WILDLABS
World Wide Fund for Nature/ World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
You’re invited to the WILDLABS Variety Hour, our monthly community event connecting you to the exciting projects, research, and ideas that are happening in conservation tech right now.
You never know what you’ll find and who you’ll meet at our Variety Hour, and that’s part of the fun! You might catch speed talks from community members working around the world, learn from a leading conservation tech expert, discover a new tool, test your wildlife trivia skills, or find a great opportunity. Maybe you’ll even do all of the above!
The WILDLABS Variety Hour isn’t a show, or a lecture, or a workshop. It's an engaging, fun, and interactive gathering that gives you a welcoming space to share your own projects and resources, ask and answer questions, have insightful conversations, meet collaborators, make friends, and get to know the conservation tech community in a new way.
Great ideas and discussions are sparked when people with a passion for conservation tech unite. When you come to the Variety Hour, you’re joining a space full of people who care about conservation tech just like you; when you leave the Variety Hour, we hope you’ll take away fresh inspiration and the knowledge that you belong to a global community making an impact in our field worldwide.
The Variety Hour: July 2024
This month, we have three speed talks from Neville Boorman, David Gaynor, Sara Olsson, and Luci Kirkpatrick.
Neville Boorman will kick off July's Variety Hour by introducing an upcoming initiative to enhance wildlife tracking through the deployment of new satellites which aim to improve data transmission rates, bolster wildlife monitoring efforts, and provide researchers and conservationists with more timely and detailed information for better understanding and protecting animal populations globally. David Gaynor will give an overview of the current problems with snare detection and speak to how radar can address this problem by sharing the results of his trials and the path forward. Then, Sara Olsson will present experiments using ChatGT for camera trap laveling and synthetic dataset generation. Finally, Luci Kirkpatrick will dive into how IoSA's miniaturised proximity loggers, which provide high-resolution data in a tiny, <1g package, are helping to understand the oft-neglected movement and behaviour of smaller animals.
Sound fun? We'll see you there! Register here.
Agenda
- Neville Boorman | Revolutionizing Wildlife Tracking: Near Real-Time Solutions with Enhanced Argos Satellites
- David Gaynor | Detection of wildlife snares at scale using airborne synthetic aperture radar
- Sara Olsson | Exploring ChatGPT for wildlife monitoring: Camera trap labeling and synthetic dataset generation
- Intermission | The WILDLABS Quiz
- Luci Kirkpatrick | Recording proximity and movement behaviour in miniature.
Past Recordings
Can't wait for this Variety Hour? Why not check out our past events! You can find all of the on our YouTube Channel.
- Variety Hour June | Hear about Move BON, a new initiative to mobilize animal tracking data in support of national and global scale conservation goals, a multi-sensor bee monitoring system, thermal imaging applications in conservation, and an effort to build an AI-assisted evidence synthesis pipeline using LLMs, with the ultimate goal of building a living evidence database that is able to keep up the the rapidly growing scientific literature.
- Variety Hour April | Featuring talks from @Annacq on bridging biodiversity and business, @BrunaTeixeira on using acoustic indexes as an indicator of anthropogenic pressure, @kklibra on mitigating human-wildlife conflict & illegal trade through IT solutionsm, and (@capreolus on bridging classical biodiversity monitoring with emerging bioacoustics and AI
- Variety Hour March | This month we're talking about making AI more accessible with Pytorch, new developments from WildMe and TagRanger, and working with geospatial data with Fauna & Flora.
- Variety Hour October | This month to hear about a low-cost design for an aquatic stereo camera, a cost-effective design for nocturnal, infrared video recording, The Inventory, the dynamic, wiki-inspired platform we've been building for conservation tech, and a whirlwind update of google's work on AI for nature.
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