Group curators
Talia Speaker
- @TaliaSpeaker
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WILDLABS
World Wide Fund for Nature/ World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
Lacey Hughey
- @lhughey
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Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Animal movement technologies have already significantly advanced our understanding of the natural world, from uncovering previously mysterious migration patterns and key movement corridors to demonstrating the impacts of anthropogenic pressures and climate change. Continuing advances in the development of technologies for collecting and transmitting bio-logging data, combined with the increased availability of high-resolution environmental data and analytical developments in movement modelling, are opening doors to novel applications. However, there are still major gaps in the space, including mobilizing movement data to translate data from tracking devices into insights for application in policy and practice. This group is a place for the animal movement community to connect and discuss our efforts to advance the field.
Resources for beginners
Learn about WILDLABS Animal Movement research projects
- MoveBON Initiative Announcement
- MoveBON Follow-Up Discussion
- Virtual Meetup Season 4: Tracking Progress (A WILDLABS research project on movement ecology)
Group curators
- @TaliaSpeaker
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WILDLABS & World Wide Fund for Nature/ World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
I'm the WILDLABS Research Specialist at WWF-US
- 23 Resources
- 62 Discussions
- 25 Groups
- @lhughey
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Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
I am an ecologist and program manager with experience leading collaborative research projects in international settings. I specialize in the application of animal tracking data to conserve migratory species on a changing planet.
- 6 Resources
- 10 Discussions
- 3 Groups
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- @Gathoni
- | Her/she
PhD Candidate at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Ecologist with a passion for wildlife conservation and conservation technology with foundational training in BSc and MSc Rangeland Management (Ecology option). Current project: Use of acoustics to monitor ecosystem restoration.
- 5 Resources
- 8 Discussions
- 8 Groups
- @miasjien
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University of Canterbury & University of Pretoria
Marine predator ecologist using biologging, remote sensing to understand species movements and the effects on populations. Mainly working in the Southern Ocean and Antarctic currently.
- 0 Resources
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- 9 Groups
- @negar_sadr
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- 0 Resources
- 0 Discussions
- 3 Groups
Arribada Initiative
Director at Arribada, a UK-based conservation technology research & development organisation
- 2 Resources
- 98 Discussions
- 12 Groups
- @Arjun_Viswa
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- 0 Resources
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- 27 Groups
- 0 Resources
- 1 Discussions
- 4 Groups
Botswana Predator Conservation Trust
- 0 Resources
- 85 Discussions
- 10 Groups
- @serena.le
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Conservation tech enthusiast
- 0 Resources
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- 25 Groups
Independent Researcher (Conservation Biologist)
- 0 Resources
- 0 Discussions
- 4 Groups
- @iska1818
- | iska
nature nerd, leopard and eagle lover
- 0 Resources
- 0 Discussions
- 7 Groups
I work in conservation on integrating the technology out there for custom solutions for partners.
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- 23 Groups
Careers
The Wildlife Restoration Foundation is hiring a Conservation Technology Intern
8 February 2024
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For the current e-obs newsletter, Chris Beirne and I have summarized our previous work on the annotation of King vultures in Costa Rica.
20 December 2023
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Bear-dar: Updates from the Field
Lars Holst Hansen
Polar Bear International chat about bear-dar and burr on fur in this video on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfL42Wqctkk
15 December 2023
Article
In the last article of my series examining how people find biologging tech for their projects, I spoke with Annkathrin Sharp, a Programme Officer at Fauna & Flora about how her experience choosing DIY Biologgers to...
14 December 2023
Article
In the penultimate article in my series examining how people find biologging tech for their projects, I spoke with Matthew Stanton about developing custom biologging technology for studying koala behaviour.
7 December 2023
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In the third article examining how people find biologging tech for their projects, I spoke with Samantha Andrzejaczek with the Hopkins Marine Station and Jessica Rudd and Lucy Hawkes of the University of Exeter about...
30 November 2023
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ICOTEQ launch TAGRANGER® system of products
Craig Rackstraw
TagRanger® is a state-of-the-art wildlife finding, monitoring and tracking solution for research, conservation and environmental professionals. With superior configurability for logging data, reporting location and...
23 November 2023
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In the second article in my series examining how people find biologging tech for their projects, I spoke with Yvan Satgé with the Clemson University to discuss how he sourced tags for studying the black-capped petrel.
23 November 2023
Article
Firetail - Black Friday
Tobias Petri
annual license offers available for wildlabs members
21 November 2023
Article
Applications for Animove 2024 are now open !
Adrien Pajot
Applications for Animove 2024 can now be submitted.
16 November 2023
Article
In the first article in my series examining the ways people find biologging tech for their project, Neus Estela Ribera, a Technical Specialist with Fauna and Flora, discusses how she used GPS collars to track elephants...
16 November 2023
Article
How to Choose a Biologger - Where do I start?
Holly Cormack
As the WILDLABS Conservation Technology Intern, I have conducted research into the biologging field to find out what tech is available and how researchers find appropriate tools for their projects. This is the...
