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Anyone can become a citizen scientist - even experts! If you're excited about exploring new areas of conservation tech, contributing to projects, or developing and launching your own citizen science projects or apps, this is the group for you.

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Enhancing Public/Private Safety and Health Through Toilet Mapping

martin wainaina chege

22 July 2024 12:25pm

IntroductionToilets are essential facilities that ensure hygiene and convenience in our communities. However, during periods of heavy rainfall, these vital structures often face...

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Volunteering in Bioacoustics

Cesar Rouer

10 July 2024 9:46am

Hi everyone! I have just joined Wildlabs and I am deeply passionate about bioacoustics and biodiversity conservation. I have been following various impactful work in the field...

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Training Youth and Community on Data Collection as Citizen Scientists.

Ester Matingisa

16 June 2024 4:19am

I’m Ester Matingisa, conservationist with a demonstrated interest in bird ecology and I devoted a great deal of time to working on environmental and biodiversity conservation projects. I’m currently working with...

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Esther Githinji

17 June 2024 1:03pm

Great to read about how you are including your community in conservation tech efforts, Ester!!!
Sarah Maagi

17 June 2024 7:59pm

So inspiring Ester...
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Data loggers for sewage monitoring

Jamie Macaulay

7 May 2024 3:51pm

Hi WILDLABS communityRecently I've been noticing some signs that our local beach in St Andrews, Scotland may be having raw sewage discharged. The monitoring by SEPA, as far as I...

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Harold Tay

18 May 2024 2:55am

Hi Jamie,

Nitrate sensors for sewage are quite pricey, so I might go with a bunch of OpenCTD loggers, on the theory that the conductivity will spike in sewage.  There may also be a detectable temperature signal.

Phil Bresnahan

31 May 2024 6:52pm

Jamie/Harold: OpenCTDs are awesome but unfortunately conductivity won't indicate sewage against a background of seawater. I think DO is an interesting avenue to explore but I'm not aware of much published research on correlations there. I've heard of folks using a variety of fluorescence-based sensors (e.g., CDOM to indicate the organic matter, tryptophan-like fluorescence, and possibly optical brightener fluorescence). I think it's all still a very active field of research, so can't wait to hear what you learn! 

BTW, I thought of SMRU's tags when I just saw this other thread to which @htarold recently replied over here: 

https://wildlabs.net/discussion/how-add-salt-water-switch

If you can share how SMRU implements your tags' saltwater switch(es) in that thread, @jamie_mac, that would be a huge help!

Jamie Macaulay

10 June 2024 8:31am

Thanks both for the replies and apologies for my tardy response. It seems this is not straightforward problem which is a shame as something which could do this would be very handy for holding water companies and regulators (or the government in the case of Scotland) to account. @insituphile - I'll look into the salt water switch.
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New WILDLABS Funding & Finance group

Frank van der Most

5 June 2024 3:24pm

WildLabs will soon launch a 'Funding and Finance' group. What would be your wish list for such a group? Would you be interested in co-managing or otherwise helping out?

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Alex Rood

5 June 2024 4:14pm

This is great, Frank! @StephODonnell, maybe we can try to bring someone from #Superorganism (@tomquigley ?) or another venture company (#XPRIZE) into the fold!
Paul Edonga

6 June 2024 1:38am

I find the group to be dope, fundraising in the realm of conservation has been tough especially for emerging conservation leaders. There are no centralized grants tracking common...
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Technology for Environmental Governance in Kenya

Zipporah Nyokabi Mureithi

15 May 2024 8:36am

Has anyone encountered any environmental project or initiative that has utilized technology to promote governance in Kenya? Please share some examples. Thank you.

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Esther Githinji

15 May 2024 10:55am

Hello @nyokabi great question! What I know of is the following, hope it's helpful:

  1. WildlifeDirect's “Eyes in the Courtroom” project, which monitors wildlife crime cases in court to inform and support improvements to environmental law and prosecution. Think it utilizes some sort of app software.
  2. MIKE
https://citesmike.org/

 

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Using Dart Guns

Michael Hundt

3 May 2024 3:30am

I am looking for experience with using Dart guns for large ungulates such as Elk.  We are working a Elk herd project here in California and plan to dart some bulls and cow...

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AI & Gamified Citizen Science

Brendan Joy

3 May 2024 7:24am

Hi everyone. I have been developing an idea for a gamified citizen science platform. It will leverage machine learning, gamified principles, GIS and collective citizen science to...

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AI-enabled image query system

Sara Beery

2 May 2024 2:16am

Online citizen science platforms like iNaturalist and Macaulay Library contain a wealth of images but are hard to search using text. We are looking for ideas so we can develop the...

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Ecologist Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Alex Rood

23 April 2024 4:32pm

The incumbent will develop models and metrics that can be used to shape conservation policy using multiple data sources including camera traps, movement data and citizen science concerning the diversity and...

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Thoughts on RooBadge?

Alex Rood

2 April 2024 2:55pm

I came across this new Volkswagen initiative today, RooBadge, a vehicular kangaroo deterrent that uses telemetry data to automatically play high-frequency sounds in dense kangaroo...

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Colin Cook

5 April 2024 12:31pm

Sound deterrents to prevent collisions with Kangaroos in Australia have been sold for many years. None have been shown to work. Whether the Volkswagen device will be any better waits to be seen. Collision data will have to be collected for a while to see if the VW device has any effect on collision rate.

Kim Lane

8 April 2024 12:49am

That is an interesting concept, and it would be great if something out there worked. In the meantime, I will try not to drive at dusk 🦘

At one point, I knew the "sonic" animal guards were the most stolen components of cars. You head in, get groceries, and come out, and they are gone. They weren't on the car long enough for me to confirm that would work

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BirdWeather | PUC

Tim Clark

27 October 2023 7:45pm

Hi Everyone,I just found out about this site/network!I wanted to introduce myself - I'm the CEO of a little company called Scribe Labs.  We're the small team behind...

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Alex Rood

2 November 2023 9:20pm

I love the live-stream pin feature!

Wildlife Drones

14 March 2024 10:29pm

Hi Tim, I just discovered your great little device and about to use it for the first time this weekend. Would love to be directly in touch since we are testing it out as an option to recommend to our clients :) Love that it includes Australian birds! Cheers Debbie

Wildlife Drones

16 March 2024 10:47pm

Hi @timbirdweather I've now got them up and running and winding how I can provide feedback on species ID to improve the accuracy over time. It would be really powerful to have a confirmation capability when looking at the soundscape options to confirm which of the potential species it actually is or confirm it is neither to help develop the algorithms.

Also, is it possible to connect the PUC to a mobile hotspot to gather data for device that isn't close to wifi? And have it so that it can detect either wifi or hotspot when in range? Thanks!

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