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WILDLABS Journal Club: Planetary AI, biologging data standards, slope & Acoustics, & AIDE system

Stephanie O'Donnell

4th June 2021 at 05:04pm

Hi everyone,  Lovely to see everyone at this week's journal club! Here are the slides & links from this week's journal club if you want to dig in and read more. If you read any these papers and want to share your thoughts, please jump in the thread below...
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Stephanie O'Donnell

4th June 2021 at 05:06pm

Read more:

@carlybatist 's in Case You Missed It

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WILDLABS Journal Club: DIY camera trap, optimising use of biologgers, Allen Coral Atlas

Stephanie O'Donnell

21st May 2021 at 08:19pm

Hi everyone,  It is so hard to stay on top of the sheer volume of conservation tech literature and work happening - even for our team! So to help with this, we started a WILDLABS journal club and it's 100% my new favourite thing. Every second friday, we come...
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Stephanie O'Donnell

19th June 2021 at 11:47am

Alright - everyone who has asked for an invite on any social platform *should* have a calendar invite in their email from me (it'll be from my @fauna-flora.org email). If I've somehow missed you, can you please shout? 

Steph

Jessie Oliver

16th September 2021 at 07:48am

Hey Stephanie, I remember this idea being kicked around and I indicated interest some time ago, but if I am not on the list you have going, I would love to passively follow, appreciating the timezones likely will be difficult for me to follow live from Australia. 

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COVID-19 & Conservation Tech Survey - Input Needed!

Talia Speaker

3rd May 2021 at 06:55pm

Hi all, As some of you may have seen, WILDLABS is supporting Vulcan and EMC research in running a survey on COVID-19 and conservation technology. If you have a few minutes,...
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Talia Speaker

5th May 2021 at 08:41pm

Check out this update for a sneak peek at early results and more info about why this research matters. Do you agree with the trends so far? Let us know on the survey.

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WILDLABS Looking For Personal Stories of Challenges/Lessons Learned

Ellie Warren

21st April 2021 at 03:42pm

Hi Wildlabbers, We're looking for stories from community members about challenges you've faced in your conservation tech work, and about the lessons learned from those challenging experiences. Maybe the lessons you took away from it helped you in another project....
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David Savage

4th June 2021 at 04:44pm

Hi Ellie--

I brought this up in today's Journal Club, but I'm happy to talk about some of my experiences dealing with a whole bunch of different things that have damaged or destroyed microphones in acoustic sensors (weather, curious animals, etc), and what we've tried to do in order to minimize or account for those failures.

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Developers, Makers, & Engineers: Recent Supply Chain Issues

Ellie Warren

6th April 2021 at 10:41pm

Hey Widlabbers, We've heard from several of you who build hardware and develop tech that suppy chains have been slowed down and complicated by COVID-19 impacts recently. We're interested in hearing what your experiences have been dealing with these supply chain issue...
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Carly Batist

14th April 2021 at 01:05pm

I believe the Open Acoustics folks had delays in fulfilling the last AudioMoth GroupGets round because of supply chain issues with the Wonder Gecko processor it uses.

Harold Tay

17th April 2021 at 03:33am

I haven't been affected, my quantities are small and they are all jellybean parts. nothing remotely exotic.

Jose Luis Albarracin de la Torre

23rd April 2021 at 06:19pm

Yes, I am also having supply problems lately, not so much of components as of plates or other materials that I have to receive from Japan (;-), Australia, China, ... My impression is that bottlenecks are occurring in some parts of the supply chain. I imagine that the COVID and the shutdown of the Suez Canal for days did not help ...

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Good Tech Fest | deep ticket discounts

Kate Wing

5th April 2021 at 06:52pm

https://www.goodtechfest.com/agenda The Good Tech Fest focuses on nonprofits, philanthropy, and some civil society projects. It's not specifically conservation but sessions on grant metrics, data visualization, and data management are pretty widely applicable. Plus, they...
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Funding opportunities on Experiment

David Lang

9th March 2021 at 09:11pm

Hey All, We recently funded a number of Conservation Tech projects on Experiment (more than $40k was raised by all the teams/projects). And we've just announced two new Challenge Grants, one for Kelp and another for biosurveillance: https://experiment.com/grants/...
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Join the sixth annual #Tech4Wildlife Photo Challenge!

