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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Innovation Design Engineer studying at MSc + MA level. Previously a Robotics engineer with specialisms in remote sensing, control systems & electronics design. Transitioning to ecological contexts. I use bioinspiration to inform tech design, both product & infrastructure.
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Conservation technology enthusiast
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- @aljmichel
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PhD student at UC Davis studying gorilla communication & movement
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- @KC
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Graduate Research Assistant at SDSU, Conservation officer for Department of Forest and Park Services, Bhutan. Works on carnivores, applied quantitative ecologist
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- @Cuckoo_Connor
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Avian Science Tech at Ecostudies Institute; AudioMoths and military lands
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- @gzlazzari
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I am a master's student working with the Genetics, Evolution, Ecology and Conservation of Carnivores Research Group at PUCRS/Brazil. I am especially interested in molecular techniques to answer genetic, ecological and forensic questions about jaguars.
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- @jessii
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Oregon State University
Senior at Oregon State University, majoring in Zoology. I am currently living abroad in the Netherlands and enjoy exploring different corners of the world.
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- @ARobillard
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A conservation data scientist and field ecologist with broad interest in the application of machine learning and population genetics to the conservation of threatened species. Alex has conducted field studies throughout central and south America, the Caribbean, and North America.
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Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
I study movement, behaviour and/or physiology using combine various sensors and tracking techniques. My focus is marine predators. However, my interest extends through the entire food web in all types of environment.
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- @EliThore
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Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
I am a biologist with a broad interest in how the environment affects the behaviour and ecology of wildlife. I also like seeking creative and practical solutions to reduce our impact on the environment.
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Funding
Call for applications is now open for applications from Asia and the Pacific.
16 April 2024
Watch our interview with pioneering young Tanzanian vulture researcher Vainess Laizer! Her research investigating the breeding success of white-backed vultures in the western corridor of the Serengeti ecosystem using...
16 April 2024
ZSL is looking for an enthusiastic research scientist to join the multidisciplinary team and help deliver a project in Wales to better understand the ecology of tope sharks (Galeus galeus) in North Cardigan Bay and the...
9 April 2024
Space for Giants is looking for a Conservation Science Intern to help support the Conservation Science team in managing data flow, storage, and analysis to maximize the efficiency of monitoring and evaluating impact.
9 April 2024
Full-Stack Software Developer (Python/React) - Specializing in AI/ML for Wildlife Conservation
5 April 2024
Careers
The Fonseca Leadership Program is open to nationals of eligible countries within WWF-US and GEF priority areas who are already enrolled/are interested in enrolling in a master’s or PhD program. Eligible countries...
3 April 2024
What can soundscapes tell us about ecosystem functioning and health? We are looking to hire a postdoctoral researcher in ecoacoustics for Nature Recovery at Oxford
2 April 2024
A grant of $150,000 will be awarded to one successful applicant with a proposal that's strongly linked to biodiversity and conservation. The grant will support a research project or programme for up to three years (...
2 April 2024
Seeking a highly motivated and skilled Postdoctoral researcher to join an interdisciplinary team dedicated to advancing research in biodiversity, species distribution, habitat use, and conservation, with a particular...
30 March 2024
18 month postdoc research position, Netherlands, EU-funded
28 March 2024
Are you an emerging Tanzanian conservationist looking to leverage new technologies in your conservation practice and become part of an empowering network of female conservation leaders? Apply now for our Women in...
