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Bringing Conservation Technology to Life

Shah Selbe

17 February 2016 12:00am

We are living in the midst of a pretty exciting era. Never before has humanity been more educated, more connected, more enabled, or more empowered than we are today. There are many reasons to be optimistic about the...

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Upcoming Events

Stephanie O'Donnell

3 December 2015 1:44pm

We've already heard from a couple of group managers who are going along to events and are keen to organise WILDLABS.NET meetups while they're there. Do you guys know of...

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Stephanie O'Donnell

5 February 2016 3:40pm

Hi Courtney, 

Excellent, thanks for the suggestion! At first glance this sounds like a good idea. Let's discuss in our next catch up. 

Cheers, 

Steph 

Stephanie O'Donnell

5 February 2016 3:41pm

Hi Gautam, 

This sounds great, thanks for highlighting it. Let's have a brainstorm in our next catchup about what we can do. 

Cheers, 

Steph 

Stephanie O'Donnell

5 February 2016 3:42pm

Hi John, 

Yes, but tentatively! We'll definitely have a presence at the congress and likely hold an event of some sort, but we don't have any details yet. I'll keep you posted about wildlabs at the congress as we get closer. 

Steph

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JIGZAW and Mars Omega, an introduction

Anthony Franks

2 February 2016 3:17pm

Hi All, Gautam has asked that I tell you a bit about who we are and what we do. The three Mars Omega Partners are all senior ex-British Army officers, with backgrounds in...

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Gautam Shah

3 February 2016 4:44am

Thanks Anthony - what is the best way to introduce others to your product and solutions?  I live in Kenya - can you disclose who you are working with here?

With regards to a scale up partner, can you provide a few more details on what you are looking for?

Gautam!

Anthony Franks

3 February 2016 10:08am

Hi Gautam,

I think the best way is have them read the thread, and then get back to me with questions - I can then respond on a case-by-case basis.  Our website is here: http://www.marsomega.com.  We have not yet updated it to make public our involvement in countering wildlife crime, but that will be done shortly.

On disclosure, Hamish is actually in Kenya from tomorrow, and he is talking to our Kenyan partners to make sure they are happy to have this information made more freely available.  We necessarily are being very discreet.

On scaling - as one of the 16 Prize WInners in the Wildlfe Criem Tech Challenge, we have only just started talking to the competition sponsors about acceleration and scaling.  Once we have established that process and have more information ourselves, I will be happy to discuss this further.

Best regards,

Anthony

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DNA in scent marks

Paul Glover-Kapfer

28 January 2016 5:03pm

This could be huge for monitoring territorial species, not to mention have the potential to reduce the number of poor souls that have to handle carnivore...

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Illegal wildlife sales on social media

Rachel Kramer

4 January 2016 3:56pm

A great example of enforcement where illegal wildlife sales were detected on social media:  Facebook Investigation Leads to Turtle Thieves An...

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Jessica Sweeney

26 January 2016 4:14pm

This post made me wander whether we could employ social media listening tools to identify illegal wildlife trade hotspots, levels, changes in attitude towards IWT products etc.? Perhaps already being done? Here's some case studies from Brandwatch of how brands are using social media listening: https://www.brandwatch.com/case-studies/

 

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Upcoming Conferences

Sarah Kuppert

25 January 2016 4:57pm

Dear all, this thread is meant to serve as a location to post about upcoming conferences that are relevant for eDNA research. Please share if you know about upcoming...

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Introductions

David J Klein

10 December 2015 8:13pm

Welcome to the Machine and Deep Learning group! Here, we'll be discussing current and future uses of Deep Learning (DL) and more broadly Machine Learning (ML) for improving...

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David J Klein

10 December 2015 8:41pm

To start things off...

I'm David J Klein. My background is in deep learning, machine learning, neuroscience, neuromorphic computing, and signal processing. I've been doing the startup thing Silicon Valley for the last 11 years after being in academia for a while. I've worked on products ranging from speech recognition systems, to cloud-based deep learning platforms. These days, some use the blanket term "AI". 

For the last several years I've been developing software for Conservation Metrics which gives their analysists the ability to use deep learning to process large volumes of audio and image data from remote sensors in order to monitor population density changes of endangered species, detect collisions of birds and bats with infrastructure,  and find rare and elusive species. 

More broadly, I'm interested in integrating many disparate sensing domains from eDNA, to land-based sensors, to GIS data in order to provide tools to conservation scientists and ecologists that will enable them to develop a higher resolution understanding of the health of ecosysems around the globe and their response to positive or negative human interventions.

I'm looking forward to interacting with you all. Please let me know what other questions you have for me, and other ways I can help.

Regards,
David

Jason Holmberg

17 January 2016 9:08pm

Hi,

 

I am jason Holmberg from WildMe.org. I am one of the developers of Wildbook (wildbook.org), an open source data management platform for wildlife research. I'm using ML as part of the IBEIS.org project to boost and metascore multiple computer vision algorithms for individual humpback and sperm whales. David, I would love to speak offline if you have the time: jason@wildme.org.

 

Cheers,

Jason

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