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discussion / AI for Conservation  / 13 September 2023

Q&A: UK NERC £3.6m AI (image) for Biodiversity Funding Call - ask your questions here

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In our last Variety Hour, Simon Gardner, Head of Digital Environment at NERC, popped in to share more about their open £3.6m funding call supporting innovation in tools for automating image analysis for biodiversity monitoring. Check out his session recording below. 

If you have any questions for Simon and the NERC team about these calls or the other initiatives he shared in his talk, drop them in the comments below and we'll make sure they pick them up. 

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Andrew Quitmeyer
@hikinghack
DIY electronics for behavioral field biology
WILDLABS Event Speaker
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21 September 2023 4:27pm

This is super cool! Me and @Hubertszcz and @briannajohns and several others are all working towards some big biodiversity monitoring projects for a large conservation project here in panama. The conservation project is happening already, but hubert starts on the ground work in January and im working on a V3 of our open source automated insect monitoring box to have ready for him by then.

 

I guess my main question would be if this funding call is appropriate/interested for this type of project? and what types of assistance are possible through this type of funding (researchers? design time? materials? laboratory field construction)