Ellie Warren

24th February 2021 at 09:03pm

Hi Wildlabbers, It's time for our sixth annual #Tech4Wildlife Photo Challenge! We'd like to invite all of you in the WILDLABS community to share...
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Stephanie O'Donnell

1st March 2021 at 12:04pm

Hi everyone!

Just dropping in to say we've seen more than 150 photos shared in this year's #tech4wildlife photo challenge already! We often hear it's really hard to get an idea of what the conservation tech landscape is like - who is doing what. This photo challenge is one of the ways we try to break down those information barriers and bring everyone together. If you're curious about what's being shared this year, you can check out our curated feed on twitter here:

https://twitter.com/WILDLABSNET/timelines/703260604908314625

We'd love to have your projects added into our big #tech4wildlife celebration. If you haven't already, take a photo and tell us a bit about what you're working on! Share it on Twitter with the hashtag #tech4wildlife and tag us @WILDLABSNET. As always, we'll count down our favourites on March 3, World Wildlife Day. 

Steph 

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Interview opportunity about your experience in researching

iJc

18th February 2021 at 06:46pm

Dear Wildlabs members We're a group of students from the University of Puerto Rico and we're conducting a market investigation with the National Science Foundation about new market opportunities in the field of animal and environmental research. We want to...
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Carly Batist

26th February 2021 at 04:23pm

@StephODonnell perhaps tweeting this out from the Wildlabs account to increase coverage?

Froilán and Edgardo - what do you mean by 'experienced'? That can mean different things to different people so just wanted to clarify the term. Thanks!

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Hack4Nature : tech for biodiversity

olivier rovellotti

25th January 2021 at 10:11am

We are organizing this year a giant online hackathon (12 challenges) around biodiversity and tech: the night the city the agriculture and the sea We are using AI, Bio-accoustics, graph database, satellite imagery etc ......
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TaleciaR

29th January 2021 at 08:49pm

Is this available for participants outside of France? I'd love to be involved!

olivier rovellotti

8th July 2021 at 08:45am

Yep Its sill open you can join Slack hack4nature.slack.com ?

olivier rovellotti

8th July 2021 at 08:46am

Yep Its sill open you can join Slack 

https://join.slack.com/t/hack4nature/shared_invite/zt-t1rw4ee8-3_nFMzc~4zyyrkT~YucE8w ?

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Recruiting interview participants re. conservation+communities+tech

Matt Ziegler

13th January 2021 at 07:06am

Hi everyone -   I'm at student at the University of Washington who's starting up a cross-sectional interview study about conservation+communities+technology, and I'm writing this post to ask for some help recruiting participants.   We want to...
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Matt Ziegler

17th January 2021 at 01:12am

Someone also just sent me this super relevant FAO report on ICT's / phones / technology use in small scale fisheries: http://www.fao.org/documents/card/en/c/cb2030en

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Students looking to speak with local stakeholders

Dan Zevin

20th November 2020 at 05:22am

Hello Everyone! The undergraduate students in our new Conservation + Technology course at UC Berkeley are working on a project to help local communities live more harmoniously with wildlife,...
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Carly Batist

22nd November 2020 at 05:24pm

Hi,

I have some Malagasy contacts if those might be of interest to the students. I conduct fieldwork on lemurs in a national park there in collaboration with Centre ValBio research station, but I know of others working in Malagasy non-profits as well who may be good candidates. Feel free to email me ([email protected]) and I'm happy to facilitate any connections I can.

All the best,

Carly  

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What have you been working on recently (2020)?

