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Just starting your conservation tech career path? Our Early Career group is the best place to network, chat about your master's projects, and seek advice from your peers and those who have been down this path before! Join now to get to know community members and students from around the world!

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University & Grad School Resources

Ellie Warren

5 November 2020 11:04pm

Hi Early Career comm, Ellie here! With so many new opportunities popping up these days to earn degrees in conservation tech-related fields, I thought it'd be worthwhile to...

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Ellie Warren

12 November 2020 11:01pm

Hi all,

Dropping in with another great program! Many of you have probably heard of this one already: it's the Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation! They have courses and training options for all education stages, including for high school students who are thinking about following a conservation career path. 

The graduate and professional short courses also have a strong conservation tech focus, with training options in GIS, camera trapping, and statistics, specifically. Definitely worth having a look! You can find their courses here.

-Ellie

Ellie Warren

18 November 2020 8:20pm

Hi again,

WILDLABS member Meredith Palmer shared this great course module for undergrads, based around Snapshot Serengeti camera trap data! This materials are useful for professors who are looking for resources for online biology courses, but the resources may also be useful and interesting for those of you who are exploring conservation tech career options and want to learn more about camera trap studies.

We've been hard at work to create distance-learning material based on our #citizenscience #cameratrap projects to teach concepts in #ecology and #conservation. Excited to announce that our 5-week online undergrad module is now available on @CourseSource! https://t.co/5k1dQ8WVJe pic.twitter.com/Huf1MB9ZDG

— Meredith S. Palmer, Ph.D. (@songofdodo) November 18, 2020
-Ellie
Ellie Warren

29 January 2021 11:17pm

Those of you who are interested in bioacoustics will want to check out this Master's course!

Looking for a master degree in #bioacoustics? Already doing your PhD & wanting to spend 4 months studying #bioacoustics? Look at MoBi, a new Master's course in Bioacoustics, taught in English by over 30 expert tutors from around the world. https://t.co/SgoFRQGpZA
Please RT!

— Nicolas Mathevon (@MathevonNicolas) January 29, 2021
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BIPOC mentors/mentees + Scholarship Opportunity!

Ellie Warren

16 September 2020 8:31pm

Hi Wildlabbers, Our friends from Black Mammalogists Week are creating a network of mentors and mentees for Black and underrepresented groups working in conservation and science...

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Ellie Warren

10 November 2020 6:27pm

Hey Wildlabbers,

Wanted to update with another opportunity from the Black Mammalogists Week organizers!

They're working on a BIPOC scholarship with the funds raised during Black Mammalogists Week, and they'd like to hear about how $1500 would impact your research and early career development! Details here:

Hey y'all this is still happening!

Are you BIPOC? Interested in mammals/wildlife?

How would *$1500* change your research or professional development? DM us for how to contribute a 30-sec vid to our campaign for the BIPOC scholarship endowment. RT!https://t.co/Rx16dyk6mZ

— Black Mammalogists (@BlkMammalogists) November 10, 2020
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Ways of developing skills and knowledge

Harry Horsley

15 April 2020 7:48pm

Hi all, I'm new to the community here and, coming from an engineering background, I am fairly new to conservation as well. At the moment I'm trying to get...

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mariha

23 October 2020 5:00pm

Hey guys,

please count me in. I am software engineer and would love to get some well structured knowledge about conservation, environment, ecology, climate change, biodiversity loss and alike. I'll be more than happy to create learning group with you.

N P

23 October 2020 7:26pm

Outstanding! I've created a Slack page: https://wildlabs-learners.slack.com/. Please message me your e-mail address to be added. From there, we can discuss who wants to learn what and then create subchannels if needed.

Anne Dangerfield

23 October 2020 9:31pm

Hi everyone,

I've taken several courses from the Edx platform and a few from Nat Geo.

I highly recommend Edx courses. They cover material with enough detail that I've always learned something but never been overwhelmed. Many of them provide additional material for more in-depth reading.

I can't speak to any of the other platforms on the list, but I intend to check them out.

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Survey: Applying tech to conservation

nhd310

17 April 2020 4:30pm

Dear all Wildlab-ers  If you are a biologist, scientist, researcher or conservationist, please help us fill out the survey or connect us to both institutions that you know...

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SWITCHING TO CONSERVATION

Upayan_Chatterjee

14 April 2020 8:53pm

Hi, this is Upayan Chatterjee from India. I am currently a student of technology and wish to get into conservation post my graduation. The passion in the field has grown over...

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Looking for an Internship

Kiana Lawton

21 January 2020 4:25am

Hello everyone! My name is Kiana Lawton and I am a junior study biology at Brigham Young University. I am passionate about conservation and caring for animals, especially...

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Where to Look for Conservation Jobs (running list)

Talia Speaker

2 September 2019 6:47pm

A common challenge for early career conservationists is not knowing where to look for opportunities in our highly interdisciplinary field. Dr. Stephanie Schuttler...

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7 November 2019 12:18am

I would suggest focusing on honing a skillset that would make you a killer applicant. Wildlife is a hard field to get into, so instead of targeting a species of interest, it would be helpful to jump on any opportunity to get more experience. Even if it is not directly related to what you want to do. Try picking up some volunteer work or internships to get your foot in the door and see if it is still what you would like to do too!

7 November 2019 12:20am

But honestly, there are conservation organizations that would also benefit from the skillset of an engineer! Try looking into different organizations that interest you and see where your skills may fit in with that. Honestly, there situtations where conservation groups depend on engineers to help preserve a species or protect a habitat. You can look into wildlife parks, national parks, wildlife refuges, etc to see how your skills fit in there... unless you want to completely leave engineering behind of course.

Somak Sengupta

7 November 2019 7:43pm

@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 running the house, I am working in Jacobs as a design engineer for the last 2 years.

I will try and try and try. But if u do find something do let us all eager eco-concerned Indian engineers know.

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Internship and Early Career Opportunities 2019

Stephanie O'Donnell

3 May 2019 4:33pm

Hi ECG!  This thread is a place to share any relevant #tech4wildlife internship or project (e.g. honours/masters/phd opportunities) you hear about that might be of...

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Stephanie O'Donnell

3 May 2019 4:37pm

WildCRU Camera Trap Internships
WildCRU’s wide-spread and long-term camera trapping study spans South East Asia to West Africa to Scotland. Based at Tubney House, we are looking for early career undergraduate or masters students to work closely with our camera trapping co-ordinator to identify species and tag camera trap images using WildCRU’s camera trapping protocol. You will learn a variety of skills, attend WildCRU’s camera trapping workshop and have the opportunity to network with WildCRU’s international community.

Interns will be appointed for 3 month, usually on a part time basis, at £9 per hour, ideally starting 10th June. To apply, please send us a CV (no longer than 2 pages) and a covering letter detailing your experience to dawn.burnham@zoo.ox.ac.uk and amy.fitzmaurice@lmh.ox.ac.uk by 24th May 2019.

More info: https://www.wildcru.org/opportunities/

Casey Slaught

24 May 2019 11:41am

Caracal

Caracal is a cloud-based data integration & analysis platform for protected areas. We are looking for creative graphic designers and frontend developers who are willing to contribute remotely to our young yet exciting conservation technology project. We primarily need help developing intuitive map icons for categorizing incidents and species, as well as building frontend components for our web app.

This project is ongoing and those interested are encouraged to email us at contact@caracal.cloud or by completing this form:

https://forms.gle/e2TA24scf5Ceq7LK6

 

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