Welcome to the Conservation Tech Training and Education Group!

Suzanne Stathatos

@sstathat
| she/her

Suzanne’s drive to protect the natural world led her to graduate school at Caltech. She is a Computing and Mathematical Sciences PhD student, advised by Pietro Perona. Her interests include leveraging machine learning and computer vision techniques to solve ecological problems.

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Conservation Tech Training and Education

Hello and welcome to our group!

In this group, we’ll be discussing all things conservation tech education. That may seem broad and the intent of it is! Conservation tech ranges everywhere from mechanical engineering efforts to dispense treats to AI’s interpretation of camera traps and beyond. We’re looking at ways to expand and improve the training and education of conservation technology .

This thread is for you to introduce yourself and tell us what you’re doing and what you’d like to learn or see discussed in this group!

We are eager to hear from you and build the best conservation-tech training space around!

Suz and Andrew

Akiba

@Freaklabs

Freaklabs

I'm an engineer and product designer working on wildlife conservation technology.

1 November 2022 1:52am

Hi. I'm Akiba, an engineer working in conservation technology and 1/2 of FreakLabs. We're planning to publish training materials on how to both use and modify common tools in conservation tech as well as foundational skills required like soldering.

Sounds like an interesting group and definitely looking forward to participating in it.

Akiba

David Savage

@dtsavage

Purdue University

1 November 2022 12:45pm

I'm David, a just-defended PhD working primarily on acoustics and now on climate change and decarbonization. I'd love to see this group develop an easily accessible repository of existing training materials. There's a lot of stuff out there, but knowing that something exists and being able to find it are both very tricky.

One project I'll be working on that would fall under this group's purview (that I've posted about elsewhere in wildlabs) is a guide to IT for ecologists and conservationists.

Sara Beery

@sarabeery

Asst. Prof @ MIT with research at the intersection of computer vision, biodiversity monitoring, conservation, and sustainability.

1 November 2022 7:57pm

Hi all!

I'm Sara, and I'm very interested in developing interdisciplinary training opportunities in computer vision methods for ecology and environmental science. I'm excited to be a part of this group from the CV/ML/AI side!

Nicole Flores

@nflores | She/Her

Conservation International

Wildlife Insights Managing Director

4 November 2022 8:03pm

Hey everyone! I'm Nicole and I'm the managing director of Wildlife Insights. We have a lot of training materials for Wildlife Insights on our website and on youtube and I'd love to hear more about how we can make these resources more accessible to the community!