WILDLABS groups like this one are where conservation tech community members from every career stage gather to ask questions, share resources, and network. If you're just getting started in your #tech4wildlife career, making a career change from the tech world into conservation, or you're a student finding your path in the field, the Early Career group wants to meet you!
Likewise, the Early Career group is an excellent place for our conservation tech experts to share opportunities and resources with a wide audience of people who will make a big impact in conservation in the coming years.
How can you get started in our Early Career group?
- Visit our Welcome Thread and tell us about yourself and your career goals!
- Drop into our Share Your Master's Project thread to ask questions, share your updates, get advice, and discuss your project goals with people who can help you make progress
- Network with our group's regular events like Happy Hour, launching later in 2022
The Early Career group is looking for an organizer for a 6-month period to plan networking events and help conservation tech students from around the world connect! If you're interested in volunteering as group organizer, email [email protected] with a brief summary of your early career conservation tech experience so far, and with an idea for one event or activity you'd propose for the group. We hope to hear from you!
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I'm new to wildlife technology but really want to get more involved in learning about the various technologies out there for wildlife and land surveys. I currently work in consulting and trying to find away to incorporate these applications to my job.
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Im a biologist at the National University of Cordoba and I did my final thesis on mammals in a reserve in my province. Also, I´m PM4R Master certificated for BID and I work as a Project Manager at Natura International, an NGO dedicated to the creation of protected areas.
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Hi JacobI am Emanuel Massawe a bachelor degree graduate at the College of African Wildlife Management Mweka. I love conservation technology so much and i am looking for a... |
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Early Career | 3 minutes 36 seconds ago | |
Hi Carly,I'm asking myself the same questions. I've recently contributed to MoveApps, which was a very nice entry point into conservation tech/movement ecology for me. Perhaps you... |
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Early Career | 2 days 20 hours ago | |
Hey everyone!I am brand new to conservation technology and I am trying to find my way. I currently work in a different field and want to... |
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AI for Conservation, Climate Change, Conservation Tech Training and Education, Drones, Early Career, Earth Observation 101 Community, Emerging Tech, Open Source Solutions, Remote Sensing & GIS, Sensors, Software and Mobile Apps | 2 weeks 2 days ago | |
I wish to share an update on my MSc thesis project, that contributes to the field of decoding animal communication. In my work I... |
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Acoustic Monitoring, Data management and processing tools, Early Career | 3 weeks ago | |
Very helpful, thank you. One more thing, are there any broad skills that apply to all areas of conservation tech that may be helpful to learn/improve, e.g data analysis? |
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AI for Conservation, Conservation Tech Training and Education, Early Career | 3 weeks 6 days ago | |
Just tangentially, can you elaborate on "…work in the environmental field but in the aviation industry"? |
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Early Career | 3 months ago | |
Hello Donya :) Welcome to WILDLABS! Great to hear about your experience as a machine learning developer and interest in volunteering to help the planet using AI. I... |
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Early Career | 4 months ago | |
Wildlabers, I have been randomly trying a few things here and there for a career switch. But so far it has been in bits and pieces. Meanwhile, I have started pursuing Masters... |
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Community Base, Early Career | 4 months 3 weeks ago | |
Hi all! This is a topic I've been thinking on lately and this tweet sparked it again in my brain: Conservation tech allows us to have... |
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I'm looking for any recommendations for any entry level/internship remote roles/companies in the United States that are focused in... |
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I couldn't agree more with both of these comments tom! I'm reading hundreds (literally hundreds) of applications for open WILDLABS roles at the moment, and the ones that stand out... |
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Hi,I have 4 years of experience in the field of piping stress analysis as a mechanical engineer. After 4 years I got interested and wanted... |
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How to kickstart a conservation tech career, when you lack a formal biology education?
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Sounds like you have plenty of the necessary skills. I work on the hardware side of things and have no biology background besides my intro university courses.
There are tons of different angles into the space. Where are you based out of? Perhaps I could offer some suggestions.
30 September 2023 6:56am
Hi Jacob
I am Emanuel Massawe a bachelor degree graduate at the College of African Wildlife Management Mweka. I love conservation technology so much and i am looking for a scholarship to persue a Masters degree in conservation technology.I don't know where to start i hope this comment will be a cool start for that and thanks for your message.
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Hi Carly!
It's exciting to hear that you're thinking about how to apply your skills to conservation! I made a career pivot last year from an electrical engineer at the department of defense to a PhD student designing community-driven environmental sensors and its been awesome! Definitely took some work to figure out what I wanted though.
Good places to start might be joining the AI for Conservation Slack group (it has a jobs page) and potentially the Work on Climate community. In my experience people in these communities are generally very happy to give advice to someone pivoting into the field.
If you are considering the academic route, you should think about whether you want a Master's or PhD (or something else). It might be hard to find a Master's program specifically for software + animals, but some HCI programs might have tracks that allow you to work with animals, for example with Georgia Tech's Animal-Computer Interaction Lab. If you're open to a PhD, I would recommend exploring the existing academic literature for papers that seem interesting and then looking more into the authors.
I'd be happy to talk more if there's other advice I can provide. Good luck!
2 August 2023 4:18am
Hi! Great to meet another Carly :)
You might also want to look through the Conservation Tech Directory, which has lots of job boards & academic labs plus a huge number of organizations, companies, tools, etc. that you could peruse to help narrow down your search or strategize your career change.
27 September 2023 10:50am
Hi Carly,
I'm asking myself the same questions. I've recently contributed to MoveApps, which was a very nice entry point into conservation tech/movement ecology for me. Perhaps you find it interesting, too. There's a nice article on it here on WILDLABS. Let me know if you have any questions on this.
Cheers,
Alex
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Hi Lucas.
I can understand that there are a lot of technologies being thrown around and it can be confusing about what is really needed. I recommend to first select an area of conservation you want to focus in, ie: ecological restoration, soil conservation, wildlife management, etc. Based on that decision, look at what technologies are available that can potential help in that field. We do a lot of work in ecological restoration and find that long term, longitudinal monitoring of conservation reserves are important. Because of that, we use a lot of datalogging and wireless communications to monitor remote locations. If you're interested in invasive species management, you might be drawn towards wildlife tracking (movement ecology), trap monitoring, drones, etc.
The technology is a tool, and you should look at it like field gear. The gear will change depending on what you're setting out to do and the tool is supposed to make your life easier, not harder :)
Hope that helps.
Akiba
2 September 2023 6:14am
Very helpful, thank you. One more thing, are there any broad skills that apply to all areas of conservation tech that may be helpful to learn/improve, e.g data analysis?
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Just tangentially, can you elaborate on "…work in the environmental field but in the aviation industry"?
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27 September 2023 10:57am
Hi Jacobo,
I feel like I'm in a similar place as you are regarding getting into conservation tech. There's another post here on WILDLABS that you might find useful in case you haven't seen it already.
Cheers,
Alex