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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Community Base, Data management and processing tools, Early Career, Emerging Tech | 1 year 4 months ago | |
Thanks Alice, it does! |
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Early Career, Emerging Tech | 1 year 5 months ago | |
Hi David,I am happy to support if this opportunity is still open?You can reach me on [email protected]: Thanks,Loretta |
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Early Career | 1 year 5 months ago | |
The title of that article is "File Not Found". That threw me off since I totally thought I hit a 404 and the article didn't exist anymore. It's super interesting though so don't... |
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Early Career | 1 year 10 months ago | |
Hey all!I am Ayush, a core team member of my school's Robotics Club (Center For Innovation, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras). There... |
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Drones, Sensors, Wildlife Crime, Early Career | 1 year 10 months ago | |
Hi Eric, Dropping in a reply we had over on Linkedin here. Annoyingly I can't do a snazzy embed of the comment - will fix that!Anton Baotic shared: I guess it depends on... |
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Acoustics, Early Career | 1 year 10 months ago | |
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... |
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Early Career | 1 year 11 months ago | |
Job available at the University of Antwerp in the field of wireless / IoT / low power communication. The group works on a range of projects... |
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Early Career | 2 years 2 months ago | |
Job description WPS seeks a game developer to work with our videography team and existing library of wildlife 360 video content to... |
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Early Career | 2 years 3 months ago | |
Hi ! I am joy - based in London. I am a techie/hardware engineer /software engineer who became an entrepreneur. Over a period of 10... |
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Early Career | 2 years 6 months ago | |
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... |
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Early Career | 2 years 10 months ago | |
Shoot me your e-mail! We're looking at starting a new course soon if there's enough interest. |
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Early Career | 2 years 10 months ago |
Where to Look for Conservation Jobs (running list)
2 September 2019 6:47pm
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
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!