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Bringing together many of our community's tech types like bioacoustics, biologging, drones, remote sensing, machine learning, and more, the Marine Conservation group is a meeting point to begin innovative collaborations and answer difficult questions.

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Updates on Mole-Rat Mystery Drone Project 

Sean Hill

10 June 2025 10:21am

THE RESULTS ARE IN!! Two months ago I inquired about information on the Cape Dune Mole Rat on Wildlabs (https://wildlabs.net/discussion/mole-rat-mystery-can-anyone-help). Thanks...

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Samantha Moore

14 August 2025 6:07am

want to join 2025 contest for humpback whale photos in Juneo Alaska of Kelp

 

 

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Anyone using InVEST?

Elsa Carla De Grandi

10 July 2025 1:31pm

InVEST 3.16.0 has been release! with a new Plugin feature. From the InVEST Workbench users can install a 3rd party InVEST-like model which can be...

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Elsa Carla De Grandi

5 August 2025 7:27pm

If you're curious about InVEST I just created a page in "The Inventory" (see link on this page) with some resources and just wanted to hlighlight some potentially interesting models that are worth having a look at!

  • Habitat Quality: this model uses habitat quality and rarity as proxies to represent the biodiversity of a landscape, estimating the extent of habitat and vegetation types across a landscape, and their state of degradation.
  • Habitat Risk Assessment: this model evaluates risks posed to coastal and marine habitats in terms of exposure to human activities and the habitat-specific consequence of that exposure for delivery of ecosystem services.

  • Crop Pollination: this model focuses on wild pollinators providing an ecosystem service. The model estimates insect pollinator nest sites, floral resources, and flight ranges to derive an index of pollinator abundance on each cell on a landscape. If desired, the model can creates an index of the value of these pollinators to agricultural production, and attributes this value back to source cells.

     

Liz Ferguson

8 August 2025 2:23pm

Hi Elsa, 

We have used InVEST for a pollinator project we supported (the crop pollination model - details here), and looking to using it more for marine and coastal applications so really appreciate the details you shared here! 

Cheers, 

Liz

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Jupyter Notebook: Aquatic Computer Vision

Brett Smith

25 January 2024 5:50am

Dive Into Underwater Computer Vision Exploration OceanLabs Seychelles is excited to share a Jupyter notebook tailored for those intrigued by the...

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Brett Smith

27 January 2024 4:07am

This definitely seems like the community to do it. I was looking at the thread about wolf detection and it seems like people here are no strangers to image classification. A little overwhelming to be quite honest 😂

While it would be incredible to have a powerful model that was capable of auto-classifying everything right away and storing all the detected creatures & correlated sensor data straight into a database - I wonder if in remote cases where power (and therefore cpu bandwidth), data storage, and network connectivity is at a premium if it would be more valuable to just be able to highlight moments of interest for lab analysis later? OR if you do you have cellular connection, you could download just those moments of interest and not hours and hours of footage? 

Arky

27 January 2024 6:11am

Am working on similar AI challenge at the moment. Hoping to translate my workflow to wolves in future if needed. 

We all are little overstretched but it there is no pressing deadlines, it should be possible to explore building efficient model for object detection and looking at suitable hardware for running these model on the edge. 

 

 

Alfred Z. Agarap

28 July 2025 1:20pm

Wow this is amazing! This is how we integrate Biology and Information Technology. 

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Water Quality Remote Sensing Lead

Alex Rood

10 July 2025 7:40pm

Are you interested in building one of the world’s first reliable satellite imagery models for water quality prediction? Are you a machine learning or remote sensing engineer who loves applying hard technical skills to...

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🌊 FathomVerse mobile game debuts new features to help gamers participate in ocean exploration

Lilli Wakinekona Carlsen

27 March 2025 1:20am

The ocean is vast, mysterious, and full of charismatic critters that look like they belong in a sci-fi movie. But unlike outer space, you don’t need a rocket to explore it—just a...

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I WANT TO TELL YOUR STORY

Barny Dillarstone

29 June 2025 10:22am

I create ocean exploration and marine life content on YouTube, whether it be recording nautilus on BRUVs, swimming with endangered bowmouth guitarfish, documenting reef...

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Gulf of America Dead Zone Restoration

Chad Richardson

9 June 2025 9:49pm

Hello all,I’ve recently become aware of the Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone, a 6,500-square-mile hypoxic area caused by agricultural runoff from 32...

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Chad Richardson

21 June 2025 6:22am

Hi WILDLABS Community! I have started mapping the project for the Gulf of America Dead Zone and here are some photos of the progress. 

