Date: Wednesday, June 20, 2018

Venue: 106 meeting room, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica

Website: https://roadkill.tw/news/20180531

Video: http://m.odw.tw/u/odw/collection/2018redac/

Agenda

08:30-09:00 Registration

09:00-09:20 Welcome and Conference opening

09:20-10:10 Plenary | Strategic research and mitigation programs in road ecology: A global perspective on best-practice | Rodney van der Ree, Associate Professor, The University of Melbourne

10:10-10:30 Morning Tea

10:30-12:30 Section on roadkill data collection and analysis

10:30-10:50 The actual situation and countermeasures of Roadkill in Japan | Masachika Tsuji, Associate Professor, Okayama University of Science

10:50-11:10 Systematic road mortality survey and estimate | Wan-Jyun Chen, Assistant Researcher, Endemic Species Research Institute

11:10-11:30 Modeling wildlife roadkill risk using citizen science data | Kristina Chyn, PH.D. Candidate, Texas A&M University

11:30-11:50 Development of a research data repository | Tyng-Ruey Chuang, Associate Research Fellow, Academic Sinica

11:50-12:10 Roadkill data visualization in Jupyter Notebook | Huang-Sin Syu, PH.D. Student, National Cheng Kung University

12:10-12:30 Modeling and identifying roadkill hotspots with professional and crowdsourced data for prioritization of mitigation planning | Johnathen Anthony, PH.D. Student, National Taiwan University

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-15:50 Section on roadkill mitigation

13:30-13:50 Eco-friendly provincial highway | Chung-Chang Lee, Deputy Chief Engineer, Directorate General of Highways, MOTC Taiwan

13:50-14:10 How and why roads make the endemic Dunes Sagebrush Lizard (Sceloporus arenicolus) disappear | Lee Fitzgerald, Professor, Texas A&M University

14:10-14:30 Monitoring the use of road-crossing structure by infrared-triggered cameras in Yangmingshan National Park, Taiwan | Yi-Huey Chen, Associate Professor, Chinese Culture University

14:30-14:50 Overview of Animex fencing research & examples of past road mitigation projects | Dean Swensson, CEO and Researcher Fellow, Animex

14:50-15:10 Afternoon Tea

15:10-15:30 Mammal roadkill and mitigation measures of freeway in Taiwan | Wei-Ting Liu, Freeway Bureau, MOTC Taiwan

15:30-15:50 Roadkill survey and mitigation in Gaomei Wetland | Jyuan-Ru Tsai, Postdoctor Researcher, Tunghai University

15:50-16:10 Preliminary result of TAIRON participants' motivation and learning outcome | Chia-Hsuan Hsu PH.D. Student, NationalTaiwan University

16:10-16:40 Discussion

16:40-17:30 Free Time / Networking

17:30-19:00 Dinner