25 March 2024
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We could always use more contributors in open source projects. In most open source companies Red Hat, Anaconda, Red Hat and Mozilla, people often ended up getting hired largely... |
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Acoustics, AI for Conservation, Conservation Tech Training and Education, Early Career, Marine Conservation | 3 weeks 4 days ago | |
I actually will be in Panama for an internship during June-July in the Azuero peninsula!! What organization are you both involved in? |
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Conservation Tech Training and Education, Early Career, Women in Conservation Tech Programme (WiCT) | 4 weeks ago | |
Hello community, I wanted to share some exciting updates about my ongoing conservation project for endangered species. I post this here... |
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Human-Wildlife Conflict, Early Career | 1 month 1 week ago | |
Hi Sienna, I'm in the Worcester area and always keep an eye on positions nearby for my students. I recommend adding Mass Audubon to your list (currently searching for a land... |
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Early Career | 1 month 1 week ago | |
Hi Amit,The most important thing is that the livestock owners contact you as soon as possible after finding the carcass. We commonly do two things if they contact us on the same... |
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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 2 weeks ago | |
Hi folks! Happy 2024 and thanks in advance for your patience in case I over-used tags. If you’re using any form of natural language... |
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AI for Conservation, Citizen Science, Climate Change, Conservation Tech Training and Education, Data management and processing tools, Early Career, East Africa Community, Emerging Tech, Ending Wildlife Trafficking Online, Ethics of Conservation Tech, Human-Wildlife Conflict, Open Source Solutions, Software and Mobile Apps, Wildlife Crime, Women in Conservation Tech Programme (WiCT) | 3 months 1 week ago | |
Thanks Aude, very useful. Will reach out to them! |
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Early Career, Acoustics, eDNA & Genomics, Marine Conservation, Protected Area Management Tools | 3 months 1 week ago | |
Hi Zach,Our organization (SEE Turtles) has a campaign working on the illegal tortoiseshell trade around the world called Too Rare To Wear. We are going to be updating our Global... |
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Community Base, Conservation Dogs, Early Career, East Africa Community, Ending Wildlife Trafficking Online, Human-Wildlife Conflict, Wildlife Crime | 4 months ago | |
As I approach the completion of my Bachelor's in Mechatronics Engineering, I am eager to explore career opportunities within the field of... |
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I unfortunately don't have many unique insights for Europe. I'm North America based. We have companies out here like Aerium Analytics that seem like they'd fit your skill... |
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You can't scale your nature venture? You can't find a job in the nature field? Here is my solution. Introducing: The free Biodiversity... |
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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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Postdoc: evaluation of tropical forest restoration
4 June 2022 12:03pm
TAI4ES: Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science, 2022 summer school
4 June 2022 11:31am
UKAN+ Monitoring UK Biodiversity Symposium 15-16th June
31 May 2022 2:58pm
Welcome!
23 April 2019 3:58pm
29 April 2022 10:43am
Hi everyone!
I'm a recently graduated Industrial Designer, looking for some opportunities in wildlife conservation projects. I can offer knowledge in the industry and production processes, design and development of product alternatives, project management and decision-making. Feel free to message me for any inquiries!
18 May 2022 6:25am
Hello everyone!
I am currently a senior undergraduate student working on landscape genetics research using RAD seq data and GIS data. The organism we've been studying is Rana aurora the Northern Red Legged Frog. I'll be stating a new project this summer looking at how noise pollution affects learning and communication in birds. I come from a non technical background but I am extremely interested in applying machine learning and ai to the research I work on.
Passive Acoustic Monitoring - Malagasy Training Workshop
9 May 2022 4:10pm
Job - IoT / wireless communication
8 March 2022 3:10pm
Job Position - Seeking a VR / Unity Developer to work on Wildlife App / Game
28 January 2022 2:17pm
Open to pro Bono positions
8 November 2021 12:54pm
Seeking opportunities: Innovation manager with hands on skills in prototyping, data-science, product
28 April 2021 9:53am
4 June 2021 6:48pm
I try and maintain a list of companies working in fish & ocean tech here. It's not exhaustive but might give you ideas of places to start. The Schmidt Marine Tech Program has an ocean jobs board that tends to have a lot of technical/engineering/UX jobs. You might also check out Systemiq.
14 July 2021 9:22am
That's great contribution @Carlybatist! Thanks so much.
14 July 2021 9:50am
Thanks so much @skatewing
It is impressive to notice that almost all are outside of EU, and my concern is the working rights to collaborate with US or UK organisations due to VISA constraints. To your knowledge:
- does companies in this space are keen on enrolling people that would require a working VISA ?
Or
- can it be usual practice, in this space, to collaborate with people outside of USA or UK with freelancing contractual agreements, in order to ease out restrictions ?
