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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Increasingly complex research questions and global challenges are driving rapid development, refinement, and uses of technology in ecology. This trend is spawning a distinct sub‐discipline, dubbed “technoecology” by...
9 May 2018
Hundreds of people joined our #Tech4Wildlife photo challenge this year, showcasing all the incredible ways tech is being used to support wildlife conservation. We've seen proximity loggers on Tasmanian Devils in...
3 March 2018
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A new research project is looking to investigate whether technology combined with the ancient skills and knowledge of Namibian trackers can help save cheetahs from extinction. Called FIT Cheetahs, the research project...
4 December 2017
What makes a good detection dog handler? Is it something that can be taught and learnt over time, or is it something more intuitive? Do some people just have what it takes, and other people don’t? At the start of 2017...
3 November 2017
In this From the Field interview, we speak to Dr. Raman Sukumar, a world renowned expert on Asian elephant conservation. He shares his thoughts on how technology could be used for mitigating elephant-human conflict, and...
5 April 2017
Satellite tracking is the state of the art of technology for mapping wildlife movement. But what if your budget is not state of the art? In our second From the Field interview, we're talking with WILDLABS member and GIS...
29 March 2017
Are you ready for this year's #Tech4Wildlife Photo Challenge? In anticipation, we're counting down our ten favourite entries from last year. Do you think you can top these?
1 March 2017
The Conservation Leadership Programme (CLP) is a training and capacity building programme that targets individuals from developing countries who are early in their conservation career and demonstrate leadership...
21 November 2016
Do you work on conserving Neotropical migratory birds? Do you need funding? Why not apply for a grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service through the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act's grant program? The...
8 November 2016
Caves don't tend to be well-liked ecosystems, being extremely dark, often quite cramped, and slippery. And the creepy-crawlies that live within them can be the stuff of nightmares. Nevertheless, one's attitude towards...
25 July 2016
Holohil Systems is now accepting applications for grants to support the purchase of wildlife tracking equipment of up to CDN $2,000 from the Holohil's own product line. Applications are welcome from any geographical...
20 July 2016
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Current efforts to track endangered Green Sea Turtles rely on tags that cost upward of $2000 per unit. Alasdair Davies of the Zoological Society of London has been working with Luka Mustafa, a Shuttleworth Foundation...
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Hi Kyler, That's great! Thank you for the lead - I'll get in touch with them asap. Cheers, and all the best, Kas |
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https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/rse2.191 This paper may be of interest! And the latest Oryx edition is all camera-trap papers - ... |
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Biologging | 3 years 3 months ago | |
Interesting! The µMoth initiative also seems very promising. They seem to be employed on dogs now as preparation for use on wild dogs in the Carnivore Bytes... |
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Biologging | 3 years 3 months ago | |
LoRa based cattle tracking tags made by Moovement are used for bison in the US by Hila Shamon. Their biggest limitation as I see it is that they need continous connection... |
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Biologging | 3 years 3 months ago | |
Hi Wildlabbers, This week's Tech Tutors Season 2 epsiode will see our sixth tutor, Sarah Deans, tackle... |
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Biologging | 3 years 4 months ago | |
Hi Dennis, I actually work in the graduate career center at my university (my fellowship is doing that rather than teaching) and this is what we specialize in! I too am a... |
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Biologging | 3 years 4 months ago | |
Hi all you Wild folk! I'd like to ask if anyone has used CVEDIA's ARTEMIS or WildEyes AI before for recognising animals along... |
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Biologging | 3 years 5 months ago | |
Thanks Ellie - I signed up : ) |
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Biologging | 3 years 6 months ago | |
Thanks Thomas. The option of desertstar seems strong, and it needs to be strong for the animals I work with (large carnivores). Indeed the pod would need to be designed to fit the... |
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Biologging | 3 years 8 months ago | |
Hi all, Firstly, I'd just like to say a big thank you to everyone who attended my Tech Tutors presentation last month. And secondly, thank you for your patience in allowing... |
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Hi @aponzo Take a look at the Woods Hole Group newsletter this month. They are giving away some Developer Kits - https://mailchi.mp/1e130f609ed2/august2020?fbclid=... |
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Hi Everyone, I'm Anthony Lindley, a PhD candidate at the University of Southampton. I mainly work with computer vision but would like to branch out and try other ML... |
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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
15 July 2022 6:40pm
Conservation Data Coordinator
15 July 2022 11:02am
New Conservation Tech Directory update
27 June 2022 4:45pm
Elephant Collar
11 June 2022 3:53pm
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
1 June 2022 11:41pm
2 June 2022 8:08am
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)
9 May 2022 3:51pm
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
30 August 2022 6:24pm