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, 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, giving 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 who share a passion for conservation tech unite. When you come along 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 who are making an impact in our field all around the world.
The Variety Hour: March 2025
This month, we have three speed talks from Janey Fugate, Santiago Martinez Balvanera, and Samantha King, followed by a longer talk from Akos Ledeczi.
Please note that the start time of this event may be different for you than normal due to Europe and North America experience Daylight Savings at different times!
Janey Fugate will start us off by presenting the Atlas and the Global Initiative on Ungulate Migration. Then, Santiago Martinez Balvanera will discuss how the Bat Conservation Trust is using Whombat to build EchoHub—a citizen science platform for annotating bat recordings. Afterwards, Samantha King will share more information about Marine Monitor (M2), which repurposes traditional and accessible sensors to autonomously document human activity in sensitive marine areas. Finally, Akos Ledeczi will present an acoustic sensor that can be integrated with commercial GPS tracking collars to detect the shockwaves caused by supersonic projectiles.
Sound fun? We'll see you there!
Agenda
- Janey Fugate | Launch of the new Atlas of Ungulate Migration
- @mbsantiago | Integrating Annotation Workflows for Bat Conservation
- @sam.cope.king | Repurposing sensors to document human activity in sensitive marine areas
- Intermission | The WILDLABS Quiz
- Akos @ledeczi | Detecting projectile presence with acoustic animal-borne shockwave detectors
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