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'm a PhD student at UW working with the Smithsonian and Center for One Health Research. I develop models to predict and explain zoonotic disease patterns, with a strong emphasis on how these diseases impact wildlife populations and communities sharing the same landscape.
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I am an early career researcher who is interested in contributing to wildlife conservation.
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Sustainability and Computer Vision
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University of Florida (UF)
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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Leads Technology for Conservation programme at The Habitats Trust
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Natural Solutions
As an agronomist engineer, I specialized in environmental management and resource conservation. 🌍 Interested in developing solutions for biodiversity conservation #indicators #monitoring
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Rutgers University
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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Conservation tech enthusiast
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I love to help out
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Masters student working on hazel dormouse acoustics
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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.
28 May 2024
Article
Are you passionate about marine wildlife conservation? Excited to network and collaborate with fellow enthusiasts? Join us in launching the Coastal and Marine Wildlife Working Group within The Wildlife Society!
23 May 2024
Funding
Save Our Seas, small grant call (±$5K)
Frank van der Most
Save Our Seas (SOS) opened a call for small grants for 'original and innovative start-up projects' concerning marine chondrichthyan species (sharks, rays, skates, sawfishes and chimaeras). Projects can be in research,...
19 May 2024
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Share Your Work in a Conservation Technology Video
Robin Marti Sarasa
Do you have photos and videos of your conservation tech work? We want to include them in a conservation technology showcase video
17 May 2024
Funding
300 funding and finance opportunities in free database
Frank van der Most
The Biodiversity Finance Initiative ( BIOFIN, a UNDP initiative ) launched a database with over 330 public and private funding opportunities.
4 May 2024
Funding
Travel grants for insect monitoring an AI
Tom August
€2,000 travel grants are available for researchers interested in insect monitoring using automated cameras and computer vision
3 May 2024
Careers
The North Carolina Zoo seeks a dynamic, motivated and progressive individual to serve as the Associate Curator of International Conservation within the zoos’ Conservation, Education and Science (CES) program. The...
29 April 2024
Article
It has been an extraordinary year supporting and growing the regional East African Conservation Technology Community at WILDLABS. We've made great strides and unlocked exciting opportunities for our community as we...
29 April 2024
Careers
Ecologist Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Alex Rood
The incumbent will develop models and metrics that can be used to shape conservation policy using multiple data sources including camera traps, movement data and citizen science concerning the diversity and...
23 April 2024
Careers
Full-time 3 year postdoctoral fellowship in Escondido, CA
22 April 2024
Funding
Peoples Trust For Endangered Species
Henry Rees
PTES will be accepting new applications for Conservation Insight Grants in 2024. The deadline for applications is Sunday 25th August at 23.59 (UK time). Applications will be assessed at a meeting in mid-October and...
22 April 2024
Careers
Applications Open: 2024 GOSH Ambassador Program
Brianna Johns
Apply to the inaugural GOSH Ambassador Program by June 15!
