IGM 2012 Zagreb, Croatia

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IGM 2012 Zagreb, Croatia

Post by Luka Jurinovic » Wed Jul 13, 2011 3:12 am

Dear Gull People!

We are happy to announce the next International Gull Meeting that will take place in Zagreb, Croatia from Thursday 16th-Sunday 19th February 2012 and will be organized by BIOM – Association for Biological Research.
The meeting itself will take place at a few localities in Zagreb. Hopefully, we’ll all meet on Thursday afternoon (16.2.). Further, talks and registration of participants are planned to take place at the Division of Biology, Faculty of Science of the University of Zagreb. Talks are planned to be held during the whole Friday and on Saturday afternoon. On Saturday morning (18.2.) we plan a trip to the Jakuševec rubbish dump where we would see up to 20.000 gulls. Most of them will be Black-headed Gulls, but you will also see Common, Yellow-legged, Caspian, Herring, Lesser Black-backed, Great Black-backed Gulls and maybe some more. That’s going to be an opportunity to read lot’s of color and metal ring from all over Europe. On the Saturday trip we’ll just watch gulls and on Sunday we plan to take a cannon netting session with those who are interested. Trips will start from Hotel Zagreb (http://www.hotelzagreb.com.hr/en/home ) where we found best prices for the participants. However, you are free to choose your own accommodation. We will provide you with a list of hotels upon request. Just across the street of hotel Zagreb is Lake Bundek located where you can see some gulls, swans and other waterfowl. The hotel is also in the vicinity of the rubbish dump, so we wouldn't lose much time for the trip(s).
During September we’ll send you details of the meeting with all the time tables and prices. Until then you can reach us at igm@biom.hr and all the new information about the meeting can be found on BIOM’s web site http://www.biom.hr.
At the end of this e-mail you’ll find some questions that would really help us in calculations and writing the second announcement.
We are looking forward to hear from you and to see you in Zagreb next year!
All the best!
Luka Jurinović & the Croatian IGM team





PLEASE FILL AND SEND TO igm@biom.hr before August 31st 2011
Name:
Email:
Post address:
Probability of participating = %
Do you plan to have a talk?
If so, please give us the title and estimated duration of talk:
Do you want to participate in:
Saturday trip to the rubbish tip?
Sunday cannon netting session?

Any additional suggestions or comments are welcome and helpful!

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Re: IGM 2012 Zagreb, Croatia

Post by marsmuusse » Wed Sep 28, 2011 5:51 am

Please, anyone thinking about going to the IGM in Croatia, please send the application form to Luka. He recived 25 forms already, but there is still room to join this Mega Spectaculair Event, see and hear interesting news, catch michahellis on the dump, read and photograph many yellow rings, and maybe even fiond time to sip a beer with the pals!

Be honest, who doesn't want to be part of that???

See you in Croatia, Mars

(An updated programme will be added here soon).

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Finally :)

Post by Luka Jurinovic » Mon Oct 17, 2011 5:53 am

11th International Gull Meeting
Zagreb 2012, February 16th-19th
Second Announcement


General info

The International Gull Meeting will be organized by the Association BIOM.
The official language of the meeting will be English.


The registration fee is 120€ if paid until December 15th 2011. You can pay via

1) PayPal (https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?c ... ZAGDH4RVMS)

2) bank transaction to BIOM’s account (http://www.biom.hr/en/kontakt/).

After December 15th the registration fee will be 135 € and can be also paid in cash
(local currency: Kuna) upon arrival in Zagreb.

The registration fee covers:
• two lunches (Friday and Saturday) and one dinner (Friday) at Hotel Zagreb
• gala dinner at Didov san (traditional Croatian restaurant)
• transportation during the Meeting
• two trips to Jakuševec rubbish tip
• organizing costs

Note that drinks are not included in this price.
If you have special preferences regarding your food (vegetarian, allergies etc.), please indicate this in your registration form.


Accomodation

Accomodation for participants is available at special prices in Hotel Zagreb (http://www.hotelzagreb.com.hr/en/home):
single room 250 Kn (around 33 € ) per person per night
double room 300 Kn (around 40 €) for two persons per night.
Breakfast & VAT included in room rate. City tax per person / day – 7 Kn (1 €)..

Participants should reserve the room as soon as possible to get preferred rooms. We have arranged with the hotel to keep rooms for 50 people available for two weeks (that’s until October 30th 2011). After that we cannot guarantee that there will be rooms available. You can reserve a room at the Hotel’s websitehttp://hotel-zagreb.com.hr/en/reservations. You should put under “note” that you are attending the International Gull Meeting in order to get special prices. You can also ask for a smoking or nonsmoking room.
If you would like to share a room with someone and you haven’t made final arrangements you can contact us and we’ll put you in contact with others who are in the same situation.

Hotel Zagreb is an old hotel and it’s a budget-friendly solution with WiFi.
We also arranged better prices for other accommodation. You can stay also at Hotel International (http://www.hotel-international.hr/) at these prices:

single room 550 Kn (around 73 € ) per person per night
double room 650 Kn (around 87 €) for two persons per night.
Breakfast & VAT included in room rate. City tax per person / day – 7 Kn (1 €).