In my opinion I thought that proposing myself as a contractor might have offered an administrative (aka, less costs) benefit for such companies, but experience with HR from UK and USA brought evidence they prefer people at least already resident in their Countries and with a VISA permit.
Wildlabs ML course group study
3 March 2021 4:45am
18 June 2021 11:44am
Hey Neelang,
Would love to join in on the Slack if you folks are still active. I'm thinking of taking up related courses as well.
Cheers.
19 June 2021 3:22am
Hi
I'd be interested too, but as a very green newb would I be able to follow or would another group/course be more appropriate to establish some background first.
cheers
19 June 2021 4:46am
Shoot me your e-mail! We're looking at starting a new course soon if there's enough interest.
Study group for online classes
31 January 2021 5:33pm
17 February 2021 2:09am
Hi Neelang! I've just started some online courses and would love to join a study group. Please add me to the Slack channel. Thanks so much! :)
9 March 2021 5:06pm
Hi Neelang,
I'm assuming you all have already started, but if it's not too late, I would love to join your group! Please let me know how I can join your Slack.
-Anna
9 March 2021 6:15pm
Hi, anyone interested in joining: send me a message with your e-mail!
University & Grad School Resources
5 November 2020 11:04pm
12 November 2020 11:01pm
Hi all,
Dropping in with another great program! Many of you have probably heard of this one already: it's the Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation! They have courses and training options for all education stages, including for high school students who are thinking about following a conservation career path.
The graduate and professional short courses also have a strong conservation tech focus, with training options in GIS, camera trapping, and statistics, specifically. Definitely worth having a look! You can find their courses here.
-Ellie
18 November 2020 8:20pm
Hi again,
WILDLABS member Meredith Palmer shared this great course module for undergrads, based around Snapshot Serengeti camera trap data! This materials are useful for professors who are looking for resources for online biology courses, but the resources may also be useful and interesting for those of you who are exploring conservation tech career options and want to learn more about camera trap studies.
-EllieWe've been hard at work to create distance-learning material based on our #citizenscience #cameratrap projects to teach concepts in #ecology and #conservation. Excited to announce that our 5-week online undergrad module is now available on @CourseSource! https://t.co/5k1dQ8WVJe pic.twitter.com/Huf1MB9ZDG
— Meredith S. Palmer, Ph.D. (@songofdodo) November 18, 2020
29 January 2021 11:17pm
Those of you who are interested in bioacoustics will want to check out this Master's course!
Looking for a master degree in #bioacoustics? Already doing your PhD & wanting to spend 4 months studying #bioacoustics? Look at MoBi, a new Master's course in Bioacoustics, taught in English by over 30 expert tutors from around the world. https://t.co/SgoFRQGpZA
— Nicolas Mathevon (@MathevonNicolas) January 29, 2021
Please RT!
BIPOC mentors/mentees + Scholarship Opportunity!
16 September 2020 8:31pm
10 November 2020 6:27pm
Hey Wildlabbers,
Wanted to update with another opportunity from the Black Mammalogists Week organizers!
They're working on a BIPOC scholarship with the funds raised during Black Mammalogists Week, and they'd like to hear about how $1500 would impact your research and early career development! Details here:
Hey y'all this is still happening!
— Black Mammalogists (@BlkMammalogists) November 10, 2020
Are you BIPOC? Interested in mammals/wildlife?
How would *$1500* change your research or professional development? DM us for how to contribute a 30-sec vid to our campaign for the BIPOC scholarship endowment. RT!https://t.co/Rx16dyk6mZ
Ways of developing skills and knowledge
15 April 2020 7:48pm
23 October 2020 5:00pm
Hey guys,
please count me in. I am software engineer and would love to get some well structured knowledge about conservation, environment, ecology, climate change, biodiversity loss and alike. I'll be more than happy to create learning group with you.
23 October 2020 7:26pm
Outstanding! I've created a Slack page: https://wildlabs-learners.slack.com/. Please message me your e-mail address to be added. From there, we can discuss who wants to learn what and then create subchannels if needed.
