Catch up with The Variety Hour: June 2024

Event / 26 Jun 2024

Catch up with The Variety Hour: June 2024

This month we hear about Move BON, a new initiative to mobilize animal tracking data in support of national and global scale conservation goals, a multi-sensor bee monitoring system, thermal imaging applications in conservation, and an effort to build an AI-assisted evidence synthesis pipeline using LLMs, with the ultimate goal of building a living evidence database that is able to keep up the the rapidly growing scientific literature.

Online Event
26 Jun 2024 - this event is in the past.
4:00 pm ~ 5:00 pm Europe/London
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You’re invited to the WILDLABS Variety Hour, our monthly community event connecting you to the exciting projects, research, and ideas that are happening in conservation tech right now.

You never know what you’ll find and who you’ll meet at our Variety Hour, and that’s part of the fun! You might catch speed talks from community members working around the world, learn from a leading conservation tech expert, discover a new tool, test your wildlife trivia skills, find a great opportunity - maybe you’ll even do all of the above.

The WILDLABS Variety Hour isn’t a show, or a lecture, or a workshop. It's an engaging, fun, and interactive gathering, giving you a welcoming space to share your own projects and resources, ask and answer questions, have insightful conversations, meet collaborators, make friends, and get to know the conservation tech community in a new way.

Great ideas and discussions are sparked when people who share a passion for conservation tech unite. When you come along to the Variety Hour, you’re joining a space full of people who care about conservation tech just like you; when you leave the Variety Hour, we hope you’ll take away fresh inspiration and the knowledge that you belong to a global community who are making an impact in our field all around the world.

The Variety Hour: June 2024

This month, we have three speed talks from Lacey Hughey, Shawn Jepson, and Patrick Chwalek, followed by a longer talk from Sam Reynolds and Alec Christie.

Lacey Hughey will kick off June's Variety Hour, sharing a collaborative effort between Smithsonian, NASA JPL, WILDLABS and others to build a new Biodiversity Observation Network (BON) to mobilize animal movement data in support of conservation policy at national and global scales. FLIR's Shawn Jepson will answer all your questions about thermal imaging, exploring how this technology has been used in conservation and what could you do with it in your work. Patrick Chwalek will introduce BuzzCam, a system integrating acoustic and other environmental sensors to provide a nuanced understanding of native and invasive bee populations. Finally, Sam Reynolds and Alec Christie will talk about LLMs in conservation, and share a project Conservation Evidence has begun to build an AI-assisted evidence synthesis pipeline using LLMs primarily to make the process of evidence synthesis more efficient as a workflow (from finding and classifying relevant scientific studies testing conservation actions, to tagging key information to speed up the writing of evidence summaries).

Sound fun? We'll see you there!

Agenda

Patrick Chwalek (@pchwalek ) | BuzzCam: Using a multi-modal acoustic monitoring system for bee conservation
Lacey Hughey (@lhughey) | Introducing the Move BON initiative
Shawn Jepson (@montanamud) | Thermal imaging in conservation: Use your imagination!
Intermission | The WILDLABS Quiz with Vanesa Reyes & Alex Rood
Sam Reynolds (@Dr_Sam_Reynolds ) & Alec Christie (@alecchristie888) | Building an AI-Assisted evidence synthesis pipeline using LLMs

Past Recordings

Can't wait for this Variety Hour? Why not check out our past events! You can find all of the on our YouTube Channel.

April 24 | Featuring talks from @Annacq on bridging biodiversity and business, @BrunaTeixeira on using acoustic indexes as an indicator of anthropogenic pressure, @kklibra on mitigating human-wildlife conflict & illegal trade through IT solutionsm, and (@capreolus on bridging classical biodiversity monitoring with emerging bioacoustics and AI
Variety Hour March | This month we're talking about making AI more accessible with Pytorch, new developments from WildMe and TagRanger, and working with geospatial data with Fauna & Flora.
Variety Hour October | This month to hear about a low-cost design for an aquatic stereo camera, a cost-effective design for nocturnal, infrared video recording, The Inventory, the dynamic, wiki-inspired platform we've been building for conservation tech, and a whirlwind update of google's work on AI for nature.

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Event / 26 Jun 2024