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Animal movement technologies are revolutionizing our understanding of wildlife, revealing insights like migration patterns, key corridors, and the impacts of mounting pressures on natural systems. As we continue to develop these tools and work toward translating movement data into actionable insights, coordination between efforts is essential. This group is a place for the animal movement community to connect and discuss our efforts to advance the field.

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Talia Speaker

@TaliaSpeaker
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WILDLABS

World Wide Fund for Nature/ World Wildlife Fund (WWF)

I'm the WILDLABS Research Specialist at WWF-US

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Lacey Hughey

@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.

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Firetail 11 released - for GPS and sensor analysis

Tobias Petri

I wrote a short article on new features in Firetail 11. The most recent version (11.0.3) features some great performance improvements and also fully enables the new reporting module. see also: https://wildlabs.net/...

10 August 2023

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#Tech4Wildlife Photo Challenge: Judges' Panel Honorees

WILDLABS Team

Please join us in celebrating this year’s top #Tech4Wildlife Photo Challenge Honorees as chosen by our panel of leading conservation organization judges, and enjoy the story contained within these entries about how our...

4 August 2023

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#Tech4Wildlife Photo Challenge: Community Choice Honorees

WILDLABS Team

Join us as we count down the WILDLABS community's honorees in the first-ever #Tech4Wildlife Community Choice Awards!

3 August 2023

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A novel kinetic energy harvesting system for lifetime deployments of wildlife trackers

Lars Holst Hansen

"We integrated a Kinetron MSG32 microgenerator and a state-of-the-art lithium-ion capacitor (LIC) into a custom GPS-enabled tracking device that is capable of remotely transmitting data via the Sigfox ‘Internet of...

13 July 2023

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ICARUS flies faster, further

Lars Holst Hansen

The tracking system has begun testing its new satellite receiver that will continue uninterrupted tracking of animals from space

13 July 2023

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Postdoc for electrical engineering at NASA

Roland Kays

Spaceborne Satellite-tag RF Systems to Measure Spatiotemporal Patterns of Wildlife

12 July 2023

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Sustained Effort: Can We Improve the Sustainability of Marine Telemetry Tags?

Alasdair Davies

In this article from Alasdair Davies, he discusses how marine tracking's unique challenges could impact its potential for sustainability in the future.

12 July 2023

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Osa Conservation: A Multi-Tech Toolbox of Solutions

Osa Conservation

In this Conservation Tech Showcase case study from Osa Conservation, you’ll learn about how technology is aiding their long-term efforts to prevent wildlife crime, protect critical species, and build a climate-adaptive...

22 June 2023

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Sustained Effort: Out with the New, In with the Old

Rob Appleby and 1 more

In this interview between Rob Appleby and Ellie Warren, we discuss the importance of DIY, recycling, and sharing tools in order to make our community more sustainable.

14 June 2023

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movedesign: a tool to evaluate sampling design in biologging

Ellie Warren

This paper discusses movedesign, a new R app intended to evaluate the effectiveness of sampling design in animal movement research projects. This tool could be incredibly helpful for biologging community members looking...

12 June 2023

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Wildlife tracking collar powers itself as animals roam

Diep

This article introduces an innovation in wildlife tracking, where researchers have developed a tracker powered by the movement of animals themselves, eliminating the need for battery replacements and allowing for long-...

12 June 2023

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WILDLABS Conservation Tech Intern (The Inventory)

Jake Burton

Come work with us! WILDLABS and Fauna & Flora are seeking an intern to help develop the movement ecology content on the Inventory - our wiki-inspired database of conservation technology. Accepting applications until...

6 June 2023

Description	Activity	Groups	Updated
9-axis sensors for tracking tiny animals	Hi Jay, Alastair, Small world! You've got a great resource at your doorstep then (c: Your idea of tracking the birds between known feeding locations is a good...	Animal Movement	6 years 1 month ago
The OpenCollar Initiative	We're incredibly excited to kickstart the OpenCollar initiative. If you haven't seen it yet, check out opencollar.io ...	Animal Movement	6 years 3 months ago
Drone based orangutan tracking	Thanks all, very useful links, some of them, like the orangutan nest mapping, wildfind, & sensorgnomes, I knew about, some not. Will have a poke :)	Animal Movement	6 years 4 months ago
Integrating GPS trackers and accelerometers to examine the movement ecology of possums in fragmented landscapes	Hi everyone, If you're interested in examining the movement ecology of individuals in fragmented landscapes our new paper 'The...	Animal Movement	6 years 5 months ago
WildFind - a package to produce a georeferenced heatmap of VHF collared animals.	Hello Mike I am not sure whether a datalogger would resolve radio noise problems. I would expect more success from improving the antenna/receiver circuitry to get rid of the...	Animal Movement	6 years 6 months ago
Developing the Next Generation of Animal Telemetry Webinar	Hi everyone, Folks might be interested in a webinar I’ll be hosting with colleagues at HeroX and NASA on our crowdsourcing...	Animal Movement	6 years 7 months ago
Tracking poop... (and therefore seed dispersal)	Just to close this issue - I developed some iButtons and radio trackers which could be encased in medical safe epoxy and inserted into fruits for consumption by elephants....	Animal Movement	6 years 7 months ago
Microwave Telemetry free tags	Microwave PTT's offer 5 free tags annually to early career reserachers. To find out more read the attached document and apply by 31st...	Animal Movement	6 years 7 months ago
Solar balloon to better track wildlife	Thanks Steph, No write-up. This little experiment was squeezed into some actual work. Very happy to describe components if someone is interested. The balloon hobby...	Animal Movement	6 years 8 months ago
Telemetry spanish online course from Spain	Telemetry spanish paid online course from Spain https://ingeoexpert.com/cursos/curso-de-seguimiento-de-fauna-mediante-telemetria/?v=...	Animal Movement	6 years 8 months ago
Mataki-LITE: lessons learned from petrel tracking (Part II: Base-stations)	Results: When we picked them up after a month and a half in the field, the base-stations had worked perfectly for the whole time. The battery levels stayed fairly consistent at...	Animal Movement	6 years 8 months ago
Mataki-LITE: lessons learned from petrel tracking (Part I: GPS loggers)	Recommendations: Mataki-LITE tags have a steep learning curve but they very adaptabile and cheap (for remote-download tags) so I hope these lessons-learned will prove...	Animal Movement	6 years 8 months ago