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 @TaliaSpeaker
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
2 July 2021 5:10pm
Read more:
- The problem with innovation challenges
- Project Rattlecam. Read more about Project Rattlecam founder Emily Taylor’s work using conservation tech with snakes on WILDLABS here.
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Individual haplotyping of whale sharks from seawater environmental DNA (June 2021)
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eDNA sampled from stream networks correlates with camera trap detection rates of terrestrial mammals
Carly's in case you missed it:
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New Species on WildMe: new wildbooks (Grouper Spotter, Salamander Wildbook), ML support now for bobcats, clouded leopards, ocelots, great white sharks, Indo-pacific humpback whales, bottlenose dolphins
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SeaBee: establish drone-based infrastructure for scientific research in Norway (pilot training, data storage, ML algorithms, specs/data standards, etc.)
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Reckoning with elitism & racism in conservation: Mongabay article, interview with Colleen Begg, South African conservationist
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Underwater AI detection: created by Jake Easterling of Scubotics, upload videos and ID the fish you saw!
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Evidensia.eco: From WWF, Rainforest Alliance & iseal; effort to make credible evidence about impacts & effectiveness of market-based sustainability approaches accessible to inform policy & practice
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CarbonPlan: non-profit that analyzes climate solutions, builds open tools/resources for evaluation & deployment of them, improving transparency & scientific integrity of carbon remocal
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DevelopmentSeed: engineering & product company accelerating application of accessible geospatial analysis (Cloud Geo), planetary AI, etc. to make evidence-based decisions that benefit the planet
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Remotely monitoring honeybees: Best Bees Company installs hives on commercial and residential properties (pays property owners) & use software system to monitor and record colony health, data shared with researchers
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GoodAI community: “empowering companies that use AI to help deliver on SDG’s”; online discussion boards, company directory, job board, responsible AI resources
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Highest resolution global map released: from Impact Observatory, Esri & Microsoft AI for Earth; using Sentinel-2 imagery at 10-m resolution & image segmentation CNN (UNet)
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Brazil’s wildlife forensics initiative: Amazonas state using isotope ratio mass spec to detect geographic origin of animals (captive-bred vs wild-caught, and where in the wild), products (timber, gold, etc.)
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ConservationAI: UK ngo detecting & classifying animals, evidence of illegal activity from pictures and thermal images collected by camera traps, drones (can use 3/4G comm’s for real-time monitoring); upload data to site, models (TensorFlow automatically run them and give you analytics dashboard
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New Analytics Lab from Conservation Science Partners (US non-profit): develop & prototype software, computational environments & data products to monitor land use, analyze ecosystems, develop climate change projections, etc.
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eBioAtlas: from NatureMetrics & IUCN; creating global atlas of life for Earth’s rivers & wetlands using eDNA; interfaces with IUCN RedList & GBIF; freely available
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Global Environmental Crime Tracker: from the Environmental Investigation Agency; central public database of illegal wildlife & timber activity (pulls from publicly available info, media coverage); currently for Asia, Africa & Europe
Stephanie O'Donnell
WILDLABS