16 November 2023
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| Hi Vivian,Thank you so much for your reply! I appreciate the pointers on species mixing, to clarify: I have been experimenting with deer data, but for once the project is underway... |
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Animal Movement | 11 hours 36 minutes ago | |
| Hi Ethan, It's indeed a competitive area. My advice for you (and anybody else seeking a PhD supervisor)...Do background research on each individual potential supervisor and always... |
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Early Career, AI for Conservation, Animal Movement, Climate Change | 3 days 21 hours ago | |
| Hi Thomas, Thanks for your input. It is helpful to get that sort of info as I am not so familiar with the topic and just starting to understand the vast array of tagging... |
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Animal Movement | 1 day 7 hours ago | |
| We are please to inform that we have implemented the point 1 and 4 and with this have finalized the project. The latest improvements:Improvement in findability of help... |
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Animal Movement, Data management and processing tools, Software Development | 6 days 10 hours ago | |
| Hello everyone!My collaborators and I are trying to assess the extent to which animal movement ecology is currently being integrated into... |
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Animal Movement | 1 week 2 days ago | |
| Wonderful video! Really impressive :) |
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Animal Movement, Human-Wildlife Conflict, Latin America Community | 3 months 2 weeks ago | |
| My name is Frank Short and I am a PhD Candidate at Boston University in Biological Anthropology. I am currently doing fieldwork in Indonesia using machine-learning powered passive... |
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Acoustics, AI for Conservation, Animal Movement, Data management and processing tools, Early Career, Emerging Tech, Ethics of Conservation Tech, Protected Area Management Tools, Software Development | 2 weeks ago | |
| Thanks Phil - I have e-mailed you.Peter |
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Animal Movement, Sensors | 3 weeks ago | |
| Hi, we've gotten more than 20 replies until now so thank you if you took the time to answer.And we would really appreciate if you could spare a few minutes to answer if you haven'... |
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Emerging Tech, Animal Movement, Build Your Own Data Logger Community | 1 month 1 week ago | |
| Reopenning this discussion again in case there is some news! |
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Animal Movement | 1 month 3 weeks ago | |
| Good morning JocelynThank you very much for your comment, this is proving to be very useful advice and thank you so much for setting me on the right path!! This is very exciting!!... |
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Animal Movement, Citizen Science, Human-Wildlife Conflict, Marine Conservation, Drones, Community Base, Geospatial | 1 month 4 weeks ago | |
| Hi Nikita, If you haven't already, I'd recommend reaching out to the folks at the Cornell Ornithology lab. They're really glued into all things bird. In particular, I... |
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Animal Movement, Drones, Emerging Tech, Human-Wildlife Conflict | 2 months ago |
How the ‘animal internet’ sheds light on the secrets of migration
22 June 2016 12:21pm
How Open Source Technologies Could Dramatically Reduce the Cost of Tagging Green Sea Turtles
27 May 2016 12:00am
Snake telemetry?
18 May 2016 6:52pm
Polar Bear Satellite Telemetry Innovation Workshop - Redesigning Satellite Telemetry Devices for Polar Bears and Beyond
18 May 2016 1:23am
Text Messages from Teenage Gannets
25 April 2016 12:00am
Request for GPS based animal movement data
11 March 2016 8:26am
13 April 2016 4:27pm
Gautam,
You can join ebird.org and make a request to download their data that contains GPS data for birds.
Jason
13 April 2016 4:50pm
There's also movebank, which is a repository fo wildlife tracking information.
Disruptive Technology: Embracing the Transformative Impacts of Software on Society
10 March 2016 12:00am
Survey on training in animal movement & remote sensing
9 March 2016 4:36pm
Comparing Geolocator and High-Precision GPS Data
9 March 2016 12:00am
15th International Elephant & Rhino Conservation and Research Symposium
4 March 2016 12:00am
GPS carrying vultures are being used to detect illegal dumps in Peru
22 February 2016 4:28pm
2 March 2016 7:27am
The police have tried to use New World Vultures to find dead bodies in Europe. The success was some what limited but not the fault of the birds.
This does open up a whole area of questions about the use of birds and some of the Unforeseen consequences. The latest amazingly stupid idea of using Eagles to bring down drones that was/is being considered by the British police after the Dutch police showed a video of a Juvenile Bald Eagle doing the same. The vultures that are now being deliberately killed in Africa because naturally they are giving away the location of a poached elephant or Rhino. The poor Griffon Vultures that keep being arrested as spies in the middle east as they have rings that have come from Israel on there legs.
There are quite often side effects to these uses of birds that are unforeseen at the out set but usually end up cost the animal involved.
Help needed engineering solar/battery system for tracking collar
23 November 2015 6:41pm
9 February 2016 1:43pm
Dave - Echoing @mygshah - Here is a Mongabay article highlighting Henrik's work.
9 February 2016 10:19pm
This sounds very relevant. I'll pass along to my colleagues. Thanks for sharing, @jprobert and @mygshah !
23 February 2016 7:24pm
@Dave any updates on this project?
Biotelemetry Symposium, May 2016, Belgium
4 February 2016 10:16am
Developing Wild Animal Tracking Systems Using Mataki Technology and UAVs For Use In Conservation
2 February 2016 10:31pm
'Monitoring Wildlife' Issue from J. Applied Ecology. Methods in EE and J. Animal Ecology
22 January 2016 2:44pm
Wildlife Crime Tech Challenge: Winners Announced!
22 January 2016 12:00am
Mobile reporting for rapid wildlife health response
23 December 2015 5:03pm
Big Data and Conservation: Deluge or Drought?
22 December 2015 12:00am
Achieving Moonshots: Advancing Humankind and Preserving Nature
22 December 2015 12:00am
Think for Tigers challenge by WildCRU at Oxford
13 November 2015 7:55pm
9 December 2015 5:12pm
Oh wow. This is perfect for what I do... tracking tigers by their voices alone!
18 May 2016 4:18pm
I tweeted about it!