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The WILDLABS Fellowships & Awards Programme

WILDLABS Team

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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Training the Trainers

David Savage

22 October 2021 5:04pm

Hey all, this came up in journal club today (journal club is great and you should come). I know a lot of us end up having to train others in how to use hardware or software tools...

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Hiring - Technologist in US

Christine Sutter

28 September 2021 5:23pm

Natural Power's Global Wildlife Technology group has an opening for a Technologist in the US.  Our group develops technologies to solve wildlife and energy conflicts. We...

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WILDLABS Journal Club: DIY camera trap, optimising use of biologgers, Allen Coral Atlas

Stephanie O'Donnell

21 May 2021 8:19pm

Hi everyone,  It is so hard to stay on top of the sheer volume of conservation tech literature and work happening - even for our team! So to help with this, we started a...

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Stephanie O'Donnell

19 June 2021 11:47am

Alright - everyone who has asked for an invite on any social platform *should* have a calendar invite in their email from me (it'll be from my @fauna-flora.org email). If I've somehow missed you, can you please shout? 

Steph

Jessie Oliver

16 September 2021 7:48am

Hey Stephanie, I remember this idea being kicked around and I indicated interest some time ago, but if I am not on the list you have going, I would love to passively follow, appreciating the timezones likely will be difficult for me to follow live from Australia. 

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Tech Tutors Capacity Building Episode: Call for Input

Ellie Warren

19 August 2021 8:37pm

Hi all, Our upcoming presenter Meredith Palmer is looking for community input as she works on her Tech Tutors presentation! In October, Meredith will kick off our third block...

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Meredith Palmer

23 August 2021 11:32am

Thanks for posting, Ellie!

Hi all, would love to have a chat with anyone who has experience or insight in this area (and possibly put together a perspectives piece based on this episode). Looking forward to hearing from you all! 

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IUCN Marseille

olivier rovellotti

8 July 2021 8:48am

Hi there Any of you guys are coming to marseille in septembre. It is our home town so we can meetup and hack around? https://www.iucncongress2020.org/ Cheers

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Cris Thompson

23 July 2021 5:04pm

Hi Oliver, 

We are coming down, and I was just wondering...  Seeing as as are no longer un the EU (very sad face) it might be a good idea for us to get cards and flyers printed by a local company rather than trying to bring them through customs ourselves.

Do you know of any local helpful printing companies?

See you there!

Cris.

Carly Batist

30 July 2021 1:57pm

Will be there virtually! Not in the EU so unfortunately wouldn't be able to go with COVID restrictions, but looking forward to connecting with folks online!

And a plug that WILDLABS has a session :) - https://www.iucncongress2020.org/programme/official-programme/session-43507 ("WILDLABS: Broadening participation in conservation technology innovation and application")

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Journal Club tomorrow (July 30, 10:30am EST) - review paper discussion

Carly Batist

29 July 2021 5:21pm

Hi!  Steph, Ellie & I were thinking it might be cool to just focus on 1 paper this week for journal club, that paper being the hot-off-the-press review article "A...

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Akiba

29 July 2021 9:33pm

Hi. I can give a brief blurb on the state of wireless sensor networks if you want. I don't think it will be a very deep dive due to time limitations, but can discuss how we're seeing it in terms of field deployment of wireless sensor networks.

Akiba

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Hack4Nature : tech for biodiversity

olivier rovellotti

25 January 2021 10:11am

We are organizing this year a giant online hackathon (12 challenges) around biodiversity and tech: the night the city the agriculture and the sea We are using AI...

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TaleciaR

29 January 2021 8:49pm

Is this available for participants outside of France? I'd love to be involved!

olivier rovellotti

8 July 2021 8:45am

Yep Its sill open you can join Slack hack4nature.slack.com ?

olivier rovellotti

8 July 2021 8:46am

Yep Its sill open you can join Slack 

https://join.slack.com/t/hack4nature/shared_invite/zt-t1rw4ee8-3_nFMzc~4zyyrkT~YucE8w ?

