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Data management and processing tools / Feed

Conservation tech work doesn't stop after data is collected in the field. Equally as important to success is navigating data management and processing tools. For the many community members who deal with enormous datasets, this group will be an invaluable resource to trade advice, discuss workflows and tools, and share what works for you.

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Tech Tutors: Review Session

WILDLABS Team
Missing Tech Tutors? Us too! Catch up on every episode from Season 1, check out some of our community highlights, and find out what we loved most about launching this series in this mid-week Tech Tutors review session....

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Webinar: Building location-based narratives

esri
Interested in using ArcGIS StoryMaps to tell engaging stories that inform and inspire. give your narrative a stronger sense of place, illustrate spatial relationships, and add visual appeal and credibility to your ideas...

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Challenge: ElephantEdge

hackster.io
Protecting elephants from conservation's most pressing issues like poaching and human-wildlife conflict requires big, bold, and innovative solutions. Hackster.io, Smart Parks, Edge Impulse, Microsoft, and several other...

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How do I use portable genomics in the field?

Ineke Knot
Our eighth WILDLABS Tech Tutor is Ineke Knot, who tackled the question: How do I use portable genomics in the field? You can catch up on this tutorial on our Youtube channel and read through the callaborative notes...

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BearID To Go

BearID Project
In this article from BearID Project, Director and Software Developer Ed Miller walks us through using their application to identify individual bears from photographs. Ed shows us how to easily use BearID remotely in the...

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How do I scale up acoustic surveys with Audiomoths?

Tessa Rhinehart
Our fourth WILDLABS Tech Tutor is Tessa Rhinehart, who tackled the question: How do I scale up acoustic surveys with Audiomoths and automated processing? You can catch up on this tutorial on our Youtube channel and read...

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Tech4Wildlife News: SMART Mobile

The SMART Partnership
SMART is excited to showcase the features of their new data collection solution, SMART Mobile! Built around the specific needs of the SMART user community, this streamlined mobile tool allows staff in protected areas to...

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How do I perform automated recordings of bird assemblages?

Carlos Abrahams
Our third WILDLABS Tech Tutor is Carlos Abrahams, who tackled the question: How do I perform automated recordings of bird assemblages? You can catch up on this tutorial on our youtube channel and read through the...

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The Perfect Paw Print: Collecting Data with FIT

Ellie Warren
A couple months ago, we introduced you to the Footprint Identification Technique (FIT), a non-invasive way to build an identification algorithm from both wild and captive animals by photographing footprints. Today, we'...

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Webinar: Virtual Ecosystem Scenario Viewer

OCTO
This upcoming webinar featuring speakers from NOAA will explore the uses for the new Virtual Ecosystem Scenario Viewer tool in illustrating the responses of virtual marine ecosystems to a range of living marine resource...

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Talking Tracking with Xerius

Ellie Warren
How does tracking technology meet the many challenges specific to monitoring birds within their home ranges and over long distances during migration? WILDLABS community member Virginie Perilhon from Xerius Tracking...

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#FieldKit50: Earth Day Giveaway

FieldKit
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day this April 22nd, our friends at FieldKit are giving away 50 of their open source sensor stations! FieldKit believes that everyone, regardless of financial resources, should...

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Competition: Plastic Data Challenge

The Incubation Network
Are you ready for the Plastic Data Challenge? This global contest wants your innovative ideas for improving the plastic waste management and recycling chain in South and Southeast Asia. Participants can consider...

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Hawai'i Conservation Conference

Hawaiʻi Conservation Alliance
The Hawai'i Conservation Conference is accepting abstracts in several categories, including emerging technological advances in the conservation field. This is an exciting opportunity to present your latest research to...

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Animove Summer School 2020

AniMove
Animal Movement Analysis summer school is offered as a two-week professional training course, that targets students, researchers and conservation practitioners that are interested to work or even have already collected...

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Virtual Meetup Discussion: Creative Approaches to Data-Driven Storytelling

Hi all,  We're about to start the final virtual meetup of Season 2! This one will be exploring Creative Approaches to Data-Driven Storytelling. We'll...

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Hello,

Has this session been recorded? Can it be viewed anywhere after the event has ended?

 

Thank you,

Alexandra 

Hi Alexandra,

Yes - we recorded the session and will share it on the event page, as well as in a follow-up email to those who registered, within the week. 

Thanks for your interest!

Talia

Hi all,

For anyone still looking, the recording is and notes from this event are available here.

Talia

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Canopy height mapping with drones

Tom Swinfield
Tom Swinfield and colleagues at the Forest Ecology and Conservation Group have assessed the quality of three dimensional forest models produced from drone surveys, and conclude that concerns about their quality for...

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Tusk Conservation Lecture 2018: Ted Schmitt

Tusk
Tusk are delighted to announce that their Tusk Conservation Lecture 2018 speaker will be Ted Schmitt of Vulcan Inc, Paul G Allen Philanthropies. He will speak about advancing Innovation in conservation, a talk that will...

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Open Data Science Conference

Some of us from UNEP-WCMC will be heading down to London for the Open Data Science Conference (Sept19th-22nd) - it has a decent 60% discount for NGOs/non-profits! If anyone is...

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Oh very interesting, thanks for sharing, Ben. Are your or your team presenting at all, or are you going to soak in all the information? 

Easy link for anyone interested: Open Data Science Conference 

 

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Ocean Hack: San Francisco, 10-11th September, 2018

One Ocean Collab
A 48 hr pop up innovation lab for the ocean, bringing together a mix of designers, strategists, technologists, engineers, scientists, marine conservationists, educators, artists and buisness talent to co-create...

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