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Anyone can become a citizen scientist - even experts! If you're excited about exploring new areas of conservation tech, contributing to projects, or developing and launching your own citizen science projects or apps, this is the group for you.

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Animal tracking stories

Wildlife Drones

22 May 2023 2:19am

Do you have a wild animal tracking story that involves adventure or misadventure? Share it with us! From going around in circles for hours to discovering predators instead...

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Happywhale: AI-Powered Whale Identification

Happywhale

16 May 2023 10:00am

In this Conservation Tech Showcase case study from Happywhale, you’ll learn about how AI tools are helping researchers and citizen scientists identify and protect humpback whales. 

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Crowdsourcing individual ID for pop dyn?

Than Hitt

1 May 2023 5:36pm

Hi! I'm trying to estimate abundance and survival in freshwater fish populations (trout and salmon) using AI for individual recognition from crowdsourced data:...

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Phil Mitchell

5 May 2023 6:15pm

That sounds like a really neat project! Do fish get re-caught often enough that individual ID is useful? Is sample bias (more data from popular spots) an issue?

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Data upload solution for a citizen science project?

Jim Lovell

21 September 2022 8:55pm

Hi everyone. I’m looking to build a web-based data upload server for a citizen science project...

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Pshemek Zdroik

20 October 2022 10:54am

If you have a server and can host a solution, install on the server your own instance of  Next Cloud, Pydio  or similar - it's exactly what you need without reinventing the wheel. 

 

Sebastian Büttrich

23 October 2022 8:25am

Strongly supporting the Nextcloud/owncloud suggestion -
apart from bringing everything you list in your requirements, it would give you a lot of features that might be useful as the project grows (versioning, failover for lost/failed data, sharing, ..)

Available for more advice, if needed.

Frank van der Most

19 January 2023 5:21pm

Hi Jim, could you please update us on your final choice and experience so far?

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Crowdfunding Aerial Baseline Study of Ghost Gear in Koh Phangan, Thailand

Sol Milne

18 December 2022 11:06am

We are developing a project in Thailand, using drones to locate lost & discarded fishing gear across Koh Phangan, Thailand.
We're 86% there & only need $1500 to get us over the line. If you can help us, we would really appreciate it!
This project uses drones to create a baseline survey of lost fishing gear & document effects of entanglement on marine species.
We are working with Core Sea & Koh Phangan Sea Guardians to develop a locally led method for ongoing monitoring for discarded fishing gear, using drones.
Thank you, Sol, Tania & Kat

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Using social media for Citizen Science projects - examples

Natalia

21 June 2022 2:40pm

Hi everyone, I am a first-year student on the MS in HCI at RIT, and I am working on a school project about using social media platforms for citizen science projects ( I am...

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Adrià Lopez

4 November 2022 8:32pm

Hi Natalia!

This is not for birds, but we are running a whole bat monitoring programme based on citizen science, and every tool we have prepared is ready to be used at European scale! You can find all the information here: www.batmonitoring.org

Feel free to contact me if you need any information. 

All the best!!

Adrià

Natalia

19 November 2022 6:44pm

Hi Adrià! 

Thanks for sharing the link and congrats on the plans to upscale it! I will explore the page more and reach out with a few questions about setting up stations and the data collection process.

Thanks again! Have a nice weekend!

Natalia

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New paper: Integrating machine learning, remote sensing and citizen science to create an early warning system for biodiversity

Carly Batist

7 November 2022 7:10pm

Opinion paper describing "how data acquired from remote sensing, citizen science & other monitoring approaches could feed in near-real time to an early warning system for biodiversity that integrates automated red-listing of species with the identification of priority areas for conservation."

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Software to aid acoustic sound files visualization/labelling + Software to syncronize video/acoustic sonograms

Adrià Lopez

23 September 2022 1:01pm

Hi everybody!I am currently trying to figure out if there is any open-source software that could improve our citizen science project on bat monitoring in Europe (and potentially...

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Colin Cook

8 October 2022 12:44am

I would also recommend Arbimon. It is well set up to handle Audiomoth recordings. Being cloud based, you will need a good internet connection for sound file upload. I'm just starting to investigate its use for Song Scope recordings. Setting up the call recognisers will be a slow process, but they can be made available to all users once done.

Matthew Stanton

8 October 2022 7:33am

You could try using a video editor like DaVinci for looking at your video and audio together. I don't think DaVinci displays sonograms by default (just waveform) but I think it will open your selected audio in an external editor which would allow you to see the sonograms and make measurements with something like Audacity or Kaleidoscope.

Pshemek Zdroik

20 October 2022 11:01am

The open-source program Audacity can show the spectrograms and histograms and has quite a lot of other useful features, e.g. playing ultrasound calls slower, so it can be heard by people. 

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