Stephanie O'Donnell
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WILDLABS
Fauna & Flora
You’re invited to the WILDLABS Variety Hour, our monthly community event connecting you to the exciting projects, research, and ideas that are happening in conservation tech right now.
You never know what you’ll find and who you’ll meet at our Variety Hour, and that’s part of the fun! You might catch speed talks from community members working around the world, learn from a leading conservation tech expert, discover a new tool, test your wildlife trivia skills, find a great opportunity - maybe you’ll even do all of the above.
The WILDLABS Variety Hour isn’t a show, or a lecture, or a workshop. It's an engaging, fun, and interactive gathering, giving you a welcoming space to share your own projects and resources, ask and answer questions, have insightful conversations, meet collaborators, make friends, and get to know the conservation tech community in a new way.
Great ideas and discussions are sparked when people who share a passion for conservation tech unite. When you come along to the Variety Hour, you’re joining a space full of people who care about conservation tech just like you; when you leave the Variety Hour, we hope you’ll take away fresh inspiration and the knowledge that you belong to a global community who are making an impact in our field all around the world.
The Variety Hour: April 2024
This month, we'll have three speed talks from Anna Colquhoun, Bruna Teixeira, and Krishna Kumar, followed by a longer talk from Robin Sandfort.
Anna Colquhoun will kick off April's Variety Hour, talking about lessons learnt from GSMA's new report regarding bridging biodiversity and business. Bruna Teixeira will share her research in Brazil, where she's using passive acoustic monitoring to evaluate the effects of anthropogenic highway noise on biodiversity. Krishna Kumar is joining us for the last speed talk to share his expierences using innovative information technology to mitigate human-wildlife conflict. Our longer talk will be led by Robin Sandfort, who will take us on a journey of integrating open source hardware an software into practical bioacoustic tools for biodiversity monitoring and applied wildlife management.
Sound fun? Register here. We'll see you there!
Agenda
- Anna Colquhoun (@Annacq) | The Nature Tech Nexus: Bridging biodiversity and business
- Bruna Teixeira (@BrunaTeixeira) | Use of acoustic index as an indicator of anthropogenic pressure in Atlantic forest fragments in northeast Brazil
- Krishna Kumar (@kklibra) | Mitigating human-wildlife conflict & illegal trade through innovative information technology (IT) Solutions
- Intermission | The WILDLABS Quiz with Henry Rees
- Robin Sandfort (@capreolus) | Nature's Waltz: Dancing between classical biodiversity monitoring & emerging bioacoustics and AI
Past Recordings
Can't wait for this Variety Hour? Why not check out our past events! You can find all of the on our YouTube Channel.
- Variety Hour March | Join us this month we're talking about making AI more accessible with Pytorch, new developments from WildMe and TagRanger, and working with geospatial data with Fauna & Flora.
- Variety Hour October | Join us this month to hear about a low-cost design for an aquatic stereo camera, a cost-effective design for nocturnal, infrared video recording, The Inventory, the dynamic, wiki-inspired platform we've been building for conservation tech, and a whirlwind update of google's work on AI for nature.
- Variety Hour September | Join us this month to hear about developing a Polar Bear satellite ear tag transmitter, how 3D tech is being used in forest ecology, Digital Earth Africa's work to make Earth Observation data open and accessible for the African contient, and using an open-source accelerometer to track a cryptic turtle species.
- Variety Hour August | Join us this month to hear more about the new £3.6m funding call from UKRI supporting innovation in AI for biodiversity monitoring, discover Gundi, a technology platform that allows conservationists to seamlessly integrate any hardware with any conservation software, learn how Collabora works to support open source projects, and meet the founder of ConTech Africa and hear about her work to bridge conservation issues to tech solutions.
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