I finally managed to sit down and write my intro! So glad to be here and meet you in the future. 

Why I joined Wildlabs:

Reversing the biodiversity crisis is the biggest task of our species. So I strongly believe in collaboration. It is always great to meet like-minded people that want to tackle this challenging task. I think Wildlabs is a great place to collaborate. 

What I am working on:

In December last year, I quit my job to create my own companies, to tackle this issue 24/7. 

With Wildya - I combine nature & personal development 

With Wild Business Mates - I help biodiversity heroes like you to get better at the business side of your business, NGO, grassroots organization etc.

My base:

I am based in Biarritz on the South West Coast of France. In the beautiful Basque Country. 

What I hope to find:

I think we all have a part to play, no matter if you are a scientist, activists, artists, business leader, politicians and co. So I hope to connect with everyone that is thinking solution-oriented and want to tackle this challenge together. 

How I can contribute:

I hope to learn more about the current roadblocks that you identified that are holding us back. I hope to contribute with my business knowledge to help you to get the financial means that you need to deliver your impact. 

BONUS: What you need to know about me.

• Love outdoor sports
• eat an Ice cream per day (chocolate obviously) 
• have a dog
• favorite place I have been: Botswana
• best animal encounter: sleeping close to lions in Botswana
• I am a certified field guide 

Have a great Easter and wish to meet you all soon! 

Greetings, everyone! I'm thrilled to join this wonderful community. I work as a postdoctoral researcher at MeBioS KU Leuven having recently completed my PhD on "Optical insect identification using Artificial Intelligence". While our lab primarily focuses on agricultural applications, we're also eager to explore biodiversity projects for insect population estimation, which provides crucial insights into our environment's overall health.

Our team has been developing imaging systems that leverage Raspberry Pi's, various camera models, and sticky traps to efficiently identify insects. My expertise lies in computer science and machine learning, and I specialize in building AI classification models for images and wingbeat signals. I've worked as a PhD researcher at a Neurophysiology lab in the past, as well as a Data Scientist at an applied AI company. You can find more about me by checking my website or my linkedin.

Recently, I've created a user-friendly web-app (Streamlit) which is hosted on AWS (FastAPI) that helps entomology experts annotate insect detections to improve our model's predictions. You can find some examples of this work here: [link1] and [link2].  And lastly, for anyone interested in tiling large images for object detection or segmentation purposes in a fast and efficient way, please check my open-source library "plakakia".

I'm truly excited to learn from and collaborate with fellow members of this forum, and I wish you all the best with your work!

Yannis Kalfas

Hello

My name is Holly Cormack and I’m the new Conservation Technology Intern in the WILDLABS team. For the next three months I will be researching what different technology is being used to study animal movement, specifically focusing on biologgers! I will also be reaching out to the movement ecology community to help develop The Inventory, our novel ongoing project to build a dynamic, collaborative, wiki-inspired database of conservation technology!

I completed my Masters degree in Conservation and Management of African Ecosystems with my thesis focusing on how Serengeti Wildebeest movement is affected by risks and resources across different spatiotemporal scales. More recently I’ve volunteered with Saving Wildcats looking at camera trap data. I’m interested in movement ecology and data analysis