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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PhD fellow using deep learning to investigate marine fish acoustic signals and social behaviour.
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As a fresh electrical engineer, I am passionate about leveraging technology for biodiversity monitoring, logging, and poaching detection in tropical regions.
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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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SMART Global Congress 2024: A quick summary
Adrien Pajot
SMART Global Congress, the first global gathering of conservation professionals using SMART, was held in Windhoek, Namibia from March 10-13. Here is a snapshot of what we learned!
19 March 2024
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The Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (SNZCBI) is seeking two postdoctoral fellows to engage more directly with identifying conservation metrics for vertebrate communities and populations.
14 March 2024
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The Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior at its sites in Constance and Radolfzell offers an international, interdisciplinary, and collaborative environment that opens up unique research opportunities. The goal of our...
13 March 2024
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Hussey Labs seeks a senior post-doctoral researcher/senior research associate for movement ecology of Greenland halibut in the context of fisheries management across Baffin Bay-Davis Strait, Eastern Canadian Arctic.
13 March 2024
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Texas A&M is seeking applicants for a fully funded Ph.D. assistantship to begin a long-term study on collared peccary (also known as javelina) ecology in southern Texas.
13 March 2024
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Conservation Science Fellow (Giraffe Conservation Foundation)
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Giraffe Conservation Foundation is seeking a Conservation Science Fellow
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The Ecological Acoustics and Behavior Lab at the University of New Hampshire seeks a PhD student to join our lab to investigate how forest habitat affects moose occupancy and soundscape in northern New Hampshire
13 February 2024
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Early career mammalogist funding Opportunity
Owino Otieno Raymond
The American Society for Mammalogist has multiple categories of funding to support early career conservationist doing research on mammals. Currently, the African Research Fellowship award is open. The awards is mostly...
12 February 2024
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The Wildlife Restoration Foundation is hiring a Conservation Technology Intern
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PhD Opportunity - Exploring plants’ sensing capability with vibroacoustics
University of Southampton
Applications open for a PhD position in plant vibroacoustics at the University of Southampton
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Two year postdoc - Machine Learning & Bioacoustics
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Two years in Cape Town, South Africa. Yearly visits to Rwanda. If you love to code, and all things Python/deep learning/tech stuff/ then you'll have an awesome time!
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Jamii Tech Program 2024, Tanzania
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Applications for the Jamii Tech Program from the Twende Social Innovation Centre to Design for Socio-Economic Change in Tanzania are Now Open!
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| Hi Alex,Thank you for your reply. I've used Kaggle before but I've never heard of the others.I'm hoping to start volunteering at my local zoo soon as well so I'll see if there is... |
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Early Career | 3 months 3 weeks ago | |
| Hi Colleen,Thank you for sharing this exciting opportunity. I am Lucie, International Development Manager of Natural Solutions. We are a company at the intersection of... |
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Citizen Science, Early Career, Community Base | 3 months 3 weeks ago | |
| This is super helpful. Thank you for sharing! |
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Early Career | 3 months 4 weeks ago | |
| Hi Simon,We (Reneco International Wildlife Consultants) have an ongoing collaboration with a local University (Abu Dhabi, UAE) for developing AI tools (cameratrap/drone... |
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Acoustics, AI for Conservation, Animal Movement, Camera Traps, Citizen Science, Connectivity, Drones, Early Career, eDNA & Genomics, Marine Conservation, Protected Area Management Tools, Sensors | 4 months 1 week ago | |
| Hi Mark, thanks for responding. I think you've identified one of the most difficult parts of research climbing: maintaining your climbing skills and knowledge between field... |
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Community Base, Camera Traps, Conservation Tech Training and Education, Early Career | 4 months 1 week ago | |
| I am thrilled to share that I have completed the six-month Women in Conservation Technology program. I am Sarah Mshanga, and I hold a... |
