Hi everyone,
Lovely to see everyone at this week's journal club! Here are the slides & links from this week's journal club if you want to dig in and read more. If you read any these papers and want to share your thoughts, please jump in the thread below.
Big thanks to this week's presenters: @carlybatist @EllieW @dtsavage
About Journal Club
Every second friday, we come along with a cool project, paper or technology to share - everyone gets 1 slide, 3 mins to present. If you'd like to join, drop a comment below and I'll make sure you get a calendar invite to join + our slide template.
Happy Friday everyone, have a good weekend!
Steph
4 June 2021 5:06pm
Read more:
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The G.AI.A series: Artificial Intelligence and Planetary-Scale Environmental Management, @davethau: https://medium.com/g-ai-a
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Dave Thau’s talk at the WILDLABS Virtual Meetup about Big Data in Conservation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixhGqPGxtb8&list=PLWcz3iwCnCqTOdY5AGWdxcv9gczUpmvmG&index=31&t=1s
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Annotation Interface for Data-driven Ecology (AIDE) version, Benjamin Kellenberger -https://github.com/microsoft/aerial_wildlife_detection, Paper: https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13489
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A standardisation framework for bio-logging data to advance ecological research and conservation, Sequeira et al: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210X.13593
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Slope does not affect autonomous recorder detection shape: considerations for acoustic monitoring in forested landscapes, Shaw, Muller, and Scherer-Lorenzen, University of Freiburg: https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=tbio20
@carlybatist 's in Case You Missed It
- Platform to green supply chains – chocolate maker Barry Callebaut funds EcoVision’s new sat-imagery carbon map based on to help companies avoid deforestation in their supply chains (https://news.mongabay.com/2021/06/chocolate-giant-funds-high-resolution-carbon-map-to-protect-forests/)
- Business Alliance to Scale Climate Solutions – SalesForce, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Netflix, Disney, UNEP, EDF, WWF (https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/556706-tech-entertainment-giants-joining-environmental-groups-un-to-reduce)
- Trase platform – data-driven transparency initiative; supply chain mapping, commodity & trade sustainability assessments, accountability for environmental impacts (https://www.trase.earth/)
- Conservation optimism! – 2 islands in the Galapagos declared invasive-rat-free thanks to grid of drone-deployed bait traps (https://www.islandconservation.org/invasive-rodents-no-longer-threaten-wildlife-seymour-norte-island-mosquera-islet/)
- Digital Service for the Planet – 30+ conservation org’s join Environmental Policy Innovation Center to call for federal program aggregating resources currently spread out among different and pursue other AI & tech solutions (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/creating-digital-service-planet-timothy-male/)
- SafetyNet Technologies – offering free advisory sessions to anyone in fishing industry (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdzAHai4OaEEIIU7le0eiNVISD4dAJbJrF4rb1JBjA6ikdNlg/viewform)
- PalmOil.io – for businesses to identify deforestation in their supply chain and track environmental risks from suppliers (https://palmoil.io/)
Stephanie O'Donnell
WILDLABS