18 April 2024
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Early Career, Emerging Tech | 2 years 7 months ago | |
| Hi David,I am happy to support if this opportunity is still open?You can reach me on Loretta.Andrade@gmail.comLinkedIn: Thanks,Loretta |
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Early Career | 2 years 8 months ago | |
| The title of that article is "File Not Found". That threw me off since I totally thought I hit a 404 and the article didn't exist anymore. It's super interesting though so don't... |
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Early Career | 3 years 1 month ago | |
| Hey all!I am Ayush, a core team member of my school's Robotics Club (Center For Innovation, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras). There... |
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Drones, Sensors, Wildlife Crime, Early Career | 3 years 1 month ago | |
| Hi Eric, Dropping in a reply we had over on Linkedin here. Annoyingly I can't do a snazzy embed of the comment - will fix that!Anton Baotic shared: I guess it depends on... |
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Acoustics, Early Career | 3 years 1 month ago | |
| Hello everyone! I am currently a senior undergraduate student working on landscape genetics research using RAD seq data and GIS data. The organism we've been studying... |
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Early Career | 3 years 2 months ago | |
| Job available at the University of Antwerp in the field of wireless / IoT / low power communication. The group works on a range of projects... |
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Early Career | 3 years 5 months ago | |
| Job description WPS seeks a game developer to work with our videography team and existing library of wildlife 360 video content to... |
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Early Career | 3 years 6 months ago | |
| Hi ! I am joy - based in London. I am a techie/hardware engineer /software engineer who became an entrepreneur. Over a period of 10... |
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Early Career | 3 years 9 months ago | |
| Thanks so much @skatewing It is impressive to notice that almost all are outside of EU, and my concern is the working rights to collaborate with US or UK organisations... |
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Early Career | 4 years 1 month ago | |
| Shoot me your e-mail! We're looking at starting a new course soon if there's enough interest. |
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Early Career | 4 years 1 month ago | |
| Hi, anyone interested in joining: send me a message with your e-mail! |
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Early Career | 4 years 5 months ago |
VIHAR-2024 deadline extension, June 30th (Interspeech satellite event)
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7 June 2024 8:29am
hi Alex!! I already posted the event, I just wanted to posted an update: the deadline was extended.
7 June 2024 1:45pm
Fantastic!!
€4,000 travel grants for insect monitoring an AI
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New WILDLABS Funding & Finance group
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Meet Our Cohort & Mentors: Women in Conservation Technology Programme, Tanzania 2024
WILDLABS Team
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30 May 2024 1:16pm
GENZ in STEM Episode 10: Conservation technology, the meaningful career you may have never heard of
28 May 2024 6:09pm
EP10:Conservation technology: …–GENZ in STEM – Apple Podcasts
What is conservation technology, and why might this be your perfect career?It is a green career incorporating AI, sensors, tech, the environment, and more. We a
🌊🐋 Join the Coastal and Marine Wildlife Working Group of The Wildlife Society! 🦈🐢
23 May 2024 10:53pm
Save Our Seas, small grant call (±$5K)
19 May 2024 8:05pm
Share Your Work in a Conservation Technology Video
17 May 2024 9:06pm
300 funding and finance opportunities in free database
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Travel grants for insect monitoring an AI
3 May 2024 5:20pm
Job Opening: Associate Curator of International Conservation at North Carolina Zoo
29 April 2024 9:17pm
A Year of Supporting East African Conservation Technology: Lessons on How You Can Amplify #Tech4Wildlife
29 April 2024 10:52am
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Ecologist Postdoctoral Research Fellow
23 April 2024 4:32pm
Introduction and Networking
22 April 2024 9:37am
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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.
Peoples Trust For Endangered Species
22 April 2024 2:57pm
EDGE Fellowship 2025-2027
16 April 2024 3:16pm
Starting a Conservation Technology Career with Vainess Laizer
16 April 2024 1:34pm
Applied hierarchical modelling (AHM) for species distribution and abundance
9 April 2024 7:22pm
Post Doctoral Research Assistant at ZSL
9 April 2024 7:03pm
Conservation Science Intern - Space for Giants, Nanyuki
9 April 2024 8:55am
Job Opportunity - Wildlife Protection Solutions
5 April 2024 9:22pm
Fonseca Leadership Program
3 April 2024 4:46pm
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Ecoacoustics
2 April 2024 2:49pm
JWO Research Grant: Biodiversity and Conservation
2 April 2024 2:45pm
Postdoc position in Herpetofaunal Ecology & Conservation
30 March 2024 5:57am
Apply Now: Women in Conservation Technology Programme, Tanzania 2024
WILDLABS Team
and 2 more
25 March 2024 11:10am
AI for Conservation!
4 March 2024 8:51pm
22 March 2024 12:29pm
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
22 March 2024 5:57pm
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
Please kindly add support for using pytorch wildlife platform for bio-acoustics to analyses audio recordings of insects, birds and animals including sounds that are inaudible to human ears. Having a single code base to analysis both opti...
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."