Do you want me to put you in touch with folks at my company who know the second hand lab supplies market extremely well and might be able to help you buy the right centrifuge second hand?

@ffyngau out of interest, what are you using the centrifuge for? Avian health research in Denali NP? @mattypie thanks so much for your offer to help connect with an affordable supplier.

Hi Emily, 

Rachel has some practical suggestions about rigging your current centrifuge up to fit the small tubes. What do you think - vIable? 

1) If you're measuring hematocrit, perhaps using flat-bottomed vials which do fit (less accurate though)
2) taping capillary tube in the tubes that fit (flat against bottom for clay retention)
3) try taping two support rods across the top to hold opposing capillary tubes

— Rachel Skubel (@rachelskubel) March 29, 2018

Steph

I second Nilanga's words -- inspiring and valuable experience and innovative results from this event. It was an amazing opportunity to meet and network with a group of professionals and individuals (there as mentors) working in the conservation technology space. 

The best part for me -- is this is run out of the Engineering school! So awesome to see engineering students applying their skills and smarts to conservation problems -- let's grow that conservation tech field and profession. 

Other submission for review and comment on devpost - https://blueprint.devpost.com/

Congratulations on the release of your app, @SueOrloff . Crowd-sourcing reporting of suspected illegal ivory in retail by members of the public, is a great concept (keeping verification and security considerations in mind). Given that there are many elephant ivory look-alikes on the market, including in online trade, it's important to ensure proper identification when users submit reports. TRAFFIC and WWF put together a visual ID guide many years ago, which can be downloaded here: http://www.traffic.org/publications/identification-guide-for-ivory-substitutes.html and the US Fish & Wildlife Service has an online guide to visual identification here: https://www.fws.gov/lab/ivory_natural.php. 

Hi @Nafeesa+Esmail - are you already in touch with the TRAFFIC Network about this survey?

Thanks Steph,  

I appreciate a semi-regular summary document - it might only occasionally throw up a 'new' story for community members (depends on other media followed / library access) but it could be that one story that gives someone the next bright idea for their project (and is also no doubt appreciated by the developers / contributors).

MJ

Hi Carlos and others working on bird bioacoustics, 

@SteffenOppel flagged a new issue of Avian Conservation and Ecology that might be of interest as it nicely intersects with what you were looking at in your workshop and follow up survey. This issue is about Advancing bird population monitoring with acoustic recording technologies, and is available here. 

Presumably you've closed the survey now, did you get useful feedback from it that complements the information collected from delegates? What are your next steps for this work? 

Cheers, 

Steph