WILDLABS groups like this one are where conservation tech community members from every career stage gather to ask questions, share resources, and network. If you're just getting started in your #tech4wildlife career, making a career change from the tech world into conservation, or you're a student finding your path in the field, the Early Career group wants to meet you!
Likewise, the Early Career group is an excellent place for our conservation tech experts to share opportunities and resources with a wide audience of people who will make a big impact in conservation in the coming years.
How can you get started in our Early Career group?
- Visit our Welcome Thread and tell us about yourself and your career goals!
- Drop into our Share Your Master's Project thread to ask questions, share your updates, get advice, and discuss your project goals with people who can help you make progress
- Network with our group's regular events like Happy Hour, launching later in 2022
The Early Career group is looking for an organizer for a 6-month period to plan networking events and help conservation tech students from around the world connect! If you're interested in volunteering as group organizer, email ellie.warren@wildlabs.net with a brief summary of your early career conservation tech experience so far, and with an idea for one event or activity you'd propose for the group. We hope to hear from you!
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I am an early career researcher who is interested in contributing to wildlife conservation.
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Bridging industries with 15+ years of cross-sector expertise specializing in user-centric technology and product strategy, UX research, UX/UI design, process optimization, and end-to-end agile product development moving from ideation to iteration.
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Lead Estuary Science Coordinator at the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary and Masters Student at Rutgers University in the Department of Ecology and Evolution. Using bioacoustics in tidal marsh ecosystems for restoration and conservation.
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I love to help out
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| Hello WILDLABS Community, Ocean Science Analytics recently launched an ocean-focused course for those interested in learning how to... |
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Geospatial, Conservation Tech Training and Education, Early Career, Earth Observation 101 Community | 5 days 23 hours ago | |
| Hi Aleksandra,Welcome! I'm also from a technical background (software development, data engineering, and data science) and making the shift into conservation tech. Like you, I don... |
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Early Career | 1 month 2 weeks ago | |
| Thanks Fadhilla! I met with your colleague Henrick at the booth. :-) |
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| p.s. https://environmentjob.co.uk/jobs has internships searchable for any location, not just UK. |
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Geospatial, Early Career, Marine Conservation | 2 months 2 weeks ago | |
| Hi Ethan, It's indeed a competitive area. My advice for you (and anybody else seeking a PhD supervisor)...Do background research on each individual potential supervisor and always... |
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| Hi Frida!As a recent graduate gearing up for grad school applications, I've also been looking into conservation tech programs. As @carlybatist already mentioned, there's an... |
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Early Career, Conservation Tech Training and Education | 2 months 3 weeks ago | |
| My name is Frank Short and I am a PhD Candidate at Boston University in Biological Anthropology. I am currently doing fieldwork in Indonesia using machine-learning powered passive... |
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| Hi Karinna, That seems that a great plan and lots of nice skills to bring in!Don't hesitate to search the member directory or the organisations inventory to find suitable... |
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| Hi @ziggy_4 , I agree with those who commented before, there are a lot of ways to get into the field. I went down the Biology route and then learnt more via my PhD. ... |
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Hello and welcome to WILDLABS @loveness :)
What a great intro to what you are doing and interested in pursuing! I'd like to help direct you to our resources page, where you can check out multiple open career and academic opportunities from across your region that are posted regularly by the community. Find our Resources page linked here.
Which specific areas within conservation/conservation technology are you most interested in at the moment? We have over 32 specialised groups in our community you could explore here to help guide you as you go along your career journey :)
Best wishes!
23 April 2024 12:41pm
Hello Ms Esther👋
Thank you for taking your time to reply to me with such helpful response.
I'm interested in conservation technology such as camera traps, GIS and Remote sensing, tools like EarthRanger, wildlife tracking collars, Data collection apps. I've already joined the groups just after reading your response and I'll keep visit the Resources Page to find more opportunities.
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Welcome, Have you considered participating in any of the AI for Good challenges. I find it is good way to build a nice portfolio of work. Also contributing to existing open source ML projects such as megadetector or to upstream libraries such as PyTorch is good way to getting hired.
GitHub - alexvmt/awesome-data-and-ml-for-good: Collection of resources for data and ML for good and how to get involved.
Collection of resources for data and ML for good and how to get involved. - alexvmt/awesome-data-and-ml-for-good
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Thank you for the tip! I'll definitely consider contributing to open source projects and taking part in challenges :)
25 March 2024 5:22am
We could always use more contributors in open source projects. In most open source companies Red Hat, Anaconda, Red Hat and Mozilla, people often ended up getting hired largely due to their contributions on open source projects. These contributions were both technical such as writing computer code and non-technical such as writing documentation and translating tools in their local language.
Add Bio-accoustics support · Issue #441 · microsoft/CameraTraps · GitHub
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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."