NSF Workshop and Symposium at 2015 Animal Behavior Society Meeting

[sue_bertram]

At the 2015 Animal Behavior Society Meeting, held in Anchorage, AK
June 10-14, ABS and NSF will support a symposium and workshop titled,
“It’s about time: Understanding temporal variation in behavior.”

Many aspects of animal behavior involve change over time. If researchers
do not consider time, they miss a number of functionally important
processes. The general importance of timing in animal behavior is widely
appreciated, but often not explicitly addressed. Furthermore, researchers
who do explicitly address temporal variation do so in distinctly different
ways. By bringing together researchers from diverse fields of study,
the symposium and workshop will:

1.      Outline important unresolved temporal issues in animal behavior,
2.      Facilitate integration among fields that explicitly study
        temporal variation in behavior and those that are impacted by
        temporal variation,
3.      Arm researchers with tools to experimentally test and analyze
        temporal patterns of behavior,
4.      Instigate collaborations among researchers, with a particular
        focus on the professional development of early-career
        researchers,
5.      Generate an overview paper co-authored by all participants, and
6.      Produce novel research plans for competitive grant proposals.

The National Science Foundation is funding awards of $700 to support
travel costs for researchers to attend the symposium and participate in
the workshop. Researchers from underrepresented groups and early-career
researchers are particularly encouraged to apply. To apply, send
a CV and brief cover letter to Andy Dosmann (dosm...@stanford.edu)
describing how your research interests are relevant to the meeting, why
you want to attend the meeting, and what you hope to gain from it. To
ensure consideration, send materials by April 15, 2015. Please forward
to anyone that might be interested in participating.

For additional information on the workshop and symposium, email
dosm...@stanford.edu. For general information on the ABS Meeting,
visit www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/2015

Andrew John Dosmann