There are educators everywhere working to teach the next generation of sustainability minded students. Whether in formal settings (K-12, undergraduate, graduate) settings or informally as science communication now it is more important than ever to work towards advancing Conservation Tech education.
The United Nations released the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which have served as a framework for educators in this space. Educating with a sustainable focus is a challenge whether you are interested in engineering, public policy, AI, or behavioral biology and we hope that this group will help you grow and exchange your ideas with other current and future educators.
This WILDLABS group has been set up by folks who are working to develop education toolkits, platforms, modules, and more in the conservation space. These tools can be at any level of development.
We hope you will become part of this group to share case studies, exchange ideas, and work towards developing a curriculum for future conservation tool crafters.
Current Examples of Conservation Tech Education Resources:
CV4Ecology Summer Workshop:
- Website for Summer Camp Information,
- Applications Due December 15th for next cohort
- 2022 Material including Syllabus, Lectures, Invited Talks, Final Presentations
Tech Tutors from WILDLABS
- TechTutors Season 1, WILDLABS
- TechTutors Season 2, WILDLABS
- TechTutors Season 3, WILDLABS
Want to know more about Conservation Technology education resources? Make sure to join the conversation in the WILDLABS Conservation Tech Training and Education group.
Additional Conservation Tech Courses:
- Tech4Wildlife @ Georgia Tech – Interdisciplinary and Project Based course on Conservation Technology
- MSc Wildlife Conservation Tech – Liverpool John Moores University Program
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Georgia Institute of Technology
Andrew’s always looking to find new interdisciplinary teams in the conservation tech space. He is a postdoctoral researcher at Max Planck Institute, who completed his PhD at Georgia Tech in 2022. His interests including conservation tech education and engineering work.
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Suzanne’s drive to protect the natural world led her to graduate school at Caltech. She is a Computing and Mathematical Sciences PhD student, advised by Pietro Perona. Her interests include leveraging machine learning and computer vision techniques to solve ecological problems.
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Georgia Institute of Technology
PhD student in Quantitative Biosciences
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Conservationist/ecologist
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Data Science | Remote Sensing | GIS | Geospatial Cloud Computing | Big Data
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- @kimschoedler
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Experienced wildlife educator and caretaker with an interest in exploring tech-related career options in conservation and wildlife preservation.
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PhD Student in Disease Ecology, Taxonomy and biomonitoring in Central Africa
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Recent Environmental Science and Data Science graduate looking to learn more about the conservation tech world. www.TeodoroTopa.com
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Wildlife conservation enthusiast, looking to gain more experience & knowledge
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World Wide Fund for Nature/ World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
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Hello, my name is Shea Vang. I am a first generation Hmong woman professional interested in learning more about green/sustainable practices, clean tech, and carbon projects.
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CLS (Collecte Localisation Satellites)
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I've been working in IT for the past four years and Cybersecurity for the past year and a half. I'm looking to leverage my technical skills towards conservation purposes. I'm new on this journey and excited to jump of volunteer activities where I'm able!