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Earth Defenders Toolkit Global Launch

Arky

8 July 2021 5:54am

The Earth Defenders Toolkit is a collaborative space for earth defenders and their allies. The Toolkit provides a growing collection of resources and training materials for...

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WILDLABS Journal Club: Project Rattlecam, whaleshark eDNA & the Problem with innovation challenges

Stephanie O'Donnell

2 July 2021 5:10pm

Hi everyone,  Lovely to see everyone at this week's journal club! Here are the slides & links from this week's journal club if you want to dig in and read...

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Stephanie O'Donnell

2 July 2021 5:10pm

Read more: 

Carly's in case you missed it:

  • New Species on WildMe: new wildbooks (Grouper Spotter, Salamander Wildbook), ML support now for bobcats, clouded leopards, ocelots, great white sharks, Indo-pacific humpback whales, bottlenose dolphins 

  • SeaBee: establish drone-based infrastructure for scientific research in Norway (pilot training, data storage, ML algorithms, specs/data standards, etc.) 

  • Reckoning with elitism & racism in conservation: Mongabay article, interview with Colleen Begg, South African conservationist

  • Underwater AI detection: created by Jake Easterling of Scubotics, upload videos and ID the fish you saw! 

  • Evidensia.eco: From WWF, Rainforest Alliance & iseal; effort to make credible evidence about impacts & effectiveness of market-based sustainability approaches accessible to inform policy & practice 

  • CarbonPlan: non-profit that analyzes climate solutions, builds open tools/resources for evaluation & deployment of them, improving transparency & scientific integrity of carbon remocal 

  • DevelopmentSeed: engineering & product company accelerating application of accessible geospatial analysis (Cloud Geo), planetary AI, etc. to make evidence-based decisions that benefit the planet 

  • Remotely monitoring honeybees: Best Bees Company installs hives on commercial and residential properties (pays property owners) & use software system to monitor and record colony health, data shared with researchers

  • GoodAI community: “empowering companies that use AI to help deliver on SDG’s”; online discussion boards, company directory, job board, responsible AI resources 

  • Highest resolution global map released: from Impact Observatory, Esri & Microsoft AI for Earth; using Sentinel-2 imagery at 10-m resolution & image segmentation CNN (UNet)

  • Brazil’s wildlife forensics initiative: Amazonas state using isotope ratio mass spec to detect geographic origin of animals (captive-bred vs wild-caught, and where in the wild), products (timber, gold, etc.)

  • ConservationAI: UK ngo detecting & classifying animals, evidence of illegal activity from pictures and thermal images collected by camera traps, drones (can use 3/4G comm’s for real-time monitoring); upload data to site, models (TensorFlow automatically run them and give you analytics dashboard 

  • New Analytics Lab from Conservation Science Partners (US non-profit): develop & prototype software, computational environments & data products to monitor land use, analyze ecosystems, develop climate change projections, etc. 

  • eBioAtlas: from NatureMetrics & IUCN; creating global atlas of life for Earth’s rivers & wetlands using eDNA; interfaces with IUCN RedList & GBIF; freely available 

  • Global Environmental Crime Tracker: from the Environmental Investigation Agency; central public database of illegal wildlife & timber activity (pulls from publicly available info, media coverage); currently for Asia, Africa & Europe

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Tech Tutors 3 is Coming: Call for topics & presenters!

Stephanie O'Donnell

23 June 2021 11:22am

Hi Wildlabbers,  It's been a quiet few months since Tech Tutors 2 wrapped, but a *lot* of things have been happening behind the scenes that we're really...

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Akiba

24 June 2021 2:08am

Oh, so excited to hear more about what's been going on. Looking forward to watching Tech Tutors 3 also. There's been something missing in my late evenings :)

Ollie Wearn

24 June 2021 3:33am

A suggestion for something I repeatedly get asked:

- How do I create maps of land cover change for my area and assess accuracy, using free software and limited (or no) coding skills?

Any takers?? I keep meaning to take a look at the latest plugins in QGIS, for example, but haven't got around to it...

Ollie

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