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Come work with us! WILDLABS and WWF are seeking a graduate intern to support our conservation technology research programme by investigating trends, gaps, and opportunities for advancement across the sector. Accepting...
14 March 2023
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Come work with us! WILDLABS and WWF are seeking an undergraduate intern to help us grow our signature #Tech4Wildlife Photo Challenge event. Accepting applications now!
14 March 2023
Discussion / AI for Conservation | Emerging Tech
ChatGPT for conservation
Isobel Ashbey
Hi, I've been wondering what this community's thoughts are on ChatGPT? I was just having a play with it and asked:"could you write me a script in python that loads photos...
16 January 2023
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Event / East Africa Community | Wildlife Crime
In this episode, Moses Otiende from Kenya Wildlife Service will lead a tutorial on: 'How do I select an ivory sampling method to generate intelligence data?' by unpacking the use of DNA evidence in wildlife crime. ...
15 March 2023
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Discussion / Drones | Marine Conservation + 1
Hi, new to Wildlabs and happy to have found itI am currently working on drone design (fixed wing), for the purpose of monitoring illegal fishing vessels. This will be done via...
20 March 2023
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| Dropping in to add a link to the Mongabay podcast, just to save anyone interested a google. |
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Community Base | 2 hours 44 minutes ago | |
| Hi Nick,First up, disclaimer that I'm not really into hardware stuff, but here's my best understanding.Shameless plug but take a look here if you haven't already - there's a... |
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Acoustic Monitoring, Sensors | 3 hours 26 minutes ago | |
| Hi all. I'm currently exploring options for data storage en masse. With our project we will be collecting 24hr hydrophone data, drone... |
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Acoustic Monitoring, Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects, Camera Traps, Data management and processing tools , Drones, Protected Area Management Tools, Remote Sensing & GIS, Software and Mobile Apps | 9 hours 2 minutes ago | |
| Interesting thoughts. 1. Great - if it makes it easier for everyone GREAT. If we can all spend less time writing about what makes us good and worthy of funding it means... |
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AI for Conservation, Emerging Tech | 19 hours 10 minutes ago | |
| Hi Sarah,I am working with @Max_Sitt on the same project to develop artificial flowers as a platform for hoverfly monitoring (also as a landing platform for his camera trap).We... |
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Camera Traps, Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects | 19 hours 36 minutes ago | |
| Hey Amelia, thanks for reaching out and sorry for my late feedback. I am sharing my address: [email protected] for more conversation about this. we can schedule an online call... |
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Marine Conservation | 23 hours 22 minutes ago | |
| Oh, great link! Been doing marine projects recently and a big headache is protecting submerged electronics. I've kind of heard of many of those techniques, but great to see them... |
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Biologging, Marine Conservation, Sensors | 1 day 3 hours ago | |
| Our project in very short is, setting up a sensor network for monitoring airborne biomass, mainly insects, birds and bats in near realtime, and to develop a forecast model to be... |
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Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects, Biologging, Remote Sensing & GIS, Sensors | 1 day 21 hours ago | |
| I have enjoyed the recent podcast on Monique the first animal(s) to carry a satellite collar, the ICARUS project etc. Also, regarding... |
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Biologging | 1 day 21 hours ago | |
| Hi, new to Wildlabs and happy to have found itI am currently working on drone design (fixed wing), for the purpose of monitoring illegal... |
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Drones, Marine Conservation, Wildlife Crime | 2 days 6 hours ago | |
| Thanks Thomas! I haven't found any wing-tag avian trackers like I described. Although, similar models have been made for terrestrial animals in the form of ear tags. I... |
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Biologging | 3 days 6 hours ago | |
| Hi All,I an recent joiner to WILDLABS and really enjoyed the Variety Hour last month and I am looking forward to finding out more about all the cool work people do here.What kind... |
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Community Base | 3 days 17 hours ago |
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Data Visualization Fundamentals and Best Practices Course
Stephanie O'Donnell
When do you use a bar chart over a line chart? What are area charts good for? What's wrong with pie charts? Learn about how these different types of data visualization work, and how they're used, in Observable's first...
21 March 2023
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Python for Geographers (video)
Stephanie O'Donnell
This technical workshop was recorded at the Esri Developer Summit 2021. Presenters use packages to make GIS workflows reproducible through code, work with spatial data and make relevant maps using open source packages...
21 March 2023
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ARSET - Fundamentals of Machine Learning for Earth Science
Stephanie O'Donnell
This training of three 1.5h sessions will provide attendees an overview of machine learning in regards to Earth Science, and how to apply these algorithms and techniques to remote sensing data in a meaningful way....
21 March 2023
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Using eDNA to survey Country: Traditional Owner Training & Certification Program (Part 3 of 3)
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Importance of eDNA survey design (Part 1 of 3)
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💙 Exciting news from Appsilon! Our flagship project, Mbaza AI, is expanding its impact on nature and biodiversity conservation. We’ve teamed up with the 🦏 Ol Pejeta Conservancy to build a model for classifying images of plains animals that use their migratory corridors.
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- Zooplankton Prosome and Lipid Sac Segmentation
A machine learning-based solution that can segment the Prosomes and Lipid sacs with sufficient accuracy helps to recognize the ecological plasticity of key Arctic copepods. It allows scientists to learn more about the relationship between the size and volume of two components of planktonic organisms: the prosome (the main body) and the lipid sac (energy reserves accumulated by copepods before winter).
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The Zoological Society of London, with the support of WILDLABS and the UK Space Agency, are proud to publish this new guide to satellite technologies for tracking wildlife.
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The guide considers four different types of samples (water, sediments, invertebrate collections and diatoms), and two primary analysis types (single species detection via methods such as qPCR and assessment of biological communities via metabarcoding). At each stage of the field and laboratory process the guide sets out the scientific consensus on best practice, as well as the choices that need to be made and the trade-offs they entail. In particular, the guide considers how the choices may be influenced by common practical constraints such as logistics, time and budget.
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Tech Tutors Season 4
East Africa
Are you looking for ways to grow your conservation technology knowledge and skills this year? Tech Tutors: East Africa is your opportunity to learn practical skills and steps that will become the building blocks you need to push your conservation tech work and research forward!
Our new season of Tech Tutors begins this week and will run through to the end of May! On the 9th of February 2023 (4-5pm, EAT | 1-2pm GMT), Arthur Muneza will take us through our first tutorial: How do I fit GPS satellite tags to remotely monitor giraffe movements? With lessons from his work with the awarding winning Twiga Tracker Initiative, Arthur will provide the foundational tools and technical know-how of starting off a biologging project.
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EarthRanger: All you need to know!
Netty Cheruto
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