Wildlife tracking technologies have already massively advanced our understanding of the natural world, from uncovering previously mysterious migration patterns and key movement corridors to demonstrating the impacts of anthropogenic pressures and climate change. Recent advances in the development of technologies for collecting and transmitting biologging data have unlocked the potential for fine-scale data collection at a near-global scale, which when integrated with remotely sensed environmental data offers an unprecedented biological lens into ecosystem health and environmental change (Jetz et al. 2022).
New technologies on the horizon include small satellites like CubeSats, which are being investigated by NASA, the ICARUS Initiative's satellite system, and a variety of other ventures aiming to improve the coverage, accuracy, and capacity of wildlife tracking data collection. Combined with the increased availability of high-resolution environmental data and analytical developments in movement modeling, these advancements are empowering movement ecologists to ask previously unanswerable or unimaginable questions. It’s clear that this discipline sits at the precipice of major breakthroughs that could revolutionize our understanding of animal movement and the natural world.
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WILDLABS and Fauna & Flora International are seeking an early career Vietnamese conservationist for 12-month paid internship position to grow and support the Southeast Asia regional community in our global...
11 January 2023
The University of Alaska Fairbanks is seeking a research Post Doctoral Fellow to work in collaboration with the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The position will focus on using Machine...
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First known baited underwater video match of an individual white shark, based on facial scars and other unique features White shark undertakes 1,100-mile (1800-km) transboundary swim from South Africa to Mozambique
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This position (at California State University, Long Beach) provides data management & analysis support to Shark Lab research operations including shark tagging, active tracking, receiver data, AUV & UAV data...
24 October 2022
*New closing date!* WILDLABS and Fauna & Flora International are seeking an early career conservationist for 12-month paid internship position to grow and support the Southeast Asia regional community in our global...
19 October 2022
Oregon State University researchers have developed a new satellite tag that allows them to better track whales’ behavior, including previously unobservable feeding events during dives.
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This role will be employed under Osa Conservation's Movement Ecology Program. Broadly, the project aims to develop and use novel animal tracking technology to increase our understanding of the movement ecology of...
22 September 2022
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The European Biodiversity Partnership Biodiversa+, co-funded by the European Union, has launched a call for research proposals on “Improved transnational monitoring of biodiversity and ecosystem change for science and...
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Boost cons tech capacity at an international NGO! Fauna & Flora International is offering a paid three-month internship to consolidate and share best practices for the application of emerging hardware and software...
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Hello everyone, I'm interested in gathering insights on how the behavior of different species impacts the development and efficacy of... |
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Biologging, Acoustics, Camera Traps, eDNA & Genomics, Emerging Tech, Marine Conservation | 2 months 2 weeks ago | |
Hello Peter, Have you find a solution ? I will be happy to discuss with you about your project and field challenges ? Best,Virginie |
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Biologging | 2 months 2 weeks ago | |
Thank you Carly, I will definitely take a look. |
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Acoustics, Biologging, Climate Change, Conservation Tech Training and Education, Data management and processing tools, Remote Sensing & GIS, Software and Mobile Apps | 2 months 2 weeks ago | |
Hi all, I am searching for marine species projects that monitor orientation/IMU and/or acceleration data... |
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Biologging, Marine Conservation | 2 months 3 weeks ago | |
Hi Gabriel,Our TagRanger Tags can be used for tracking turtles, we already have a tracking project commencing soon in South America for ~40 turtles...https://www.tagranger.... |
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Biologging | 3 months ago | |
Thank you for the help! |
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Biologging, Emerging Tech | 3 months 3 weeks ago | |
We will be conducting in-person demos of our cutting-edge drone technology in the US this year! 🇺🇸 If you're interested in experiencing... |
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Biologging, Drones, Remote Sensing & GIS, Software and Mobile Apps | 3 months 3 weeks ago | |
I have a few suggestions Maggie. Hopefully one or more will be useful. Preprocessing - Compressing the data before transmission will reduce file size and reduce transmission... |
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Biologging | 3 months 3 weeks ago | |
Hi Danilo. you seem very passionate about this initiative which is a good start.It is an interesting coincidence that I am starting another project for the coral reefs in the... |
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Acoustics, AI for Conservation, Biologging, Camera Traps, Citizen Science, Climate Change, Community Base, Connectivity, Drones, Emerging Tech, Human-Wildlife Conflict, Open Source Solutions, Sensors, Software and Mobile Apps, Wildlife Crime | 4 months ago | |
Hi Bill,I don't believe I will need them to be extremely accurate, but will need a good degree of accuracy for some behavioral classification and habitat use analyses. In regards... |
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Biologging | 4 months 1 week ago | |
Hi @ThomasGray_Argos, @YvanSG and @hjayanto,Thank you all for getting in touch. Luckily the Cat Island Institute via YME Bahamas got in touch and prepared an expedition to... |
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Biologging | 4 months 2 weeks ago | |
Super cool! thank you for sharing! |
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Ocean Tracking Network Symposium 2022
5 August 2022 2:47pm
SnapperGPS device giveaway
5 August 2022 12:53pm
Opportunity: Postdoctoral Researcher
4 August 2022 9:08pm
Get to Know WILDBEAR Awardee Alyssa Bohart
27 July 2022 10:12pm
Firetail - Tutorial Series 22.3 - An introduction to Firetail - Update 2022
26 July 2022 8:16pm
Glad to announce I just replaced the Firetail introductory tutorial with a 2022 revision centered around Firetail 9:
- general concepts
- Movebank data handling
- Map Viewport
- Studies handling
- Annotation overview
- AI-based segmentation overview (FireSOM)
and quite a bit more to get you an idea what is possible with the new version.
