Introducing Our New Platform
Community Announcement / Community Base
We're so pleased to introduce you to the new WILDLABS Platform. For the past year, we've been hard at work building a new home for our conservation technology community. Now that it's time to welcome members new and...
06 May 2022
Discussion / Community Base
Hi wildlabbers, Through our annual survey, you've told us (for literally YEARS) that your vision for WILDLABS is that it become the online home for...
06 May 2022
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Discussion / Community Base
Hi wildlabbers, We're so pleased to introduce you to the new WILDLABS Platform. For the past 18 months, we've been hard at work building a new home for our...
06 May 2022
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Community Announcement / Community Base
Welcome to WILDLABS! Our new platform is full of ways to engage with our global conservation technology community and connect you to members, resources, opportunities, events, and more. Read on to learn about how you...
06 May 2022
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Hello and welcome to the WILDLABS community! With 6,000 members and counting, we want to get to know you a little better. In a couple of...
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Hats off to your hard work, Steph! The new platform looks amazing. I'm excited to start exploring. :) |
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Community Base | 5 minutes 30 seconds ago | |
Hi Julien,I use this mic for my raspberry pi setup and it works well picking up bird species singing in our garden while the mic and raspberry sit under our roof tiles.Greetings,... |
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Acoustic Monitoring | 14 hours 5 minutes ago | |
New paper by Héloïse Verdier of LEHNA lab: Passive sampling of environmental DNA in aquatic environments using 3D-printed hydroxyapatite samplers https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/... |
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eDNA & Genomics | 1 day 12 hours ago | |
Hi David,There a quite a few options to buy recorders through either Alibaba or Taobao. They are very cheap and the quality is actually pretty good depending on what kind of work... |
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Acoustic Monitoring | 2 days ago | |
Hello everyone,I am looking for insight on the feasibility of identifying seabirds from photos taken at sea (such as these... |
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AI for Conservation, Camera Traps | 2 days 9 hours ago | |
Hey all! I work for a company called Sofar Ocean Technologies that is doing really cool work in the ocean conservation world and I'm interested in getting them to collaborate more... |
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Marine Conservation, Open Source Solutions | 1 week 2 days ago | |
Hello everyone! I am currently a senior undergraduate student working on landscape genetics research using RAD seq data and GIS data. The organism we've been studying... |
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Early Career | 1 week 2 days ago | |
Hey Evelyn, I work on building self-powered buoys that collect various sensor data (sea surface and sub-surface) that can be sent back to mainland over cellular/satellite... |
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Sustainable Fishing Challenges | 1 week 2 days ago | |
Hi Neil,I am a project manager for Zoological Society of London's Thailand Programme. We work in the southern Western Forest Complex of Thailand, which is a large landscape of... |
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Human-Wildlife Conflict | 1 week 3 days ago | |
It sounds like you're looking for multiparameter probes to deploy in the water to log in situ readings as part of the baseline you want to establish, and you might be deploying... |
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Sensors | 2 weeks 1 day ago | |
Thank You Netty! I love the new developments and the community setup. I am excited to see what is next. Thank you. |
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East Africa Community | 2 weeks 2 days ago | |
Hi Everyone,what is your #HydroMoth setup for freshwater ecoacoustic monitoring? What are your settings for... |
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Acoustic Monitoring | 2 weeks 4 days ago |
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Our fourth and final meetup in Season 4 will explore the future of movement ecology, including tools that could change the game and questions we might not yet have thought to ask. Join us Wednesday, June 8 at 3:00 PM...
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Giraffe Conservation Foundation is seeking a Conservation Science Data Specialist, with a background in Computer sciences or Natural sciences, to assist with the day-to-day management and analysis of data to advance...
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Our third meetup in Season 4 will explore the latest advancements and emerging developments in data sharing and archiving in movement ecology. Join us Wednesday, May 25 at 3:00 PM BST / 10:00 AM EDT to hear short talks...
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This season, we’re bringing together leading engineers, conservationists, and academics to explore the future of technology in movement ecology and ask where exactly investment is needed to catapult this field forward.
The fourth and final meetup of Season 4 will explore Future Questions & Tools in Movement Ecology and will be held on Wednesday, June 8 at 3:00 PM BST / 10:00 AM EDT. We'll hear short talks from leading experts Christian Rutz, Ran Nathan, Martin Wikelski, and Tanya Berger-Wolf, followed by open discussion and community exchange.
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