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: August 2025
This month, we have three speed talks from Courtney Shuert, Tomi Piriyev, Riley Knoedler, and a long talk from Breanna Shi.
Courtney Shuert will kick things off by introducing Beluga Bits, a long-term monitoring and citizen science project studying beluga whales in Churchill, Canada using 360-degree cameras. Then, Tomi Piriyev will talk about the Loko offline GPS tracker. Afterwards, Riley Knoedler will tell us about BatCopter, a custom made drone for bat surveys with novel AI workflows to process thermal and acoustic data. Finally, Breanna Shi will introduce Human Augmented Analytics Group, an experimental virtual laboratory that facilitates large-scale conservation research by leveraging online computing students.
Sound fun? We'll see you there!
Agenda
- @CourtneyShuert | Beluga Bits, a long-term monitoring and citizen science project studying beluga whales in Churchill, Canada using 360-degree cameras
- @tomipiriyev | Loko offline GPS tracker
- @Riley | BatCopter, a custom made drone for bat surveys with novel AI workflows to process thermal and acoustic data
- Intermission | The WILDLABS Quiz
- @breeshi | The Human-Augmented Analytics Group: simplified collaboration between ecologists and computational scientists
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