You’re invited to the WILDLABS Variety Hour, our monthly community event connecting you to the exciting projects, research, and ideas that are happening in conservation tech right now.
You never know what you’ll find and who you’ll meet at our Variety Hour, and that’s part of the fun! You might catch speed talks from community members working around the world, learn from a leading conservation tech expert, discover a new tool, test your wildlife trivia skills, find a great opportunity - maybe you’ll even do all of the above.
The WILDLABS Variety Hour isn’t a show, or a lecture, or a workshop. It's an engaging, fun, and interactive gathering, giving you a welcoming space to share your own projects and resources, ask and answer questions, have insightful conversations, meet collaborators, make friends, and get to know the conservation tech community in a new way.
Great ideas and discussions are sparked when people who share a passion for conservation tech unite. When you come along to the Variety Hour, you’re joining a space full of people who care about conservation tech just like you; when you leave the Variety Hour, we hope you’ll take away fresh inspiration and the knowledge that you belong to a global community who are making an impact in our field all around the world.
The Variety Hour: October 2025
This month, we have three speed talks from Parker DePond, Carolina Ugarte, Lindsey Higgins, and a long talk from Pen-Yuan Hsing.
Parker DePond will start things off by discussing how Near Infrared Spectrometry (NIR) can be used as a non-invasive identifier in mammals, and its potential for autonomous mark recapture studies. Next, Carolina Ugartewill share about her research connecting acoustic recording devices to camera traps to test acoustic risk cues. Afterwards, Lindsey Higgins will introduce Pivotal, which uses machine learning models and a global network of ecological experts to measure ecosystem condition. Finally, Pen-Yuan Hsing will dive into the importance (and misconceptions around) open source tech for conservation.
Sound fun? We'll see you there!
Agenda
- @Pldepond | Vein Scanning For Autonomous Mammal Identification
- @csugarte | Testing acoustic risk cues to deter small carnivores from approaching poultry in Southern Chile
- @thelindscape | Building a global community of ecological experts with Pivotal
- Intermission | The WILDLABS Quiz
- @Nycticebus_scientia | open source tech: definitions, misconceptions, and importance
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