23 October 2020 9:31pm
Hi everyone,
I've taken several courses from the Edx platform and a few from Nat Geo.
I highly recommend Edx courses. They cover material with enough detail that I've always learned something but never been overwhelmed. Many of them provide additional material for more in-depth reading.
I can't speak to any of the other platforms on the list, but I intend to check them out.
Intro to new FIT community group - early career interest
25 May 2020 6:00pm
Ecology/Technology Artist & Freelancer; Hi!
13 May 2020 10:21pm
Survey: Applying tech to conservation
17 April 2020 4:30pm
SWITCHING TO CONSERVATION
14 April 2020 8:53pm
STORY TELLING PROJECTS : HOW TO GO ABOUT IT
14 April 2020 8:47pm
Looking for an Internship
21 January 2020 4:25am
Internship Wanted: Conservation & Animal experience
21 January 2020 4:13am
Where to Look for Conservation Jobs (running list)
2 September 2019 6:47pm
7 November 2019 12:18am
I would suggest focusing on honing a skillset that would make you a killer applicant. Wildlife is a hard field to get into, so instead of targeting a species of interest, it would be helpful to jump on any opportunity to get more experience. Even if it is not directly related to what you want to do. Try picking up some volunteer work or internships to get your foot in the door and see if it is still what you would like to do too!
7 November 2019 12:20am
But honestly, there are conservation organizations that would also benefit from the skillset of an engineer! Try looking into different organizations that interest you and see where your skills may fit in with that. Honestly, there situtations where conservation groups depend on engineers to help preserve a species or protect a habitat. You can look into wildlife parks, national parks, wildlife refuges, etc to see how your skills fit in there... unless you want to completely leave engineering behind of course.
7 November 2019 7:43pm
@Michiko Thanks a lot for the motivation and guidance.
I am looking for a job in this sector for quite sometime but have been unable to find one. Since one must keep running the house, I am working in Jacobs as a design engineer for the last 2 years.
I will try and try and try. But if u do find something do let us all eager eco-concerned Indian engineers know.
Internship and Early Career Opportunities 2019
3 May 2019 4:33pm
3 May 2019 4:37pm
WildCRU Camera Trap Internships
WildCRU’s wide-spread and long-term camera trapping study spans South East Asia to West Africa to Scotland. Based at Tubney House, we are looking for early career undergraduate or masters students to work closely with our camera trapping co-ordinator to identify species and tag camera trap images using WildCRU’s camera trapping protocol. You will learn a variety of skills, attend WildCRU’s camera trapping workshop and have the opportunity to network with WildCRU’s international community.
Interns will be appointed for 3 month, usually on a part time basis, at £9 per hour, ideally starting 10th June. To apply, please send us a CV (no longer than 2 pages) and a covering letter detailing your experience to [email protected] and [email protected] by 24th May 2019.
More info: https://www.wildcru.org/opportunities/
24 May 2019 11:41am
Caracal
Caracal is a cloud-based data integration & analysis platform for protected areas. We are looking for creative graphic designers and frontend developers who are willing to contribute remotely to our young yet exciting conservation technology project. We primarily need help developing intuitive map icons for categorizing incidents and species, as well as building frontend components for our web app.
This project is ongoing and those interested are encouraged to email us at [email protected] or by completing this form:
https://forms.gle/e2TA24scf5Ceq7LK6
EDX.org Data Science Courses
25 July 2017 2:38pm
30 July 2021 10:47am
Hi everyone,
I am Rita Pucci from Italy but I am bouncing everywhere to follow my work. I am a Computer Science researcher, currently, at the University of Udine (north Italy).
My research is focused on building new machine learning models for computer vision, in particular for image classification and manipulation. I developed a machine learning model that used signals from sensors to identify tortoises behaviour and a model to classify species from camera traps in forests in India. I really loved working for conservation and I want to be involved again in the conservation field.
I joined this community because it seems to be a safe place to start connections with people from other research fields and get in touch with (maybe) people for collaboration.
I really want to contribute to this community as much as I can.
Enjoy your time
Rita