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Conservation tech work doesn't stop after data is collected in the field. Equally as important to success is navigating data management and processing tools. For the many community members who deal with enormous datasets, this group will be an invaluable resource to trade advice, discuss workflows and tools, and share what works for you.

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Powerful conservation tech tools are gathering more data in the field than ever before. But without equally powerful and effective data management and processing tools, that data - no matter how groundbreaking or interesting - will not be able to reach its full potential for impact.

Data management can sometimes seem intimidating to conservationists, especially those just getting started in the world of conservation tech or experimenting with new data collection methods. While every community member's workflow and preferred data management and processing methods may be different, this group can serve as a resource to explore what works for others, share your own advice, and develop new strategies together.

Below are a few WILDLABS events dealing with datasets collected from various conservation tech tools:

Nicole Flores: How do I get started with Wildlife Insights?

Jamie Macaulay: How do I analyse large acoustic datasets using PAMGuard?

Sarah Davidson: Tools for Bio-logging Data in Conservation

Whatever conservation tech tools you work with, and whatever your preferred data management methods, we hope you'll find something helpful and effective in this group when you become a member!

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Zoological Society London (ZSL)

Water-landing fixed-wing drones in marine ecology and maritime surveillance in MPAs and beyond.

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Doctoral Research at Stanford University | Interested in data science and observational approaches for issues in coastal health

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@LucieZ

Associate Prof. working on hidden biodiversity with eDNA in terrestrial and marine environments

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Space signal processing engineer by day, environmental data analyst by night.

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With a background in cross cultural approaches to conservation, Jennifer currently leads a suite of capacity development programs aimed at creating innovative, inclusive and impact driven solutions to global conservation issues.

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User Support & Data Curation Specialist with Movebank

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Information Scientist — Librarian, Curator, Tech Nerd @ San Diego Natural History Museum

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Description	Activity	Replies	Groups	Updated
United Nations Open Source Principles	All sound, would be nice if there were only 5, though!		AI for Conservation, Citizen Science, Data management and processing tools, Emerging Tech, Ethics of Conservation Tech, Funding and Finance, Geospatial, Open Source Solutions, Software Development	1 month 4 weeks ago
Standard Threshold for "Habitat Use" in Avians?	Thank you so much! This is super helpful and I really appreciate the feedback!		Acoustics, Data management and processing tools	2 months 1 week ago
ICCB 2025 – Let’s Connect!	Hi everyone, I’m excited to become a member of Wild Lab! I’m currently working on my master’s thesis, focusing on dormouse conservation. My research explores the behavioral...		AI for Conservation, Animal Movement, Camera Traps, Citizen Science, Community Base, Data management and processing tools, Early Career, Geospatial	2 months 1 week ago
Sea turtle Bioacoustics Project	That's amazing thanks so much!		Acoustics, AI for Conservation, Data management and processing tools, Early Career	2 months 1 week ago
The 100KB Challenge!	Hi Dan, Not right now but I can envision many uses. A key problem in RS is data streams for validation and training of ML models, its really not yet a solved problem. Any...		Emerging Tech, AI for Conservation, Animal Movement, Build Your Own Data Logger Community, Camera Traps, Connectivity, Conservation Tech Training and Education, Data management and processing tools, Geospatial, Sensors	3 months ago
Camera Trap Data Visualization Open Question	Another question. Right now pretty much all camera traps trigger on either PIR sensors or small AI models. Small AI models would tend to have a limitation that they would...		AI for Conservation, Camera Traps, Data management and processing tools, Open Source Solutions, Software Development	3 months 1 week ago
Paper: Technology's social and structural effects in environmental organizations	Hi everyone - I would like to announce a new case study paper out at CHI 2025! https://mattziegler.net/papers/Cross-Section-...		Connectivity, Data management and processing tools, Ethics of Conservation Tech	3 months 1 week ago
Collecting interesting resources to visualise spatio-temporal data from wildlife observations	Hi, I'm collecting screenshots (and explanation if needed) of visualisations that you found useful. It could be charts, maps, tables...		Data management and processing tools, Animal Movement, Camera Traps	3 months 1 week ago
Machine learning for bird pollination syndromes	We are putting together a special issue in the journal Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology and are welcoming (review) papers on the use of AI in bird research. https://www....		AI for Conservation, Software Development, Citizen Science, Data management and processing tools	3 months 2 weeks ago
Giving different types of labeled data to the community - solutions?	Hello everyone!During my master thesis in engineering (past autumn), I developed Machine Learning for anti-poaching. As such, I recorded a...		Acoustics, AI for Conservation, Data management and processing tools	3 months 2 weeks ago
Free/open-source app for field data collection	Thanks! I am familiar with EarthRanger but wasn't aware it could be used for behavioural data collection	+6	Build Your Own Data Logger Community, Data management and processing tools, Open Source Solutions	3 months 2 weeks ago
Which LLMs are most valuable for coding/debugging?	thanks kristy! super helpful list.		Data management and processing tools, AI for Conservation	4 months 1 week ago

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