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Acoustics, Conservation Tech Training and Education, Community Base, Early Career, East Africa Community | 4 months 3 weeks ago | |
| Super interesting work! Maybe one day you will also be able to have a career as a science fiction writer. Lot of interesting outcomes can come of this. ❤️ |
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Acoustics, Data management and processing tools, Early Career | 5 months 3 weeks ago | |
| Hi everyone.Please help me understand how can monitoring and evaluation tools be designed and implemented to assess the effectiveness and... |
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Early Career, East Africa Community, Community Base, Conservation Tech Training and Education | 5 months 4 weeks ago | |
| Hi @Alejandro_Lopera ! Just wanted to share that I made a little discussion post on the topic of 'Finding a Software Job in Conservation': I know data science is different... |
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Early Career | 6 months 4 weeks ago | |
| Hi all! I wanted to open a discussion on a topic that I've been thinking about ever since I entered the job market-- how to get a... |
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Software Development, AI for Conservation, Early Career, Open Source Solutions | 6 months 4 weeks ago | |
| Hi Jared, thanks for the advice. It was quite helpful |
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Early Career | 7 months 1 week ago | |
| Hej Szilvia!What an interesting story, especially in light recent questions popping up on business models for nature conservation enterprises!So, how or where do you find... |
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Post Doctoral Research Assistant at ZSL
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Conservation Science Intern - Space for Giants, Nanyuki
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Job Opportunity - Wildlife Protection Solutions
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Fonseca Leadership Program
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Ecoacoustics
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JWO Research Grant: Biodiversity and Conservation
2 April 2024 2:45pm
Postdoc position in Herpetofaunal Ecology & Conservation
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Apply Now: Women in Conservation Technology Programme, Tanzania 2024
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AI for Conservation!
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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
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...
The Variety Hour: 2024 Lineup
22 March 2024 4:30pm
Introduction + Mentorship/Research Partnership
20 March 2024 1:41am
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Me and @Hubertszcz are working on biodiversity monitoring for habitat restoration on the Azuero penninsula in August. I don't have any like paid research opportunities i know of myself, but if you find yourself in panama, im sure they can use help!
22 March 2024 2:28pm
I actually will be in Panama for an internship during June-July in the Azuero peninsula!! What organization are you both involved in?
Empowering women, protecting nature: Insights from WiCT 2023
22 March 2024 7:59am
SMART Global Congress 2024: A quick summary
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Fundraising Workshop: Caribbean Region
18 March 2024 9:45am
2 Postdoctoral Conservation Ecologist Positions at Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (SNZCBI)
14 March 2024 7:18pm
PhD Opening: Revealing the Dynamics of Soaring Environments Through GPS and Drones
13 March 2024 2:11pm
Senior Post-doctoral Researcher/Senior Research Associate Opportunity: Movement ecology of Greenland halibut
13 March 2024 2:00pm
Ph.D. Assistantship: Collared Peccary Population and Spatial Ecology in Southern Texas
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Now for Wildlife
12 March 2024 2:36pm
Introduction and Potential Networking
6 March 2024 7:36pm
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Hi Sienna, I'm in the Worcester area and always keep an eye on positions nearby for my students. I recommend adding Mass Audubon to your list (currently searching for a land conservation fellow). Also, many towns search for conservation agents/administrators to assist their conservation commission. Museum of Science, the Boston Aquarium, as well as many smaller science museums / zoos (e.g., Ecotarium in Worcester), are frequently hiring for both full-time and temporary positions. Feel free to contact me in private!
Conservation Science Fellow (Giraffe Conservation Foundation)
4 March 2024 11:18am
Funded PhD Opportunity: Moose Acoustics at the University of New Hampshire
13 February 2024 1:21pm
Early career mammalogist funding Opportunity
12 February 2024 8:57pm
Conservation Technology Intern - The Wildlife Restoration Foundation
8 February 2024 7:52pm
PhD Opportunity - Exploring plants’ sensing capability with vibroacoustics
8 February 2024 5:35pm
Southern African Wildlife Management Association Conference 2024
6 February 2024 12:20pm
Project Planning for Wildlife Conservation
30 January 2024 3:13pm
Two year postdoc - Machine Learning & Bioacoustics
16 January 2024 7:49am
Free Spatial Analysis Course: Going Places with Spatial Analysis
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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