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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Early Career | 3 years 2 months ago | |
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 &... |
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Early Career | 3 years 3 months ago | |
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... |
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Early Career | 3 years 6 months ago | |
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'... |
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Early Career | 3 years 6 months ago | |
Hi all, Some of you may have seen that we've just created a new WILDLABS community group focused on WildTrack... |
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Early Career | 3 years 11 months ago | |
I am a writer, artist and creative technologist that has worked on the intersection of social issues, AI and ecology for about 10+ years.... |
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Early Career | 4 years ago | |
Dear all Wildlab-ers If you are a biologist, scientist, researcher or conservationist, please help us fill out the survey or... |
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Early Career | 4 years 1 month ago | |
Hi, this is Upayan Chatterjee from India. I am currently a student of technology and wish to get into conservation post my graduation.... |
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Early Career | 4 years 1 month ago | |
Hi, this is Upayan Chatterjee from India I have always felt impartial storytelling goes a long way in creating awareness regarding... |
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Early Career | 4 years 1 month ago | |
Hello everyone! My name is Kiana Lawton and I am a junior study biology at Brigham Young University. I am passionate about conservation... |
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Early Career | 4 years 3 months ago | |
Hello everyone! My name is Kiana Lawton and I am a junior study biology at Brigham Young University. I am passionate about conservation... |
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Early Career | 4 years 3 months ago | |
@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... |
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Early Career | 4 years 6 months ago |
WWF's Education for Nature Fellowships and Grants are now open
21 November 2023 2:37pm
Climate Storytelling from the Global South
26 October 2023 11:21am
Entomological Research Specialist for Automated Insect Monitoring
25 October 2023 7:21pm
How to kickstart a conservation tech career, when you lack a formal biology education?
19 September 2023 2:26pm
18 October 2023 12:54pm
Thank you! I will check it out
22 October 2023 4:53pm
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 set. Perhaps there are some European equivalents.
PhD Opportunity - Exploring synergies between statistical ecology and statistical genomics
20 October 2023 12:56pm
PhD Opportunity: YELLOWHAMMER - Individual acoustic monitoring to study song culture evolutionwithin and between dialect areas
20 October 2023 12:54pm
PhD Opportunity - Distance sampling with milder assumptions
20 October 2023 12:53pm
PhD Opportunity: Distributed sound source localisation and separation for wireless microphone networks consisting of two-microphone nodes
20 October 2023 12:47pm
PhD Opportunity - Causal inference and trial emulation for ecological observational data
20 October 2023 12:45pm
PhD Opportunity: 'FLOATERS' position at Bioacoustic AI Doctoral Network
20 October 2023 12:36pm
PhD Opportunity - Movement through space and time, realistic movement for species abundance methods
20 October 2023 12:33pm
Monitoring and Evaluation for Wildlife Conservation
18 October 2023 2:22pm
You can't scale your nature venture? You can't find a job in the nature field? Here is my solution.
4 October 2023 10:52am
Gordon Research Seminar: Predator-Prey Interactions
28 September 2023 3:56pm
Automated monitoring of bumble bee colonies as landscape quality indicators
28 September 2023 1:16pm
GIS & Data Science Specialist, Connected Conservation Foundation
27 September 2023 1:28pm
Career Change Advice
23 July 2023 3:27pm
31 July 2023 12:11am
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
Upscale Your Conservation Impact: Enrol in Project Management & Design Training!
25 September 2023 10:47am
Geospatial Data Scientist, Varaha
25 September 2023 9:58am
Digital Disruption for Conservation Toolkit
22 September 2023 12:18pm
Made available by the Digital Disruption and the Future of Conservation project team at Unearthodox, the toolkit provides conservation practitioners with a comprehensive introduction to Web 3.0 and AI concepts and their potential use for nature conservation.
Apply Now: CLP 2024 Team Awards
22 September 2023 12:30am
Chief Information and Technology Officer, Conservation International
14 September 2023 9:13am
IDEA WILD Equipment Support Applications Now Open
11 September 2023 2:31pm
unsupervised machine learning to infer syntax and temporal organisations of animal vocalizations
7 September 2023 3:02pm
Where to start in ct ?
1 September 2023 2:50pm
2 September 2023 12:53am
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?
Data Analyst l The Wildlife Trusts
22 August 2023 9:07am
Sustained Effort: Carbon Footprints and Capacity
9 August 2023 10:00am
18 October 2023 12:54pm
Thanks for your reply! I am currently based in Spain but looking for opportunities at an international level. Primarily in a European context, but I am open to every option :) Any suggestion would be highly appreciated!