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Apply to the 2022 GOSH Gathering in Panamá!

briannaljohns

29 March 2022 9:46pm

The Gathering for Open Science Hardware (GOSH) community is excited to announce that applications to attend the 2022 GOSH Gathering are now open! The Gathering will be held at...

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briannaljohns

26 April 2022 11:01am

There are only a few days left to apply to the 2022 Gathering for Open Science Hardware! Join a community of scientists, hardware developers, artists, and activists working together on open hardware for science!

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Black Mammalogists Week - Get Involved!

Ellie Warren

14 April 2022 11:50pm

Hi Wildlabbers, Our Black Mammalogists Week friends are gearing up for a week of great conservation discussion, networking, and collaborating! On May 3rd, they'll be...

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Gabriela Fleury

15 April 2022 7:35pm

Hi all! My name is Gabi Fleury and I'm part of the Black Mammalogists Week organizing committee and will be collaborating with WILDLABS on setting up this May 3rd Hackathon.

Really excited to have people involved in this event and am available to ask any questions here on the forum, or through a DM on Twitter at @fleurygs or through my email fleurygs@gmail.com. The Google Form is a great place to start to get you signed up and interacting on our Slack platform and forming teams, so please do fill it out if interested!

As was mentioned, we also would love to start gathering subject area experts, so if you're an expert in tech and you'd like to volunteer your expertise to advise this event's participants, please do drop me a line!

 

 

 

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Technical Difficulties Community Discussion

Ellie Warren

13 October 2021 6:35pm

Hi Wildlabbers, We're so excited to celebrate WILDLABS' new editorial series, Technical Difficulties, an exploration of conservation tech...

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Matthew Stanton

20 January 2022 1:55am

Thanks Jared,

That is useful information. I can see that it might be temperature differential condensation causing the problem as the board is on the end of the housing (in the cap). I'll try coating the exposed, non-moving parts of the board. The card contacts and the microphone will still need to be uncoated though.

The draining case was one option I considered but there is no guarentee that the case orientation will remain suitable.

Matthew Stanton

20 January 2022 2:03am

I had considered a heat shrink case but the heat shrink I tried was insufficiently abrasion resistant for a koala. Maybe I should have tried using this with a resin coating or a layer of Teflon tape.

The PLA is remarkably abrasion resistant.

Matthew Stanton

8 April 2022 3:21am

An update on my audio cases.

I tried changing a few things.

1. Changed battery brand and thus the age of the batteries I was being supplied. The Tadiran cells being supplied to me were made in 2014! Now in theory that should not matter with these cells. They have extreme shelf lives. But I ordered some Chinese Fanso cells and these were made just last year.

2. I have started using teflon adhesive tape to cover the audio 'vent' and around the neck side of the casing to increase the slip of the case and help keep the collar the right way up (GPS up, audio device down). The teflon tape does not have much pliability so I'm limited to the surfaces it can be fitted to. It does not stick to itself so I can't even wrap it in multiple layers but it does bond to PLA and the reflective tape. The teflon tape is more puncture resistant and it is naturally water dispersing. It does have different audio qualities though with a bit of a drum like reverb.

I have just retrieved a collar deployed 10 weeks ago using these two modifications. During this period the device has been exposed to 920 mm of rainfall, more than the average annual rainfall of the study site and the highest monthly total ever recorded in this part of Australia, so if the case was ever going to leak, this was going to do it! There is no evidence of water incursion in the case. There is no corrosion on the board or the battery and the recording device worked.

Of course the Russian assembled audio devices are currently off limits to me so I'm limited to the stock I currently have. If anyone is aware of an alternative board that I might use, I would love to hear about it. My requirements are: low power requirement (<2 mA), capacity to store 256 gb, small size (these ones are thumbnail sized), ability to record low frequencies (at least as low as 20 Hz). The µMoth is about four times the size and uses at least three times as much power. I have no need for the kind of processing power that the µMoth offers. I have found some chinese voice recorders that offer reasonably low power drain and small size but they have some kind of low frequency (high pass) filters built in which makes them of limited use for my project. If anyone has some suggestions I would love to hear them.

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Friday check in - what have you been working on this week?

Stephanie O'Donnell

11 March 2022 12:59pm

Hi everyone,  How are you all doing this week? I'd love to hear about what you've been working on - drop into the thread today and share photos, wins/fails,...

