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Discussion / Community Base
We’re so excited to announce that our next Editorial Series will focus on sustainability in conservation tech! As the follow-up to our first Editorial...
27 June 2022
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Discussion / Community Base | Early Career
Conservation Tech Career Pathways - what do you want to know?
Stephanie O'Donnell
Hi wildlabbers, I made a casual comment in my post in the friday check in thread...
17 June 2022
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Article / Biologging
Our fourth and final meetup in Season 4 explored the future of movement ecology, including tools that could change the game and questions we might not yet have thought to ask. On June 8, we heard short talks from...
22 June 2022
Discussion / AI for Conservation | East Africa Community
Hey everyone,Do you have bulk camera trap imagery or are you looking to set up camera traps to collect wildlife data? Camera traps are undoubtedly one of the most useful and...
21 June 2022
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Discussion / AI for Conservation | Camera Traps
MegaDetector v5 release
Dan Morris
Some folks here have previously worked with our MegaDetector model for categorizing camera trap...
20 June 2022
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| It continues to be difficult to source microcontrollers due to global supply chain issues, but Open Acoustic Devices have managed to source a small supply for an initial... |
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Acoustic Monitoring, Marine Conservation | 1 minute 28 seconds ago | |
| Hello everyone,As we continue to build our community, we are looking for ways to engage you and ensure you’re able to access information on appropriate and up-to-date... |
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East Africa Community | 2 hours 49 minutes ago | |
| Hi Lindy, ODM has a steep learning curve but is fantastic once you understand it. I have much better results than from commerical services, although we were just stitching fairly... |
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Drones | 47 minutes 13 seconds ago | |
| hi guys,so i was working on a map and i was trying to pick certain points from earth ranger on loading them to arc pro the projection shifted to another area we have looked into... |
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Remote Sensing & GIS, East Africa Community | 53 minutes 33 seconds ago | |
| Now let us use this monster 1.5 TB microSD Card with our audiomoth ;-) ... |
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| I currently work on two sustainability challenges: 1. Sustainability of Remote Sensing & AI for Carbon Sequestration: There is great potential in combining remote sensing... |
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| Hi!I deployed passive acoustic recorders to detect animal calls but on one of my devices the date & time settings got messed up and reverted to the default (Jan 1, 2000). And... |
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Acoustic Monitoring | 8 hours 56 minutes ago | |
| Great ideas David! I feel like workplace culture questions like you mention are really important, especially for those coming from grad programs/academia where it's so... |
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Community Base, Early Career | 12 hours 30 minutes ago | |
| @gracieermi & I are happy to announce the latest update to the Conservation Tech Directory, bringing our total... |
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Acoustic Monitoring, AI for Conservation, Biologging, Camera Traps, Community Base, Data management and processing tools , Drones, eDNA & Genomics, Remote Sensing & GIS, Software and Mobile Apps | 18 hours 23 minutes ago | |
| Oh awesome, I hadn't heard of those brands beforehand, thanks for mentioning them! |
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Camera Traps | 18 hours 31 minutes ago | |
| Yes!That's what we've achieved with a leg strap device and now moving to collar base devices.Kr,David |
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Biologging, Emerging Tech, Sensors | 1 day 1 hour ago | |
| Hi @SaraTC, I can see that the products CERES TAG and CERES WILD have been mentioned in the thread. Some information on the tagsThey are the only commercial, direct to... |
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Biologging | 1 day 3 hours ago |
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Jennifer Whitener
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With a background in cross cultural approaches to conservation, Jennifer currently leads a suite of capacity development programs aimed at creating innovative, inclusive and impact driven solutions to global conservation issues.
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23 June 2022
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This position will support WCS’ training and capacity development work, specifically by supporting the global capacity building efforts of the Learning and Leadership for Conservation (LLC) program, including CLP and...
23 June 2022
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Our fourth and final meetup in Season 4 explored the future of movement ecology, including tools that could change the game and questions we might not yet have thought to ask. On June 8, we heard short talks from...
22 June 2022
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ARSET webinar series - Monitoring Aquatic Vegetation with Remote Sensing
27 June 2022
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23 June 2022
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New papers on passive acoustic monitoring
21 June 2022
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A new web portal for annotating bird sounds has been opened called Bird Sounds Global (BSG). It is part of project LIFEPLAN, and its key objective is to develop global, automated software for bird sound identification.
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- New app aims to take a bite out of illegal shark fin trade
Powered by artificial intelligence, a new app called Fin Finder enables customs inspectors to take a photo of a shark or ray fin and identify it within seconds. Developed by Conservation International in partnership with Singapore’s National Parks Board, and supported by Microsoft and other partners, this app could help governments confiscate illegal animal parts that are hidden in plain sight.
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Our fourth and final meetup in Season 4 explored the future of movement ecology, including tools that could change the game and questions we might not yet have thought to ask. On June 8, we heard 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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Mongabay article on the recently launched Centre for Wildlife Forensics in Singapore, noting their successes so far in catching wildlife traffickers and uncovering trafficking routes
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- New article (Reuters): Orca stuck in river to be lured to sea using drone with loudspeakers
"A drone emitting orca sounds will be used in attempt to guide the animal, whose health is fast deteriorating"
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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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