apps (1)Faten Romdhani
Google Drive offers cloud-based storage and collaboration tools that allow users to create, edit, and share documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and more from any device with an internet connection. It provides benefits like real-time collaboration, easy file sharing, and version history to track changes over time. Additional resources for inspiration on using Google Drive can be found at the listed websites and Twitter accounts.
ZooKeeper is a centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing distributed synchronization, and providing group services. Ramesh Kaluri presented on developing distributed applications using Apache ZooKeeper on September 27, 2015. ZooKeeper allows distributed applications to coordinate with each other through shared hierarchical name spaces and distributed locks.
The Kerala Bird Monitoring Meet discussed various topics related to bird monitoring in Kerala over two days. Sessions covered trends in India's bird populations, gaps in Kerala's bird distribution data, creating a redlist for Kerala birds, and different methods of monitoring birds like in beaches, forests, wetlands and during raptor and pelagic surveys. Action items were identified to improve monitoring efforts and outreach. The State of India's Birds report was presented, showing preliminary trend results for Kerala with most species stable but some in decline or rapid decline based on eBird data analysis.
The document outlines the agenda for the Kerala Bird Monitoring Workshop 2022. The agenda includes talks on Kerala Bird Monitoring Network, district level bird monitoring activities and ambitions, the red list of birds in Kerala, heronry counts, strategies to increase women's participation in birding, impacts of climate change on bird species, improving data quality for eBird, pelagic bird counts, wetland bird counts, expanding the bird monitoring network to local panchayats, monitoring specific bird species and communities, using digital outreach to increase citizen science participation, and strategies for conserving bird habitats. One session will discuss actionable strategies to promote women's involvement in birding, such as encouraging birding in one's local area,
This document discusses bird conservation efforts in Kerala, India. It identifies threatened bird species that are priorities for conservation, including vultures, wood pigeons, and flycatchers. Important Bird Areas (IBAs) in Kerala are classified based on the threatened species they support. Conservation plans are proposed to protect high priority IBAs and monitor key species. Next steps include increasing surveys, protecting unique habitats, and engaging conservation groups and media to promote IBAs and address urgent threats to threatened birds.
This document outlines the agenda and priorities for a Kerala Bird Monitoring Workshop. The workshop will cover the status of the Kerala Bird Atlas project, analyzing results, identification workshops, continuous bird monitoring, and next steps. The Bird Atlas is Asia's largest with over 30,000 samples and 750,000 records from 1,000 volunteers. Priorities for additional surveys are outlined to maximize equal effort, seasonal parity, and spatial coverage. Data products will include distribution maps for species and groups as well as trend maps projecting changes over 10-25 years under different scenarios.
A presentation during a panel discussion on PELAGIC BIRD SURVEYS FOR ENHANCING INFORMATION ON MIGRATION during International Conference on Wetlands and Migratory Waterbirds of the Asian Flyways at Lonavala, Mumbai, India organised by BNHS India.
Spice up your projects with google apps (1)Faten Romdhani
Google Drive offers cloud-based storage and collaboration tools that allow users to create, edit, and share documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and more from any device with an internet connection. It provides benefits like real-time collaboration, easy file sharing, and version history to track changes over time. Additional resources for inspiration on using Google Drive can be found at the listed websites and Twitter accounts.
ZooKeeper is a centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing distributed synchronization, and providing group services. Ramesh Kaluri presented on developing distributed applications using Apache ZooKeeper on September 27, 2015. ZooKeeper allows distributed applications to coordinate with each other through shared hierarchical name spaces and distributed locks.
The Kerala Bird Monitoring Meet discussed various topics related to bird monitoring in Kerala over two days. Sessions covered trends in India's bird populations, gaps in Kerala's bird distribution data, creating a redlist for Kerala birds, and different methods of monitoring birds like in beaches, forests, wetlands and during raptor and pelagic surveys. Action items were identified to improve monitoring efforts and outreach. The State of India's Birds report was presented, showing preliminary trend results for Kerala with most species stable but some in decline or rapid decline based on eBird data analysis.
The document outlines the agenda for the Kerala Bird Monitoring Workshop 2022. The agenda includes talks on Kerala Bird Monitoring Network, district level bird monitoring activities and ambitions, the red list of birds in Kerala, heronry counts, strategies to increase women's participation in birding, impacts of climate change on bird species, improving data quality for eBird, pelagic bird counts, wetland bird counts, expanding the bird monitoring network to local panchayats, monitoring specific bird species and communities, using digital outreach to increase citizen science participation, and strategies for conserving bird habitats. One session will discuss actionable strategies to promote women's involvement in birding, such as encouraging birding in one's local area,
This document discusses bird conservation efforts in Kerala, India. It identifies threatened bird species that are priorities for conservation, including vultures, wood pigeons, and flycatchers. Important Bird Areas (IBAs) in Kerala are classified based on the threatened species they support. Conservation plans are proposed to protect high priority IBAs and monitor key species. Next steps include increasing surveys, protecting unique habitats, and engaging conservation groups and media to promote IBAs and address urgent threats to threatened birds.