Stephanie O'Donnell

6th November 2020 at 04:46pm

Hi Wildlabbers! How's everyone doing? Renewing an old thread because I'd love to hear about what you're working on at the moment - what's getting you up in the morning?  If you've built something, tried out some new tech, written about your...
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Civic tech fellowships: deadline 10/31

Kate Wing

26th October 2020 at 08:44pm

https://pacscenter.stanford.edu/research/digital-civil-society-lab/dcsl-non-resident-fellowships/ If you're working on something with a policy angle or community-wide impact, the Stanford Digital Civil Society fellowship may be a fit for you. Note that they're...
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Getting Started in the WILDLABS Community

Ellie Warren

22nd October 2020 at 09:29pm

Welcome to the WILDLABS Community Base, your space to get acquainted with all that our platform and community have to offer!  If you’re new to WILDLABS, this thread will serve as a roadmap for getting started and finding the best...
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Tech Tutors 2: What do you want to see?

Tatjana Baleta

22nd October 2020 at 04:08pm

After a successful first season, we are excited to be bringing you Tech Tutors: Season 2, the tutorial series that provides quick, practical, and interactive answers to the “how do I do that”...
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22nd October 2020 at 07:22pm

Hi There,

Nice you opened up the agenda.

I want to see more things on how to build devices, from cases to connectivity. I would like to see something in particular (a hands-on with real things and applications): Satellite connectivity.

Something was mentioned on the wildlife drones episode, I would like to see more on that, from ready to use devices to boards to build your own devices, detailed things, including estimated costs for the services, coverage and the like, an easy to roadmap to implement those things would be nice.

Of course, I want to see more on drones, that would be interestering too, there is a lot of action by applying drones for wildlife care. I am paricularly interested in autonomous ones, I don't know if there is any advance on them.

Some specialists on image sensors would be also appreciated (infrared, non-military SWIR, LWIR, etc)

Landbased Sensors + Connectivity + Drones + LWIR = Early wildfire detection, that is something that affects Jaguars and all kind of wildlife!

Best Regards,

Carlos.

Carly Batist

26th October 2020 at 02:16pm

LoRa/LoRawan for dummies! aka conservationists who think everyone is talking about a woman named Laura.... haha :) 

As Carlos mentioned above, this would tie in with "satellite connectivity" more broadly. 

27th October 2020 at 03:48pm

Hi Carly,

 

This Nov-29 will be the international Jaguar day. I am working on a massive update on my site, the Jag things, Tech4Nature or Tech4Wildlife as you call it, new devices, etc. I promise I will keep you in mind the moment I write things about LoRa/LoRaWan. In fact, I already started because I couldn't forget your comments about Laura!!! I have many things going on but I will finish it, that's a promise (for you, but specially for the Cats!!!)

 

The first point in your favor: It is great that you call it LoRa/LoRaWan. Many experts don't make that distinction.

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Weekly #Tech4Wildlife highlights from Twitter

Ellie Warren

7th October 2020 at 08:27pm

Hi Wildlabbers, We're trying out a new way to bring together all of the cool #tech4wildlife content we find on Twitter, and our community here on WILDLABS. Every week, our team will share a handful of our favorite news, opportunities, and highlights from...
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Ellie Warren

20th November 2020 at 11:13pm

Hi Wildlabbers,

It's already time for more weekly tweet highlights! 

First, we were excited to see Season 1 Tech Tutor's Sara Beery getting tweeted about the MegaDetector in action! 

Yay #MegaDetector!! Vertically aligned animals was one of the things we targeted with the v4 release, great to see that it helped https://t.co/4kW9blGQZ8

— Sara Beery (@sarameghanbeery) November 19, 2020

Next, we loved seeing another Season 1 Tech Tutor, Daniel Situnayake repping his episode in this tweet about some very fun backyard birdwatching AI!

The @BirdBuddy_ is a super cute AI bird feeder that recognizes birds by their image or their song. It would be even cooler if inference happened on-device!

p.s. to train your own birdsong recognizer, see my @WILDLABSNET tutorial:https://t.co/3gl2MJNm1Nhttps://t.co/oTaC3BxOZe

— Daniel Situnayake #BlackLivesMatter (@dansitu) November 19, 2020

Community member Shah Selbe shared an article about this unique sensor deployment strategy involving drones and darts - what do you guys think of using this system in the field??

Sensor-equipped darts shot from drones is definitely not a conservation technology deployment approach I’ve thought of before. https://t.co/i4C4h7oLxD

— Shah Selbe (@shahselbe) November 17, 2020

And lastly, we can't NOT mention that we celebrated WILDLABS' fifth anniversary this week!

