Despite critical advancements in the tech solutions available to conservationists around the world, many existing tools are cost-prohibitive in the landscapes that need them most. Additionally, those who create low-cost and open-source alternatives to pricey market tech are often operating on tight budgets themselves, meaning they have limited resources for the promotion of their solutions to a wider market. We need increased communication around these solutions to highlight their availability, share lessons learned in their creation, and avoid duplication of efforts.
This group is a place to share low-cost, open-source devices for conservation; describe how they are being used, including what needs they are addressing and how they fit in to the wider conservation tech market; identify the obstacles in advancing the capacity of these technologies; and to discuss the future of these solutions - particularly their sustainability and how best to collaborate moving forward.
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Freaklabs
I'm an engineer and product designer working on wildlife conservation technology.
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PhD Candidate at University College London. Research and develop wireless sensor networks for biodiversity monitoring. Currently working on a software package for AI bioacoustics classifiers on edge device.
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Earthmover
I'm the chief of staff at Earthmover, a software company making it easier to work with earth system data
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- @MattyD797
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PhD Student | Cornell University | Smithsonian Institution; My focus is in computational ecology within fishery acoustics
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Software Engineer
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- @carlybatist
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Science Outreach Lead-Rainforest Connection (RFCx) & Arbimon; Ecoacoustics, biodiversity monitoring, primates, lemurs
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- @PshemekZ
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IT + nature
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- @luciegallegos
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Natural Solutions
As an agronomist engineer, I specialized in environmental management and resource conservation. 🌍 Interested in developing solutions for biodiversity conservation #indicators #monitoring
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Team lead for the ARISE Biocloud team, developing an infrastructure for biodiversity monitoring and digital species identification. Also, project lead for the Diopsis insect camera project.
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- @pchwalek
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I'm a PhD candidate in the Responsive Environments Group, working on electronic systems for human and wildlife monitoring.
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Lead Data Engineer - Climate Solutions, Open Earth
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Catch up with The Variety Hour: August 2023
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Making Waves: Open Hardware as a Solution to Scaling up Bycatch Mitigation
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AI for Eagles Challenge
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New Add-ons for Mbaza AI
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Catalog of open source conservation projects
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Information Session: Technology Testing to Mitigate Human-Elephant Conflict in West Bengal
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Innovation wanted: Technology Testing to Mitigate Human-Elephant Conflict in West Bengal
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The Wildlife Society Conference
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Wildlife Monitoring Engineer
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Panthera: Monitoring Wildlife with Open-Source Data Management Tools
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Call for survey participants (AI/ML practitioners)
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Global shortage of Raspberry Pis - What are the alternatives
3 November 2022 10:27am
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Yes, but for our needs that are not powerful enough
$500 micro grants for open science events
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The gathering for open science hardware is giving up grants for people putting on events that promote open science hardware
A simple and free application!
https://forum.openhardware.science/t/usd-500-microgrants-available-for-…
Proposals wanted for Innovation in Practice
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Moveapps: EMAC23 Coding Challenge
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Super initiative! I hope you get a lot of entries to this coding challenge!
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Thanks Lars! Look forward to any entries from you and your colleagues. If you have an questions or suggestions, let me know.
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Hi Andrea! Although I am a keen user and observer of the Moveapps initiative, my R or Python coding skills are next to non- existing. I am therefore not likely to be contributing this time... Some day perhaps ;)
USD500 available for your workshop
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Moveapps EMAC23 Coding Challenge – Participate now!
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The Arbimon newsletter is back!
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Deep Sea BRUVS Development
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Hi Titus,
If the usual syntactic foam sources aren't available, an option may be to add an empty dry housing or use a larger housing for the BRUV, just to provide the buoyancy.
You can make your own syntactic foam from glass microballoons and epoxy resin, but this will require experimentation and testing. For sub-surface buoyancy, you could also use a jerry can full of cooking oil, or a coil of polypropylene rope.
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ooh very cool Salman! Amazing how much tracking devices have come down in price over the years and LoRa/LoRawan is just such a perfect fit for GPS data. Thanks heaps for sharing.
All the best,
Rob