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The WILDLABS Community Base is the ideal place to get oriented with the all that our community platform offers, hear about news and opportunitys, and to meet new friends and collaborators. 

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Malaysia Meet Up?

Aaron Moy

11 July 2024 6:34am

Hello! I am a conservation technologist based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I’m fairly new to WildLabs and was wondering if anyone is based here or coming through KL and would like...

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Alex Rood

11 July 2024 3:18pm

Hey Aaron! I'm Alex on the WILDLABS Community/Comms team. I'll go ahead and share this call out on our socials to try and increase reach!

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Thoughts on new MSc in Conservation Technology

Emma Higgins

24 May 2024 3:54pm

Hello everyone, We are in the process of developing a new MSc in Conservation Technology at my university and would welcome your feedback. If you would be willing to give...

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Stephanie O'Donnell

29 May 2024 12:44pm

Building on Frank's comments, I'd also think about including some conversation about the ethical use of technology - Trishant's talk at Tech Tutors a little while ago sparked a really important conversation here in our community, one that would be valueable to have with your students. 

Emma Higgins

25 June 2024 9:19am

Hello, 

Thanks for your comments both, and the information, this is really helpful. I agree correct use and validation is so important here. And thank you for the contact for Kate, the course looks really interesting. 

Thank you for your offer, Frank, I'll send an email through. 

 

Best, 

 

Emma 

Alistair Stewart

29 June 2024 6:15am

It would be great to address data collection, handling and storage. It starts with keeping good records of field deployments so that devices can be refound and helps at the time of analysis and reporting and so studies can be reproduced. Having an understanding of metadata standards for data types as these are often overlooked when projects are starting up. Knowing if there are existing databases or repositories for your data or if you will have to 'roll your own' (something more than an Excel spreadsheet, or at least knowing the potential pitfalls of relying on spreadsheets). That would be a great advantage when entering the workforce and working in this field.

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Research in community-based conservation programs: best practices & challenges

Yanna Vogiazou

24 May 2024 9:57am

A practice-based research project: I am carrying out a qualitative research project to better understand the challenges and best practices when designing and...

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Yanna Vogiazou

14 June 2024 5:49pm

Hi Frank,

First of all my apologies, I thought I replied to your suggestion about a couple of weeks ago, but looks like it didn't go through! 

Thank you, I am already interviewing people at WildHub and it has been very interesting. 

My work does relate to technology, but to the aspect of adoption of new innovative solutions and tools. In this context, I would love to talk to professionals who have worked on "citizen science" projects with local communities. Potentially also wildlife monitoring technologies that are meant to be used by local communities beyond the scope of a particular program or funded research. Please let me know if you have any experience in this area or feel free to suggest anyone who might have and would be open to share some reflections :-) Thank you! 

Frank van der Most

17 June 2024 4:42am

Hi Yanna,

No worries about the delay. Good that you already had found WildHub

I'm afraid that I cannot help you any further with concrete contacts ... uh ... well, it is a long shot, but in early 2020 Osa Conservation was trying to get their visitors ( and who knows, also the local population ) to participate in iNaturalist. Don't pin me on this, but I vaguely remember there were some token 'prizes' for x, y or z observations, like stickers or so. Also, I don't know if it was Osa Conservation's own campaign or that it came from iNaturalist.

cheers

Frank

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Are you attending SMART Global Congress 2024?

Adrien Pajot

22 February 2024 11:13am

Hi everybody!Are you attending SMART Global Congress 2024 in early March?I will be in Namibia for the entire duration of the congress, representing WILDLABS, and would be very...

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Paloma

8 June 2024 7:43am

Hey @antoineede ,

I am not sure about that yet video recordings are available or not but you can visit this: SMART Global Congress 2024 | BluePrism

May be here you will get some of the recorded videos to watch.

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VIHAR-2024 deadline extension, June 30th (Interspeech satellite event) 

Marius Miron

5 June 2024 10:30am

Dear Wildlabs community,The submission deadline for VIHAR-2024 has been extended to June 30th, 2024. VIHAR-2024 (https://vihar-2024.vihar.org) is the fourth international...

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Alex Rood

5 June 2024 3:05pm

Thanks for sharing this @nkundiushuti ! I think this post would be better suited as an event, that way it will show up on the WILDLABS event calendar page. Let me know if you have any questions on how to make an event post! You just click the +Post button in the top right corner, then click "event."

Marius Miron

7 June 2024 8:29am

hi Alex!! I already posted the event, I just wanted to posted an update: the deadline was extended. 

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Where do I go with technical questions about this platform?

Frank van der Most

5 June 2024 4:52pm

The 'Getting Started' page promisesUse this thread in the Community Base to ask questions about navigating the platform,but the link does not work. I would also like to...

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Alex Rood

5 June 2024 6:03pm

@JakeBurton is the go-to person for all questions and problems relating to the website! Jake, can you help with this? 

 

We're in the process of updating some of the content on the website, so thank you for drawing our attention to this!

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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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GENZ in STEM Episode 10: Conservation technology, the meaningful career you may have never heard of

Alex Rood

28 May 2024 6:09pm

WILDLABS team members Alex Rood and Esther Githinji sit down with the GENZ in STEM podcast to share resources on how to get started in conservation tech.

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WILDLABS Conservation Tech Meetup, Cambridge

Henry Rees

24 May 2024 10:58am

We are excited to invite you to a special happy hour meetup hosted by the WILDLABS team at our home in Cambridge in the UK! This is a fantastic opportunity to connect with fellow conservation tech enthusiasts, share...

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ENVIRONMENTAL CRIMES WORKSHOP 2024

Alex Rood

23 May 2024 9:01pm

This workshop is intended for researchers, governmental and non-governmental organizations, investigative teams, legal bodies, and international agencies that develop or use Earth Observation for environmental...

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Who's attending the World Biodiversity Forum in Davos?

Talia Speaker

20 May 2024 9:50pm

Hi all, @StephODonnell and I are making plans for our trip to Davos in June for the World Biodiversity Forum. Is anyone else planning to be there? We'll be presenting the findings...

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Robin Sandfort

22 May 2024 8:29am

Sounds great.
At what day will you present your talk?

Greetings from Austria,
Robin

Talia Speaker

22 May 2024 5:39pm

We'll be presenting Wednesday morning as part of session 10.1b on "Integrating earth observations and biological tools in ecology and evolution to cogenerate knowledge towards meeting the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework targets." For the side events, we're planning tentatively for a social Monday evening (following the welcome Apéro) and a meeting Wednesday during or after lunch on leveraging animal movement to meet conservation/policy goals. 

We'd love to see you!

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