Postdoc: Spatial Ecology & Conservation of Bustard spp.
22 July 2022 7:45pm
Postdoc: Biologging & Behavioral Ecology of Marine Mammals
22 July 2022 7:42pm
International Workshop on Animal Movement Ecology & Human Mobility
22 July 2022 7:25pm
British Ecological Society Movement Ecology conference
22 July 2022 7:20pm
CERES TAG
22 July 2022 3:36am
Earth Species Project - Senior AI Research Scientist
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Conservation Data Coordinator
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New Conservation Tech Directory update
27 June 2022 4:45pm
Elephant Collar
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16 June 2022 11:33pm
Great work @kangs and Technology For Wildlife Africa! Can I ask, what's the collar material made out of?
Cheers,
Rob
25 June 2022 3:26pm
its nylon rubber material
WILDLABS Virtual Meetup: Future Questions & Tools in Movement Ecology (Recording)
22 June 2022 10:24pm
On the lookout for CAD/Microcontroller work!
17 June 2022 5:04pm
Virtual Meetup Discussion: Future Questions & Tools in Movement Ecology
7 June 2022 9:38pm
11 June 2022 4:42pm
We've actually been looking into NFC to automatically provision field devices to set/read/store metadata. We're staring down the barrel of a large deployment and metadata is one of the issues that we think really needs automation. We're thinking of having a dedicated device to write and read the tags that would go on the devices as stickers and automagically sync the metadata with the database. An added bonus would be that most recently modern phones support NFC protocols like NTAG or MiFare Classic. That would mean that they could also be both read and written with the GPS coordinates, timestamp, etc as they're deployed in the field. It's still under discussion with the many other things that need to be implemented, though. I do think it's interesting that what we're seeing in a lot of conservation technology applications is not just a need for new technology but also the less exciting but more practical need for things that improve productivity like automating metadata management.
12 June 2022 1:08am
Using NFC makes a lot of sense too. I'm just on an older lower-end device that doesn't support it, which is why it didn't pop immediately to mind. Would be interesting to see what the adoption rate for NFC-capable phones is across countries though I'd imagine some phone manufacturer or something already has that data.
12 June 2022 2:29am
A bit opposite of what you're looking for but according to this, the share of non-NFC enabled phones was 10% in 2020. They don't state their source unless you pay, but I suspect that's in terms of total phone models, not total phones in use. So it's highly likely that phones with no NFC in use is much higher than that.
Ocean Tracking Network - Telemetry Data Study Hall
8 June 2022 6:48pm
Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Ungulate Ecology Lab
8 June 2022 1:32pm
Heart rate detected with accelerometers
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Hi Max,
Well firstly, welcome! This is a great intro - I'm looking forward to having a poke around these links and reading more about your work. Sounds like you might well be interested in the topic of our meetup next week - we'll be talking about the future of biologging and biologging, the emerging tech and questions we should be paying attention to. I can't remember if I've seen your name pop up in our last few events, but hopefully will see you there! More below if you're interested!
Steph
WILDLABS Virtual Meetup: Future Questions & Tools in Movement Ecology | WILDLABS
Our fourth and final meetup in Season 4 will explore the future of movement ecology, including tools that could change the game and questions we might not yet have thought to ask. Join us Wednesday, June 8 at 3:00 PM BST / 10:00 AM EDT to hear short talks from leading experts Christian Rutz, Ran Nathan, Martin Wikelski, and Tanya Berger-Wolf, followed by open discussion and community exchange.
WILDLABS Virtual Meetup: Data Sharing and Archiving in Movement Ecology (Recording)
31 May 2022 11:03pm
Argos satellite tag open-source grant
14 August 2020 5:43pm
26 August 2020 4:07pm
The official announcement went out yesterday - https://mailchi.mp/1e130f609ed2/august2020?e=[UNIQID]
31 May 2022 3:56pm
We are still running this grant program albeit with subtle changes to improve the hardware/service agreement (in your favor).
If you want to build your own tag, have a passion for open-source, and at minimum have a North American ship-to address, reach out.
New paper: A practical approach with drones, smartphones, and tracking tags for potential real-time animal tracking
29 May 2022 1:15pm
WILDLABS Virtual Meetup: Future Questions & Tools in Movement Ecology
24 May 2022 10:10pm
WILDLABS Virtual Meetup: Data Analysis in Movement Ecology (Recording)
12 May 2022 10:03pm
WILDLABS Virtual Meetup: Data Sharing & Archiving in Movement Ecology
10 May 2022 11:26pm
WILDLABS Virtual Meetup: Data Collection in Movement Ecology (recording)
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WILDLABS Virtual Meetups Season Four: Tracking Progress
29 April 2022 9:57am
WILDLABS Virtual Meetup: Data Analysis in Movement Ecology
26 April 2022 12:00am
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