Transportation from Hotel International to Hotel Zagreb, where the meeting will be held and where the starting point for the trips is, will be organized.
Hotel International is more convenient for the disabled as Hotel Zagreb does not have elevators.

You can get info about other hotels and hostels upon request.


How to get to the IGM

If you are coming to Zagreb by plane, the easiest way to get to Hotel Zagreb is to take the transfer bus at the airport and ask the driver to leave you at Bundek station (it is on-demand station some 3 minutes walking distance from Hotel Zagreb). The ticket costs 30 Kn (4 €) and you can find the schedule at http://www.plesoprijevoz.hr/schedulezg.htm



Provisional agenda of the Meeting:

Thursday
18:00-
Registration at Hotel Zagreb
beer, wine and slides

Friday
10:00 -13:00 Talks
13:00 -15:00 Lunch break
15:00 -19:30 Talks
20:00 - 22:00 Dinner
22:00 - Slide shows

Saturday
8:00 -12:00 Trip to Jakuševec rubbish tip
13:00-15:00 Lunch break
15:00 -19:30 Talks
20:00 - 24:00 Dinner at traditional Croatian restaurant

Sunday
7:00 - Cannon netting at Jakuševec


List of confirmed talks so far (updates can be found on http://www.biom.hr/igm):

Chris Gibbins Is it possible to identify heinei Common Gulls in the field?

Risto Juvaste Sexing of gull chicks by measurements

Risto Juvaste How to estimate migration timing by reads

Peter Rock Urban gulls

Paul Roper North Thames Gull Group

Paul Veron Guernsey Gulls – An outline of the research projects being run on the three Larid species breeding in the Bailiwick of Guernsey, English Channel

Zsolt Karcza & Peter Szinai Gull colour ringing in Hungary 1994-2011


Nick Rossiter Yellow-legged Gull: Differences between Atlantic and Mediterranean populations

Ruud Altenburg Extent of post-juvenile moult in first winter michahellis

Mars Muusse ID of second calendar year Larus heuglini

Morten Helberg Were do Norwegian gulls migrate? Results from read ringing data from southern Norway 1995-present

Luka Jurinović Gulls in Croatia: species, statuses and numbers

Jelena Kralj Movements of eastern Adriatic Yellow-legged Gulls - 12 years of colour-ringing

Vladimir Savić Influenza viruses in gulls


There has been a change in the organization of the meeting and all talks will be held at Hotel Zagreb. That way we will have much more time for the talks as we will not have to loose time on transportation. In addition, this way we have the possibility of having slide shows after dinner.
If you have some interesting photos, prepare them for these sessions and we can discuss them over beer or wine.

We assume that most of the talks will be prepared in PowerPoint so we will prepare a laptop and projector. If you need something special for your talk please let us know so we can try to arrange it. We would appreciate if you could send the talk to us in advance so that we can make sure that everything will work fine. Talks will be limited to 30 minutes.


Registration

Those of you who sent me the registration form after the 1st announcement and said that you will attend 100% I count as coming and you don’t have to write me unless you have other questions or notes.
Those that said they will come with percentage less than 100%, please send email me if you’ll come as soon as possible so that I know how many people are coming exactly.
Others, who will come to the meeting, please fill the form at the end of this announcement and send it back to igm@biom.hr as soon as possible.
There is no real deadline for registration, but we are limited to 50 people for the trip and for the room where talks will be held.

If you have any other questions or suggestions, feel free to contact us at igm@biom.hr.

Hope to see you in Zagreb!


Luka Jurinović and Croatian IGM team




Name:
Email:
Post address:
Do you plan to have a talk?
If so, please give us the title and estimated duration of talk:
Do you want to participate in:
Saturday trip to the rubbish tip?
Sunday cannon netting session?

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update

Post by Luka Jurinovic » Sun Oct 23, 2011 4:57 pm

During the IGM we’ll organise a colour ringing workshop. Main subjects could be materials, designs, self-rolling, coding, analysis of cr data etc. Your examples and subsubjects for this matter are very welcome. If you have any ideas please let me know , so that I can organise it better..

As for the slide shows in the evenings, if you have some slides you'd like to present, please give me the themes so I could organise it a bit..

New confirmed talks:

Viola Ross-Smith Gull migration: calibrating colour ringing data with GPS telemetry
Aonghais Cook Analysis of colour-ringing data: Maximising the impact of your efforts

Risto Juvaste will give talk entitled "Exciting (but yet secret) results from 127 GPS-transmitter LBBG-migration project" instead of "How to estimate migration timing by reads"

That's all for now!

All the best

Luka

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Update #2

Post by Luka Jurinovic » Sun Nov 27, 2011 8:14 am

Most of the abstracts of the talks that will be held are available online at http://www.biom.hr/en/igm_abstracts/

There is one new talk:
Cyril Mahaim Saunders’s Gull and Relict Gull, two specialized and threatened species

On the same link you can find provisional list of sub-subjects for cr workshop.

I'd like to remind you that you should book your rooms, if you didn't yet.

Also those who think of coming should fill the form and send it to igm@biom.hr

that's all for now..

cheers

Luka

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Re: IGM 2012 Zagreb, Croatia

Post by Luka Jurinovic » Mon Jan 09, 2012 9:07 pm

Hi!

preliminary schedule for IGM in Zagreb is available on www.biom.hr/igm

see you in Zagreb
Luka

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