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Lindy Clyde Knowles

25 March 2022 2:37pm

Hi Stef (and others), I've been using old Natural resource maps from the 1970's to look at the habitats and resources that are identified within protected areas, most of which we haven't been able to survey in the future to help in a management planning workshop so that we can better understand what assessments need to be done in these areas for effective management of the resources.
some of the data isn't digitized as yet, 

Stephanie O'Donnell

25 March 2022 4:12pm

Heya @LindyClydeKnowles - so nice to see you! This is super interesting, thanks for sharing :) 

Some cool stuff happening over on twitter too: 

Got back from deploying some AudioMoths & Swifts in SE Madagascar! Passive acoustic monitoring for lemurs. Also found out I got accepted to the @cv4ecology summer school! pic.twitter.com/qIlVE3hsqg

— Carly Batist (@Carly_Batist) March 12, 2022

Heard that I’ve been awarded £5k for acoustic recorder purchase! 

— Carlos Abrahams (@abr_eco) March 11, 2022

Been reviewing data from some recorders I put out in vineyards last year. Some fun stuff going on! pic.twitter.com/OM7NOM3v7k

— David Savage (@david_t_savage) March 11, 2022

@LiamSeaDickson I bet you did something exciting this week 

— Stuart Negus (@Stu_707) March 11, 2022

I had the opportunity to present my research using #drones4good to MPs at the Houses of Parliament, and talk about the importance of conserving our marine environment! 

I was a finalist in the #STEMforBRITAIN competition - it was an incredible experience! pic.twitter.com/W8cdW3IqCg

— Liam C Dickson (@LiamSeaDickson) March 11, 2022

 

 

Lars Holst Hansen

25 March 2022 4:21pm

Hello!

I have been watching GPS collars carefully as their are nearing their time of drop-off. We are testing burst fixes on these last few weeks of their 2.5 year deployment. So I am keeping a close eye on the battery levels so they will not die before beeing dropped off.

Also, I have been cooperating with Tobias from the Firetail acceleration and tracking visualization software to get support of ACC data from our Vectronic Vertex Plus collars.

Finally I have testing IP security cameras to see if they could be suitable to monitor our arctic fox dens in Greenland.

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WILDLABS Journal Club: Global Priority Mapping, AI for Good, and Conservation Messaging

Ellie Warren

10 September 2021 7:46pm

Hi Wildlabbers,  We've had another great Journal Club session today! Here are the slides & links from this week's club if you want to explore the papers...

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Morgan Gray

11 March 2022 5:15pm

Once you're up and running please add me to the list!

Yelka Mikolji

13 March 2022 3:06pm

Thanks.  What's the link to the paper about conservation messaging?

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Opportunity: Graphic Designer

Conservify

8 March 2022 12:00am

The FieldKit team is now seeking a freelance Graphic Designer with a passion for conservation technology! If you'd like to use your skills to connect with a conservation technology community, please send a cover letter...

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Survey on Economic Value of Ecological Data

David Savage

27 January 2022 12:51am

Hello everybody!  I'm working on a project dealing with some methods we can potentially use to assess the economic value of conservation tech and/or ecological data....

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David Savage

23 February 2022 4:27pm

Just re-upping this in hopes that I can get some more responses if it gets to the top of people's feeds.

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The WILDLABS Fellowships & Awards Programme

Stephanie O'Donnell

28 January 2022 3:58pm

The WILDLABS community is designed for conservation technology experts and future leaders with big ideas. WILDLABS Fellowships are designed to put funding and tools into the hands of those who can make big ideas into...

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John Olang

2 October 2024 9:08pm

Please I would like to join the conservation tech 
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Digital Naturalism Conference Sri Lanka 2022

Andrew Quitmeyer

22 November 2021 2:53pm

Hi Wildlabbers! The Digital Naturalism Conference July 2022 - Batticaloa, Sri Lanka 2022.dinacon.org We are excited to announce that we are going to have the next...

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Theun K

3 December 2021 5:56pm

great to see a new DiNaCon!

can't make it there myself, but highly recommended.

T

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WILDLABS Fellowships

Stephanie O'Donnell

22 July 2021 12:23pm

Hi wildlabbers! We are delighted to announce the launch of the WILDLABS Fellowship Programme, so I'm here to tell you a bit more about the fellowships, our...

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Akiba

22 July 2021 2:39pm

Congratulations, Steph. 

This sounds like a great idea and a big step forward. Looking forward to hearing about all the projects. Also happy to help out if needed :)

Akiba

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Updated conservation tech directory site!

Carly Batist

28 September 2021 3:14pm

@gracieermi and I just migrated our Conservation Tech Directory site to a new platform that is more user-friendly and aesthetic. It has a snazzy link title now too! - ...

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Antoine Ede

11 October 2021 11:17am

Great did not know that this list exist

Carly Batist

22 October 2021 8:06pm

Quick note that we've done another update last week, so the site now has 489 resources listed! The figshare link and PDF have also been updated.

Akiba

23 October 2021 2:35am

Thanks Carly. It's such a useful resource :)

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