Happy anniversary to WILDLABS! For five years, we've seen incredible collaborations and successes come out of this community, and we can't wait to see what we can build and accomplish together in #tech4wildlife in the next five years! We're just getting started.

— WILDLABS Community (@WILDLABSNET) November 18, 2020
Tweet us or post with your favorite community memories from the past five years!

-Ellie

 

Ellie Warren

4th December 2020 at 10:18pm

Happy Friday, Wildlabbers! 

This was a big week for #tech4wildlife announcements and resources on Twitter - here are just a few of our favorites:

Audiomoth got even easier to use - great news for our Bioacoustics community!

1. We are excited to release the new #AudioMoth 1.5.0 firmware, which saves your configurations even when batteries are removed. Enabling fieldwork-friendly time configuration, using an acoustic chime to set the AudioMoth clock from a smartphone app https://t.co/G7zBKaghFt pic.twitter.com/M8o858UfUg

— OpenAcousticDevices (@OpenAcoustics) November 23, 2020
ZSL gave us a glimpse of their Instant Detect 2 satellite camera and sensor system:

#InstantDetect2 is starting to look really good. Next year should be very exciting!#Tech4wildlife https://t.co/ZfmlNVivvF

— SamSeccombe (@SamSeccombe) November 24, 2020
Our friend Alasdair Davies shared his work creating sustainably made, recycled satellite tags:

A highlight of my career this one. I didn't ever think I'd get to join a National Geographic expedition @InsideNatGeo turning 500ml water bottles into satellite tags with @HeatherKoldewey @EmilyDuncan34 @Imogennapper and others https://t.co/iPCAwBOBAV

— Alasdair Davies (@Al2kA) December 3, 2020
The Snow Leopard Trust team shared this great resource on the ethics of camera trapping when it comes to capturing human images:

You set up #cameratraps to detect #snowleopards, but cameras detect this. What will you do?
1. Report it?
2. Delete it?
3. Blur and share it?
4. Archive it?
Read on as we discuss the ethical tight-rope of dealing with human images in @AER_ESE_BES: https://t.co/H9MfIyccgp pic.twitter.com/O37bOBA6mh

— Koustubh Sharma (@koustubh_sharma) November 25, 2020
And lastly, if you follow our annual #tech4wildlife Photo Challenge, you'll know that we're big fans of whale photos. So obviously we loved this post from Emma Vogel!

And that's a wrap on our two week research cruise! We successfully deployed both satellite and archival #Biologging tags, as well as collecting lot of #biopsy, #photoID, #eDNA and #acoustic data. It's great to be part of such exciting collaborative research on #whales in Norway! pic.twitter.com/ZcEbXVlz7H

— Emma Vogel (@efvogel) November 30, 2020
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Tools to do live translations?

Stephanie O'Donnell

4th August 2020 at 01:54pm

Hi wildlabbers -  Does anyone know of any AI/tool that can translate live transcripts from calls (zoom/teams etc etc)? We're looking at running virtual events in other languages, but in the meantime this came up as an idea in the chat after the last tutorial. I know...
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Survey: Cons Tech Needs Assessment

Nathan Hahn

28th July 2020 at 07:17pm

Hi everyone!  I am a PhD candidate at Colorado State University researching human-wildlife conflict. Myself and several collaborators from CSU are in the process of distributing a survey to evaluate tech performance and collaboration needs in the conservation...
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Akiba

29th July 2020 at 03:17am

Done. Good luck with the survey :)

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Conservation grants for field vehicles

Yvan Satgé

23rd July 2020 at 03:14pm

Hi everyone, Does anyone know of grants to support buying or repairing field vehicles? My colleagues in the Caribbean have old pick-up trucks that will die soon but they do not have funding to keep repairing them, or to buy new ones.  Toyota used to have such grants...
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Yvan Satgé

14th October 2021 at 10:17am

Hi everyone, 

Trying to revive this conversation. Has anyone any leads on car manufacturers, foundations, NGOs, etc who support buying (or repairing) vehicles for conservation?

Thanks,

Yvan

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