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 software engineer with experience in bioinformatics, robotics, and machine learning alongside a never-ending penchant to use my skills for good. Looking for opportunities in conservation tech to apply my skills where most needed :)
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PhD student in animal biology working on AI for wildlife conservation

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- @malikmorg
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Software Developer
Interested in all things technology, system design, and hardware, especially in the spaces of conservation, exploration, and the environment.
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I am a biologist who is currently studying for a master's degree in Natural Resources and Environmental Management Sciences, IPB University. In terms of biology, I have passionated in community development and wildlife conservation.
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- @mariaptoro
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Biologist from Colombia passionate about behavioral and evolutionary ecology, specializing in amphibians. My research explores animal communication and how environmental factors shape behavior and adaptation.
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Wildlife Protection Solutions (WPS)
Software Engineer in Conservation Tech



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- @eleanorhorvath
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Water Daughter
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AI and Electronic Engineer interested in insect counting and plant-pollinator interactions. UK based!
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Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN)
I'm a Biologist and currently a master's student. My research focuses on understanding how birds respond to a restoration experiment in a Seasonally Dry Tropical Forest exclusive to Brazil through bioacoustics.
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- @APooran
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- @kristian.cuervo
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Applied Mathematics student in Denmark, interested in applications of mathematics to ecology and nature conservation. Currently interested in developing sensors for perimeter detection in wildlife conservations in Africa.
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- @MorganeLabadie
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I'm an ecology researcher with extensive experience of fieldwork and project management in international contexts. I specialise in wildlife, zoonotic diseases, data collection and analysis using mainly non-invasive techniques (acoustic, camera traps, etc.) and invasive techniques
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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
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
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
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
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
Giraffe Conservation Foundation is seeking a Conservation Science Fellow
4 March 2024
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
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
The Wildlife Restoration Foundation is hiring a Conservation Technology Intern
8 February 2024
Applications open for a PhD position in plant vibroacoustics at the University of Southampton
8 February 2024
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!
16 January 2024
Applications for the Jamii Tech Program from the Twende Social Innovation Centre to Design for Socio-Economic Change in Tanzania are Now Open!
10 January 2024
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I am a writer, artist and creative technologist that has worked on the intersection of social issues, AI and ecology for about 10+ years.... |
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Dear all Wildlab-ers If you are a biologist, scientist, researcher or conservationist, please help us fill out the survey or... |
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Early Career | 5 years 1 month ago | |
Hi, this is Upayan Chatterjee from India. I am currently a student of technology and wish to get into conservation post my graduation.... |
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Early Career | 5 years 1 month ago | |
Hi, this is Upayan Chatterjee from India I have always felt impartial storytelling goes a long way in creating awareness regarding... |
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Early Career | 5 years 1 month ago | |
Hello everyone! My name is Kiana Lawton and I am a junior study biology at Brigham Young University. I am passionate about conservation... |
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Early Career | 5 years 4 months ago | |
Hello everyone! My name is Kiana Lawton and I am a junior study biology at Brigham Young University. I am passionate about conservation... |
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Early Career | 5 years 4 months ago | |
@Michiko Thanks a lot for the motivation and guidance. I am looking for a job in this sector for quite sometime but have been unable to find one. Since one must keep... |
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Early Career | 5 years 6 months ago | |
Caracal Caracal is a cloud-based data integration & analysis platform for protected areas. We are looking for creative graphic designers and frontend developers... |
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Early Career | 5 years 11 months ago | |
Hi Data Science community! This listing of online data science courses might be of interest. Regards, John |
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Early Career | 7 years 9 months ago |
Jamii Tech Program 2024, Tanzania
10 January 2024 11:12am
Presentation opportunity: Text analysis for conservation (NACCB 2024)
8 January 2024 4:05pm
Looking for a Supervisor/Research Group - ML-driven Marine Biomonitoring
3 January 2024 2:05pm
7 January 2024 6:06pm
Thanks Aude, very useful. Will reach out to them!
Project support officer - Conservation Tech
11 December 2023 10:24pm
Data Viz Inspo for the Holidays
11 December 2023 8:42pm
Mechatronics Engineer in Wildlife Conservation
6 December 2023 8:17pm
PhD Position- Nottingham Trent University UK
1 December 2023 7:13am
Feeding the Curiosity: A Closer Lookat Acacia xanthophloea's Shifting Defenses
28 November 2023 2:26pm
2 December 2023 9:16am
Kinship Conservation Fellows
NSERC-CREATE Graduate Programs
27 November 2023 10:36am
Freshwater and Community Conservation Remote Externship
27 November 2023 8:31am
AWMS Conference 2023
WWF Education for Nature 2024 Fellowships and Grants Info Session
21 November 2023 2:40pm
WWF's Education for Nature Fellowships and Grants are now open
21 November 2023 2:37pm
Climate Storytelling from the Global South
26 October 2023 11:21am
Entomological Research Specialist for Automated Insect Monitoring
25 October 2023 7:21pm
How to kickstart a conservation tech career, when you lack a formal biology education?
19 September 2023 2:26pm
18 October 2023 12:54pm
Thanks for your reply! I am currently based in Spain but looking for opportunities at an international level. Primarily in a European context, but I am open to every option :) Any suggestion would be highly appreciated!
18 October 2023 12:54pm
Thank you! I will check it out
22 October 2023 4:53pm
I unfortunately don't have many unique insights for Europe. I'm North America based. We have companies out here like Aerium Analytics that seem like they'd fit your skill set. Perhaps there are some European equivalents.
PhD Opportunity - Exploring synergies between statistical ecology and statistical genomics
20 October 2023 12:56pm
PhD Opportunity: YELLOWHAMMER - Individual acoustic monitoring to study song culture evolutionwithin and between dialect areas
20 October 2023 12:54pm
PhD Opportunity - Distance sampling with milder assumptions
20 October 2023 12:53pm
PhD Opportunity: Distributed sound source localisation and separation for wireless microphone networks consisting of two-microphone nodes
20 October 2023 12:47pm
PhD Opportunity - Causal inference and trial emulation for ecological observational data
20 October 2023 12:45pm
PhD Opportunity: 'FLOATERS' position at Bioacoustic AI Doctoral Network
20 October 2023 12:36pm
PhD Opportunity - Movement through space and time, realistic movement for species abundance methods
20 October 2023 12:33pm
Monitoring and Evaluation for Wildlife Conservation
18 October 2023 2:22pm
4 August 2024 4:38pm
You can't scale your nature venture? You can't find a job in the nature field? Here is my solution.
4 October 2023 10:52am
Gordon Research Seminar: Predator-Prey Interactions
28 September 2023 3:56pm
Automated monitoring of bumble bee colonies as landscape quality indicators
28 September 2023 1:16pm
GIS & Data Science Specialist, Connected Conservation Foundation
27 September 2023 1:28pm
5 January 2024 11:07am
Hi Filippo,
Nice to read your message. Have you thought of contacting anyone in the Bioscience department at UCL? In our group "the People and Nature Lab", a few PhD students (Ben and Jason) are working on ML methods for coral reef monitoring. Might be interesting to reach out to them. List of People at CBER.
Best, Aude