This document outlines the agenda and priorities for a Kerala Bird Monitoring Workshop. The workshop will cover the status of the Kerala Bird Atlas project, analyzing results, identification workshops, continuous bird monitoring, and next steps. The Bird Atlas is Asia's largest with over 30,000 samples and 750,000 records from 1,000 volunteers. Priorities for additional surveys are outlined to maximize equal effort, seasonal parity, and spatial coverage. Data products will include distribution maps for species and groups as well as trend maps projecting changes over 10-25 years under different scenarios.
A presentation during a panel discussion on PELAGIC BIRD SURVEYS FOR ENHANCING INFORMATION ON MIGRATION during International Conference on Wetlands and Migratory Waterbirds of the Asian Flyways at Lonavala, Mumbai, India organised by BNHS India.
The document summarizes the agenda and minutes from the 2019 Kerala Bird Monitoring Workshop held on June 8-9, 2019. The workshop reviewed results from the 2018 bird atlas surveys, discussed plans for the 2019 wet season surveys, and included sessions on bird identification, long-term monitoring, and using eBird data. Key topics included priorities for surveying forests, wildlife sanctuaries, and non-forest areas during the wet season, addressing coverage gaps from previous surveys, and sharing experiences and lessons from long-term monitoring programs.
The document describes the Kerala Bird Atlas, a citizen science initiative to document the distribution and seasonal patterns of birds across the state of Kerala from 2015-2020. The atlas uses a systematic survey method with equal sampling effort across 6.6 km grid cells. Volunteer birders survey random 1.1 km subgrid cells on weekends over two seasons, documenting birds on the eBird platform. After the first year, 78% of Kerala was covered and results showed distributions of various common bird species. The initiative aims to provide more accurate information on bird distributions for conservation planning through a collaborative effort with over 1,000 volunteer birders.
The document provides an overview of the Kasaragod Bird Atlas project conducted from 2017-2018. It summarizes the goals of documenting bird distribution across 187 subcells in Kasaragod district over different seasons. Key results included recording 237 bird species, including first sightings and threatened species. The project helped build a community of birders and engaged students. Analysis of survey data provides insights into habitat use and changes in abundance over time. The success of the atlas relies on participation of volunteers and support from the Kerala Forest Department.
The document summarizes the agenda and discussions from the 2018 Kerala Bird Monitoring Workshop held on June 10th. The workshop included presentations on the results from various bird atlases across Kerala districts, discussions around eBird data entry and monitoring strategies, and breakout groups to plan the 2018-19 bird atlas activities. Participants discussed long-term bird monitoring strategies beyond the atlas and other annual bird counts. The agenda covered district atlas experiences, eBird concerns, monitoring plans, and strategies for forest survey areas.
The survey found a total of 6,141 nests belonging to 9 species of waterbirds across 81 sites in 5 districts of Kerala. Alappuzha district had the highest number of nests at 2,713, followed by Kannur with 1,702 nests. The most common species were Little Cormorant (29% of nests), Indian Pond Heron (34%), and Little Egret (15%). Issues threatening some heronries included habitat destruction, disturbance during nesting season, and cutting down trees. Future plans discussed implementing more protections, surveying all districts, and addressing complaints about nuisance from heronry droppings.
This document provides information about the Asian Waterbird Count conducted in Kerala in 2017. It lists the 8 districts where count data is available in eBird, as well as the specific wetland sites counted in 6 of these districts. It also lists all wetland sites counted as part of the AWC database since 1987 for 14 districts. Trend data is given for 4 waterbird species at Kole Wetlands, Vembanad Lake and all sites from 1993-2014. Participants are requested to update the wetland site list and prioritize sites for future counts.
Great Backyard Bird Count, Onam Bird Count, Endemic Bird Day- in KeralaPraveen Jayadevan
Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC), Onam Bird Count (OBC) and Endemic Bird Day (EBD) are global events for public participation in bird-watching. This presentation evaluates the three year results from Kerala to discuss future steps.
