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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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University of California

retired Field Station Director, very early adopter of conservation technologies

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@Amelie

I'm project manager of a mountain biodiversity observatory : ORCHAMP

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@Jon_Sullivan
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Kia ora. I'm an ecologist at Lincoln University in Aotearoa-New Zealand. In these decades of rapid environmental change, I've turned myself into a human ecological monitoring machine (~1.5 millon observations so far since 2003). I'm now working on how to format and share my data.

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Security and Conservation Data Management Officer for a private conservancy.

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Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)

Wildlife Biologist and Marine Conservationist

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Natural Resources Engineer. Birdwatcher and citizen science lover, data science enthusiast.
Wanting to learn more ways to use technology for conservation.

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@judy

I am an interdisciplinary scientist with robust experience in natural resource utilization, coexistence, conflict analysis and management, peacebuilding and mediation, wildlife farming and conservation, and dryland and rangeland management.

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GIS and Database Coordinator at the Rainforest Foundation UK

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Design Strategist - Regenerative Futures

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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	5 months 3 weeks 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	6 months 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	6 months 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	6 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	6 months 1 week 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	6 months 1 week 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	6 months 1 week ago
Which LLMs are most valuable for coding/debugging?	thanks kristy! super helpful list.		Data management and processing tools, AI for Conservation	7 months ago
Video evidence for the evaluation of behavioral state predictions	No, not yet. The player we attached does support slower/faster replay up to a certain precision, but I'm not sure that this will be sufficiently precise for the kind of offsets we...		Animal Movement, Data management and processing tools, Sensors, Software Development	7 months 3 weeks ago
Firetail 13 - now available	and a short contribution in this e-obs setup, where we used Firetail VideoSync to analyze motion-triggered camera footage:		Software Development, Animal Movement, Data management and processing tools	7 months 4 weeks ago
Detecting Thrips and Larger Insects Together	So, updated the text a bit with images cropped at 100% zoom :) we are already happy with the time reductions we got, but... would like to get at least 90% time reduction instead...		Data management and processing tools, Latin America Community, Sensors	8 months ago
Mirror images - to annotate or not?	Seems like we should include some rotations in our image augmentations as the real world can be seen a bit tilted - as this cropped corner view from our fisheye at the zoo shows.	+13	AI for Conservation, Camera Traps, Data management and processing tools	8 months ago

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