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: July 2025
This month, we have three speed talks from Kevin Darass, Vanessa Prema, Timothy Keitt, and a long talk from Roxanne Beltran and Allison Payne.
Kevin Darass will kick things off by introducing Worldwide Soundscapes, a collaborative network and growing database comprising metadata from 416 datasets. Then, Vanessa Prema will share her project advancing machine learning techniques for the study of Himalayan bird song. Afterwards, Timothy Keitt will tell us about BioSense, an automated sensing node for organismal and environmental biology. Finally, Roxanne Beltran and Allison Payne will introduce novel acoustic recorders for eavesdropping on the ocean soundscape.
Sound fun? We'll see you there!
Agenda
- Kevin Darras: Worldwide Soundscapes: A Synthesis of Passive Acoustic Monitoring Across Realms
- Vanessa Prema: Audio Analysis of Hume’s Leaf Warbler Project
- Timothy Keitt: Do-it-Yourself Sensing with the BioSense Platform
- Intermission | The WILDLABS Quiz
- Roxanne Beltran and Allison Payne: Novel Acoustic Recorders for Eavesdropping on the Ocean Soundscape
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