 

In the last picture, I have included WILDLABS entities at random and I will be mapping them to the industry collaborators we are seeking. 

 

I hope to have any interested parties please reach out and if you'd like to contribute your technology, wisdom, or just follow along, I appreciate it! Thank you

 

 

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Smart Drone to Tag Whales Project

Leandro Buss Becker

8 June 2025 12:19pm

Hi all,Let me please introduce our project named Smart Drone to Tag Whales, awarded in WILDLABS AWARDS 2024.Our research team (@machadoams, @anakfleck, @...

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Frants Jensen

14 June 2025 12:19pm

I would love to hear updates on this if you have a mailing list or list of intersted parties!

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Feedback needed for new Tech Concepts

Gina van der Meijden

3 June 2025 12:43pm

Hi, My name is Gina. I'm currently working on my Bachelor's Thesis and would like some feedback on some concepts I have worked out. The concepts involve new technology for...

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Shannon Rankin

11 June 2025 10:44pm

Gina-  Sounds like an interesting thesis topic! I work with bioacoustics in offshore waters and I'd be happy to have a chat and provide feedback-- feel free to message me via Wildlabs. 

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Internship advice

Jody

26 May 2025 11:11am

Hi everyone! I would really appreciate some advice on an internship possibility that I could follow, as part of my Master's program in GIS. It would be a position with...

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Vance Russell

29 May 2025 10:47am

Hi Jody,

Thanks for posting this question. Here are a couple of recommendations and ideas:

  • Pay. They should be paying you, not the other way around. I wouldn't recommend any internship that requires a fee to participate. You possess highly relevant and valuable technical skills, and organizations or businesses should compensate you accordingly, even as a student. I suggest looking elsewhere for organizations that need talented individuals to help solve problems for them.
  • Sources. Jobsingis has been listing internships lately, as have several UN agencies on UN jobs. Go to https://www.jobingis.com. You could also ask folks directly here or on other listservs such as SCGIS. LinkedIn would be another place to search for or ask about potential internships.

Happy to repost anything on Linkedin for you and good luck!

Vance

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Dual-/Multi-Use Technology Strategies

Deepak Sathyanarayan

1 April 2025 11:46pm

Hi Everyone, I am new to the WildLabs community and relatively new to conservation technology. I have been working in this space since 2018 (marine and coral focused with NOAA),...

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Deepak Sathyanarayan

15 April 2025 6:17pm

That is a great point and the current international trade climate has been making supply chain even more difficult. This also deeply affects US companies given much of the US goods manufacturing and assembly happening in China. Over the last few years, I have been seeing US hardware companies (e.g. drone platform and component OEMs) sourcing their goods from India, Turkey, Canada, and more recently in African and South American nations. Because of the last 3-to-5 years of increasingly restrictive and costly international hardware trade, there has been a emergence of specialized component manufacturers internationally. For European companies interested in providing hardware services to the US, I would suggest diversifying the supply chain beyond China. Given the current climate and trends, that added supply chain resilience may be a good idea, regardless of work with the US.

Kim Hendrikse

15 April 2025 7:36pm

This is more than the supply chain though. The point was the company itself cannot use any tech for anything from the 5x companies. So in my case my ISP is incompatible. Essentially I see the only companies making that kind of sacrifice are ones that want to devote themselves to defence only.


Of course. That’s US defense as a customer. European defence is fully on the table.


It’s just sad that it’s not restricted to defence. US government wildlife organisations cannot buy European tech unless that European company was pure in their eyes.

Deepak Sathyanarayan

15 April 2025 8:37pm

True, the US ecosystem is a challenging space right now, for basically all sectors. 

We should not let the US chaos prevent us from engaging with opportunities in other nations' multi-use markets. A company's ability and journey to tap into other markets is very unique to them (product, team, finances, infrastructure, agility), and some simply cannot adapt. There is no one size fits all (or even most) solution when it comes to multi-use strategies. It is important that  we are systematic about evaluating the cost to adapt our product-service to a different market, and the value of new opportunities in that new market, without losing track of underlying conservation and social good needs.

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Nature Tech for Biodiversity Sector Map launched!

Carly Batist and 1 more

1 April 2025 1:41pm

Conservation International is proud to announce the launch of the Nature Tech for Biodiversity Sector Map, developed in partnership with the Nature Tech Collective! 

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Frank van der Most

4 April 2025 1:57pm

Thanks for sharing @carlybatist  and @aliburchard !About the first point, lack of data integration and interpretation will be a bottleneck, if not death blow to the whole...
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