Authors: Syamili Manoj and E.R. Sreekumar
Kannur Bird Atlas, part of Kerala Bird Atlas, completed their atlas surveys and this presentation reviews the planning, execution and results
Authors: C Sashikumar & Roshnath R
Kerala Bird Atlas is an ambitious citizen science project, to map the distribution and abundance of birds of an entire Indian state for the first time. Envisaged as a five year activity, this is a review of the project status after two years.
Author: Praveen J
Or: Beyond linear.
Abstract: Equivariant neural networks are neural networks that incorporate symmetries. The nonlinear activation functions in these networks result in interesting nonlinear equivariant maps between simple representations, and motivate the key player of this talk: piecewise linear representation theory.
Disclaimer: No one is perfect, so please mind that there might be mistakes and typos.
dtubbenhauer@gmail.com
Corrected slides: dtubbenhauer.com/talks.html
The binding of cosmological structures by massless topological defectsSérgio Sacani
Assuming spherical symmetry and weak field, it is shown that if one solves the Poisson equation or the Einstein field
equations sourced by a topological defect, i.e. a singularity of a very specific form, the result is a localized gravitational
field capable of driving flat rotation (i.e. Keplerian circular orbits at a constant speed for all radii) of test masses on a thin
spherical shell without any underlying mass. Moreover, a large-scale structure which exploits this solution by assembling
concentrically a number of such topological defects can establish a flat stellar or galactic rotation curve, and can also deflect
light in the same manner as an equipotential (isothermal) sphere. Thus, the need for dark matter or modified gravity theory is
mitigated, at least in part.
The debris of the ‘last major merger’ is dynamically youngSérgio Sacani
The Milky Way’s (MW) inner stellar halo contains an [Fe/H]-rich component with highly eccentric orbits, often referred to as the
‘last major merger.’ Hypotheses for the origin of this component include Gaia-Sausage/Enceladus (GSE), where the progenitor
collided with the MW proto-disc 8–11 Gyr ago, and the Virgo Radial Merger (VRM), where the progenitor collided with the
MW disc within the last 3 Gyr. These two scenarios make different predictions about observable structure in local phase space,
because the morphology of debris depends on how long it has had to phase mix. The recently identified phase-space folds in Gaia
DR3 have positive caustic velocities, making them fundamentally different than the phase-mixed chevrons found in simulations
at late times. Roughly 20 per cent of the stars in the prograde local stellar halo are associated with the observed caustics. Based
on a simple phase-mixing model, the observed number of caustics are consistent with a merger that occurred 1–2 Gyr ago.
We also compare the observed phase-space distribution to FIRE-2 Latte simulations of GSE-like mergers, using a quantitative
measurement of phase mixing (2D causticality). The observed local phase-space distribution best matches the simulated data
1–2 Gyr after collision, and certainly not later than 3 Gyr. This is further evidence that the progenitor of the ‘last major merger’
did not collide with the MW proto-disc at early times, as is thought for the GSE, but instead collided with the MW disc within
the last few Gyr, consistent with the body of work surrounding the VRM.
The document summarizes the agenda and minutes from the 2019 Kerala Bird Monitoring Workshop held on June 8-9, 2019. The workshop reviewed results from the 2018 bird atlas surveys, discussed plans for the 2019 wet season surveys, and included sessions on bird identification, long-term monitoring, and using eBird data. Key topics included priorities for surveying forests, wildlife sanctuaries, and non-forest areas during the wet season, addressing coverage gaps from previous surveys, and sharing experiences and lessons from long-term monitoring programs.
The document describes the Kerala Bird Atlas, a citizen science initiative to document the distribution and seasonal patterns of birds across the state of Kerala from 2015-2020. The atlas uses a systematic survey method with equal sampling effort across 6.6 km grid cells. Volunteer birders survey random 1.1 km subgrid cells on weekends over two seasons, documenting birds on the eBird platform. After the first year, 78% of Kerala was covered and results showed distributions of various common bird species. The initiative aims to provide more accurate information on bird distributions for conservation planning through a collaborative effort with over 1,000 volunteer birders.
The document provides an overview of the Kasaragod Bird Atlas project conducted from 2017-2018. It summarizes the goals of documenting bird distribution across 187 subcells in Kasaragod district over different seasons. Key results included recording 237 bird species, including first sightings and threatened species. The project helped build a community of birders and engaged students. Analysis of survey data provides insights into habitat use and changes in abundance over time. The success of the atlas relies on participation of volunteers and support from the Kerala Forest Department.
