Introducing Our New Platform
Community Announcement / Community Base
WILDLABS 2.0: Introducing Our New Platform
Stephanie O'Donnell
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
New Platform Help: How do I...?
Stephanie O'Donnell
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
New Platform Help: Troubleshooting & bugs
Stephanie O'Donnell
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
Getting Started in the WILDLABS Community
Ellie Warren
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
Discussion / Community Base
Welcome to WILDLABS!
Stephanie O'Donnell
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...
29 October 2015
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Conversations & Questions
Akiba
Community Member
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The WILDLABS community forums are a fountain of knowledge. By joining discussions, we can understand what the real problems are, collaborate with people with the right expertise to solve those problems, and work together to craft real solutions. We hope you'll join the conversation!
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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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| 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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A marine research intern and science communicator with experience in photography, filmmaking, and collaborating on multi-disciplinary and community-centered marine research focusing on: fisheries management, seagrass ecosystems, and ocean literacy
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History of conducting in-depth surveys and market reviews to analyze conditions and put together targeted assessments of diverse economic areas and trends detail-oriented and well-qualified with extensive training and experience, specializing in Multi-Talented Economic Budget and
Justin Jonson
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Restoration ecologist working in southwest Western Australia. Restoring habitat and keen to measure the results.
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Hi, Cynthia Gichimu here. I'm a conservationist, and a champion for youths. I believe in environmental sustainability for posterity. I volunteer as a Project Officer with the Friends of Kinangop Plateau, a community-based local action group committed to biodiversity conservation.
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Ellie Warren
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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...
17 May 2022
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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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Welcome to the eighth and final module of our Build Your Own Data Logger virtual course. We’ve built, coded and tested our data logger. Now we’re taking it into the field.
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<p>We're proud to introduce the first <strong>WILD</strong>LABS On the Edge Fellows for 2022, Loretta Schindlerova and Meredith Palmer! Working alongside expert Edge Impulse mentors, these two fellows will use embedded machine learning to bring innovative projects to life.</p>
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Our second meetup in Season 4 explored the latest advancements and emerging developments in data analysis for movement ecology. Watch now to hear short talks from leading experts Sara Beery, Somayeh Dodge, Christen Fleming, and Mackenzie Mathis, followed by an open discussion and community exchange.
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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. Join us to discuss emerging tools for movement data collection, analysis, and sharing, and to imagine future tech innovations that could answer questions we haven’t yet thought to ask.
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- Download Now: The Technical Difficulties Editorial Series
<p>Our first <strong>WILD</strong>LABS Editorial Series is now available for download! Read the full Technical Difficulties collection and explore stories of challenges, failures, and lessons learned from the conservation tech community.</p> <p><a href="https://www.wildlabs.net/sites/default/files/technical_difficulties_finale.pdf">Download the full Technical Difficulties collection here.</a></p>
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Talia Speaker
Research Coordinator
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Our team works to make WILDLABS’ events engaging, fun, and informative. From Tech Tutors to Virtual Meetups to Community Calls, our events will help you learn, connect, and explore new conservation tech ideas.
Tracking Progress
Virtual Meetups Season 4
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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