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Thank you for your valuable insights. I, too, am eager to hear more from those actively working on this issue. |
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Community Base, Conservation Tech Training and Education, Protected Area Management Tools | 5 days 15 hours ago | |
In addition to the suggestions already listed, I'd recommend engaging with the SMART Community Forum: There are also many peer reviewed papers on the topic, for example:... |
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Community Base, Conservation Tech Training and Education, East Africa Community, Software and Mobile Apps | 1 week ago | |
Hi,maybe this could be a candidate for a best practice guide 😉 My free manual 'Drones in Biomonitoring' - https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8077113 It canhelp to get (more) knowledge... |
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Conservation Tech Training and Education | 1 week ago | |
Karibu sana |
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Acoustics, East Africa Community, Conservation Tech Training and Education | 1 week 3 days ago | |
Very interesting please update us once experiment is successful |
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Camera Traps, Conservation Tech Training and Education | 1 week 4 days ago | |
Hi everyoneI have enjoyed attending the Variety Hour and learning about synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and the way it detect snares. This... |
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Protected Area Management Tools, Community Base, Conservation Tech Training and Education, Ethics of Conservation Tech | 1 week 6 days ago | |
very nice paper Cathy!!! |
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Climate Change, Community Base, East Africa Community, Conservation Tech Training and Education | 1 week 6 days ago | |
so great!! |
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Conservation Tech Training and Education | 2 weeks 2 days ago | |
I will start by asking: What will the future of conservation be if all the incentives do not hit the jackpot????In recent years, we have... |
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Conservation Tech Training and Education, East Africa Community, Human-Wildlife Conflict | 1 month ago | |
It would be great to address data collection, handling and storage. It starts with keeping good records of field deployments so that devices can be refound and helps at the time... |
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Community Base, Conservation Tech Training and Education, Early Career | 1 month 2 weeks ago | |
In that case, you might want to keep an eye on the project from @Lars_Holst_Hansen |
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Camera Traps, AI for Conservation, Conservation Tech Training and Education, Early Career, Human-Wildlife Conflict, Protected Area Management Tools | 2 months ago | |
Congratulations! My first hydromoth was just arrived yesterday and so excited! Looking forward for the update from your project!!! |
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Acoustics, Biologging, Climate Change, Conservation Tech Training and Education, Data management and processing tools, Emerging Tech, Open Source Solutions, Protected Area Management Tools, Sensors, Software and Mobile Apps | 3 months 2 weeks ago |
Advanced Field School in Computational Ecology
25 January 2023 2:54pm
Firetail Fellowships
19 January 2023 12:11pm
I'm a software engineer/data scientist at Schäuffelhut Berger. We're developing Firetail a software for GPS and acceleration visualization and behavioral annotation.
We have just launched our Firetail Fellowship Program which may be a great way to get access to a full Firetail license for your student project. Let me know if you have questions or comments on this!
Survey on research culture and sharing - please complete and share!
17 January 2023 5:23pm
Interview for Technologies in Conservation
24 November 2022 10:07am
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Happy to contribute [email protected]
17 January 2023 5:12pm
My original background is in ecology and conservation, and am now in the elected leadership of the Gathering for Open Science Hardware which convenes researchers developing open source tech for science. I am not working on a specific piece of technology right now, but am happy to contribute some higher-level views for your interview if that helps.
Conservation Tech Course Syllabus
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Thank you for sharing Andrew!
WEBINAR: Earth, Wind & Fire: Amphibian Response to Wildfires, Windfarms, & More
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Education Paper on Computer Vision for Ecology
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Job: maker / workshop technician
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CV4Ecology 2023 Applications
1 November 2022 8:01pm
3 November 2022 7:13pm
Hey Sara,
Thanks again for the session today--it was super helpful!
I have access to a pretty large network of camera trappers, and I'm currently surveying them to see who might be willing to share data with me. That being said, I can likely get data-sharing agreements with each of these agencies sorted out before the application deadline, but may not have the data in-hand by this time due to a lack of resources for transferring such large amounts of data.
I've used Azure Storage Explorer before to rapidly transfer large datasets like this, so I think it might be easier to compile all data in one location once we have access to the VMs. Would it be acceptable to apply with the signed data-sharing agreements in mind, and with the intent of organizing all of the data once we acquire access to the computing resources?
4 November 2022 6:02pm
Yes, that's definitely ok! You should just outline your larger plan and where you are at in the process in your application. However, the compute resources are intended to be used for model training and won't be available too far in advance of the school (or at least I can't guarantee they will be) , so you would need to make a plan for pre-summer workshop data storage, wrangling, and curation to get the data ready to train models on. Let me know if you're having issues with that and I can try to help brainstorm.
9 December 2022 8:23pm
Quick reminder that the deadline for applications is just shy of a week away.
This workshop is particularly geared to teach ecologists computer vision tools to apply to their research.
Tired of trying to manually count how many animals are in your images? Tired of listening to audio files to classify/detect species? Looking to clean and manage your data so that you can more easily access and analyze it? We're happy and eager to help you apply computer vision tools to try to help with these (and more!) tasks!
More info:
Feel free to comment here or message me directly if you have any questions!
PhD - Sensory ecology of vespine wasps
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I'd be happy to chat with you if you wanted! My expertise is within passive acoustic monitoring particularly. The Conservation Tech Directory might be useful for you in identifying relevant actors within the space.