Congrats on your new position Carly! Excited to see what will come with the collaboration! Looking forward to learn the new approach and applied it to our site in future!

Hello Carly,  congrats, that sounds like a cool project.

I'm curious to hear about your hardware solutions for this.  I've been building ML models for both camera trap images and audio recorders in New Zealand. Mainly for bird & predator recognition, doing all processing on high performance machines in-office.  However the next logical step for us is combine the image systems with audio, ideally including ultrasonic frequencies as well as 32kHz.  It's not clear yet to me how to meet the goals for the audio recording with reasonable battery-life, cost and equipment weight.  Typically our rangers would need to carry tens of these devices in a backpack, and we would like to leave them out for weeks.

The next Digital Naturalism Conference is happening in June/July of next year in Bali, and I know that there will be some folks there working on the Mothbox, an open source insect monitor. If you want to incorporate insect biodiversity data into your project, I'd be happy to chat with you more about the Mothbox! 

Hi Carly, this is really cool and a great way to incorporate indigenous knowledge with data collected by sensors. Have you identified any statistical techniques you will use to combine the data points from camera traps and bioacoustics? Are you setting them up at the same sites or with interlapping grids? Would love to talk with you about this as we at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute are working to integrate tools, platforms, and technology to improve biodiversity monitoring.