Hi Luci.
Did you ever get a response on this? I'd be interested in collaborating and helping develop out the system. We can probably assist in the manufacturing and assembly as well. Let me know if you're interested.
Akiba (read more)
Hello Conservation Dogs group members
WildTrack (wildtrack.org) has just joined WildLabs and we have a new community forum FIT (footprint identification technique), for anyone interested in our... (read more)
Hi all! I hope everyon had a restful break. We have a couple new members to the group! @dalenerusso and @ediminin can you please... (read more)
Hi jprobert, my name is Jennifer Hartman and I work with Rogue Detection Teams. I wanted to share some other resources for you if you are still interested in learning more about conservatin detection dogs and thier applications. From live animals, invasive species as well as scat and toxin... (read more)
Ah! Well you're in luck.. We're doing acoustics first thing next year. Late January some time, so in good time for your field season. We also had the audiomoth team give a talk at one of our previous meetups - Peter Prince's talk is... (read more)
Hi WILDLABbers!
We're looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow in the drones meetup. It's on Wednesday, November 20th from 3:00pm-4... (read more)
Hi Steph - as a career technologist now looking to see how I can engage my skills and experience in the world of conservation technology, this is pretty interesting review of the state of play right now.
All organisations (commercial, government, not-for-profits, military and other... (read more)
Unfortunately, we're not set up to enable download for video recordings at the moment, but we do plan to upload shorter clips of each presentation to YouTube in the near future. We could also potentially make an audio-only version available for download if that would be of interest? (read more)
There's a discussion over in camera traps about the design of a device to run autonomously (in an inaccessible location) with reliable power (solar) but low bandwidth, intermittent communication back to base (cost... (read more)
Here's a link to a study about koala scat detection dogs: https://www.nature.com/articles/srep08349?dom=pscau&src=syn and check out Figure 1, which compares difference in time between detections in dogs and humans... (read more)
Excellent Akiba,
Thank you for your detailed thoughts and for sharing your experiences. (read more)
Hi jlahoz.
In reply to your questions:
"I find commercial open source conservation technology to be a very exciting space, plenty of challenges but also opportunities. The example of the company Arduino comes to mind – plenty of cheaper (legal) “copy” products but... (read more)
Just posted two more datalogger projects for the OpenWild Toolkit in the Sensors category here. Those are the OpenWild Datalogger 900MHz and the OpenWild Datalogger 3G GPS.
So at the moment, we have the OpenWild... (read more)
Hi everyone.
This project is the first one that came out of this thread. @Rob Appleby and I were discussing his WildSpy timer, the... (read more)
Hi everyone!
Check out the WILDLABS Virtual Meetup: Low-Cost, Open-Source Solutions, which is the first webinar of the series this year! Tanya Berger-Wolf (Co-Founder and Director of Wildbook.org), who also attended our AI workshop, will be a speaker at the event as... (read more)
Hi Ollie,
Great article, thank you! I mostly work with responsible AI in other contexts, at Doteveryone.org.uk and the Trust & Technology Initiative at the University of Cambridge, so don't have much to offer here, although I am very interested in the topic. I appreciate your... (read more)
A very good summary all-round Nilanga. Only a wholistic approach can truly resolve conflict. (read more)
Hi Federico,
That's great to hear. Yes, let's skype. I'll send you my info by personal message.
Best (read more)
What are the latest keywords trends, wildlife products, and seller / buyer behaviors that you’re seeing that the Community should be aware of? (read more)
Hi Steph and all,
I don't work with detector dogs directly but colleagues of mine in the Pedernales province of the Dominican Republic have used a dog to locate iguana nests in a dry environment. Iguana nests (which are underground) can be found by looking for a typical hole in the... (read more)
Hi Emily,
Rachel has some practical suggestions about rigging your current centrifuge up to fit the small tubes. What do you think - vIable?
1) If you're measuring hematocrit, perhaps using flat-bottomed vials which do fit (less accurate though)
2)... (read more)
What species monitoring protcols do you know of that explicitly focus on one species?
-John (read more)
Hi Heidi,
You might also consider becoming involved in the eMammal project (emammal.si.edu) that the Smithsonian has recently developed. It has tools for both uploading and coding camera trap images, with the bonus that they are ultimately archived and made available by the Smithsonian... (read more)
Hi folks,
for Site - in our camera trap data base we use the mountain or National/Nature park
Survey - is connected to the time scale - i.e. This mountain2015 or 2016
Station is the actual place of the cameras (1 or 2) with GPS coordinates
Diana (read more)
Bringing over some of the comments we're getting on Twitter:
@WILDLABSNET Our @UAlberta lab deploys ARUs at 1000s of sites in Alberta each year in... (read more)
Hi Steph - just to follow up on your post: @MarcusRowcliffe , James Durrant and I have been working on a bit of software to implement the "computer vision" techniques that are mentioned in that paragraph. You... (read more)
We recently spoke with @andy_manu_peru about arboreal camera trapping. For anyone, ... (read more)
Some camera trap manufacturers offer solar power as an add-on or option off the shelf. I agree that using the image seems like a solution looking for a problem.
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Please share your experiences and how you are using eDNA.
(read more)There will be an eDNA talk at the Mares Conference, February 1st to 5th 2016, Olhão, Portugal
The talk is titled: "Species detections in environmental DNA using... (read more)
I'd like to suggest our open source package Wildbook (http://www.wildbook.org) as a base data management platfor for this. I agree with the above that there are a number of challenges around the vocalizations themselves, but having the identity information... (read more)