The document summarizes the agenda and discussions from the 2018 Kerala Bird Monitoring Workshop held on June 10th. The workshop included presentations on the results from various bird atlases across Kerala districts, discussions around eBird data entry and monitoring strategies, and breakout groups to plan the 2018-19 bird atlas activities. Participants discussed long-term bird monitoring strategies beyond the atlas and other annual bird counts. The agenda covered district atlas experiences, eBird concerns, monitoring plans, and strategies for forest survey areas.
The survey found a total of 6,141 nests belonging to 9 species of waterbirds across 81 sites in 5 districts of Kerala. Alappuzha district had the highest number of nests at 2,713, followed by Kannur with 1,702 nests. The most common species were Little Cormorant (29% of nests), Indian Pond Heron (34%), and Little Egret (15%). Issues threatening some heronries included habitat destruction, disturbance during nesting season, and cutting down trees. Future plans discussed implementing more protections, surveying all districts, and addressing complaints about nuisance from heronry droppings.
This document provides information about the Asian Waterbird Count conducted in Kerala in 2017. It lists the 8 districts where count data is available in eBird, as well as the specific wetland sites counted in 6 of these districts. It also lists all wetland sites counted as part of the AWC database since 1987 for 14 districts. Trend data is given for 4 waterbird species at Kole Wetlands, Vembanad Lake and all sites from 1993-2014. Participants are requested to update the wetland site list and prioritize sites for future counts.
Great Backyard Bird Count, Onam Bird Count, Endemic Bird Day- in KeralaPraveen Jayadevan
Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC), Onam Bird Count (OBC) and Endemic Bird Day (EBD) are global events for public participation in bird-watching. This presentation evaluates the three year results from Kerala to discuss future steps.
Authors: Syamili Manoj and E.R. Sreekumar
Kannur Bird Atlas, part of Kerala Bird Atlas, completed their atlas surveys and this presentation reviews the planning, execution and results
Authors: C Sashikumar & Roshnath R
Kerala Bird Atlas is an ambitious citizen science project, to map the distribution and abundance of birds of an entire Indian state for the first time. Envisaged as a five year activity, this is a review of the project status after two years.
Author: Praveen J
Or: Beyond linear.
Abstract: Equivariant neural networks are neural networks that incorporate symmetries. The nonlinear activation functions in these networks result in interesting nonlinear equivariant maps between simple representations, and motivate the key player of this talk: piecewise linear representation theory.
Disclaimer: No one is perfect, so please mind that there might be mistakes and typos.
dtubbenhauer@gmail.com
Corrected slides: dtubbenhauer.com/talks.html
The binding of cosmological structures by massless topological defectsSérgio Sacani
Assuming spherical symmetry and weak field, it is shown that if one solves the Poisson equation or the Einstein field
equations sourced by a topological defect, i.e. a singularity of a very specific form, the result is a localized gravitational
field capable of driving flat rotation (i.e. Keplerian circular orbits at a constant speed for all radii) of test masses on a thin
spherical shell without any underlying mass. Moreover, a large-scale structure which exploits this solution by assembling
concentrically a number of such topological defects can establish a flat stellar or galactic rotation curve, and can also deflect
light in the same manner as an equipotential (isothermal) sphere. Thus, the need for dark matter or modified gravity theory is
mitigated, at least in part.
The debris of the ‘last major merger’ is dynamically youngSérgio Sacani
The Milky Way’s (MW) inner stellar halo contains an [Fe/H]-rich component with highly eccentric orbits, often referred to as the
‘last major merger.’ Hypotheses for the origin of this component include Gaia-Sausage/Enceladus (GSE), where the progenitor
collided with the MW proto-disc 8–11 Gyr ago, and the Virgo Radial Merger (VRM), where the progenitor collided with the
MW disc within the last 3 Gyr. These two scenarios make different predictions about observable structure in local phase space,
because the morphology of debris depends on how long it has had to phase mix. The recently identified phase-space folds in Gaia
DR3 have positive caustic velocities, making them fundamentally different than the phase-mixed chevrons found in simulations
at late times. Roughly 20 per cent of the stars in the prograde local stellar halo are associated with the observed caustics. Based
on a simple phase-mixing model, the observed number of caustics are consistent with a merger that occurred 1–2 Gyr ago.
We also compare the observed phase-space distribution to FIRE-2 Latte simulations of GSE-like mergers, using a quantitative
measurement of phase mixing (2D causticality). The observed local phase-space distribution best matches the simulated data
1–2 Gyr after collision, and certainly not later than 3 Gyr. This is further evidence that the progenitor of the ‘last major merger’
did not collide with the MW proto-disc at early times, as is thought for the GSE, but instead collided with the MW disc within
the last few Gyr, consistent with the body of work surrounding the VRM.
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