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Article / Community Base | Early Career + 2
It has been an extraordinary year supporting and growing the regional East African Conservation Technology Community at WILDLABS. We've made great strides and unlocked exciting opportunities for our community as we...
29 April 2024
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Hello and welcome to the WILDLABS community! With 6,000 members and counting, we want to get to know you a little better. In a couple of...
29 October 2015
Tap into our new and exciting community-focused conversation series! In this first season of InConversation, we're in East Africa with host Esther Githinji. Listen in as we chat one-on-one with your favourite...
30 April 2024
Conversations & Questions
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Thank you for elaborating, @evebohnett ! And for the heads ups! |
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Camera Traps, Drones | 4 hours 54 minutes ago | |
Great initiative!Just a short note: any position to distinguish garbage from real snares?Best!Lufer@Landfeelings |
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AI for Conservation, Drones, Emerging Tech, Human-Wildlife Conflict, Wildlife Crime | 7 hours ago | |
Hi folks! I'm Zoe, an ecologist at the intersection of SaaS, conservation, and community science. I'm actively seeking my next professional home where I can continue weaving... |
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Community Base | 10 hours 11 minutes ago | |
Hey Alex!Super interesting test run of the LEDs. While the power consumption may seem negligible, if you're running this instrument over >12 days, you'd get another day or two... |
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Acoustics | 2 days 7 hours ago | |
Undoubted things will quickly evolve from just "straight" ChatGPTn, BARD, ClaudeAI, etc "standard" models, to more specialized Retrieval Augmentation Generation (RAG) , where... |
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AI for Conservation, Emerging Tech | 2 days 9 hours ago | |
Hello!Long time, no update. @StephODonnell suggested I post here with my thesis and some reflections. ---------------------------------------------------------TL;DR... |
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Acoustics | 2 days 14 hours ago | |
Hi Thijs, the use of that inflatable device to scare off bears suggests that the location you are using it has significant power available.Is this a common situation for the... |
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AI for Conservation | 2 days 17 hours ago | |
I think I've landed on the Wildlife Acoustics Song Meter Mini Bat 2 for now, but I'm definitely interested to see how this cheaper tech progresses |
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Acoustics | 3 days 6 hours ago | |
This is so cool! I am 1000% going to see if they want to come talk about it at Variety Hou! |
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AI for Conservation, Citizen Science | 3 days 9 hours ago | |
Hi Courtney,I haven't read through all the Wildlife computer options but I have heard of people using Zinc Anode disks as a type of slowly degrading attachment point for tags. We... |
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Biologging, Marine Conservation | 3 days 10 hours ago | |
Hi Jesse,For a material to be acoustically transparent (in air), the speed of sound in the material times its density must match that of air. Realistically, any solid... |
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Acoustics, Biologging | 3 days 12 hours ago | |
@Andrew_Hill Amazing project and something I have been looking into as well. I do human-elephant conflict work in Asia mainly in Sri Lanka. I am using a series of Audiomoth to... |
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Acoustics | 3 days 13 hours ago |
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- @Greenpromise63
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My name is Chris Nwachukwu, I'm an environmental educator. I hail from Imo State, Nigeria. I'm passionate about environmental education and committed to promoting ocean literacy
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Wildlife Institute of India
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Harvard University
animal behavior postdoc interested in learning more about acoustic ecology and passive acoustic monitoring
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- @organicjo
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Program Strategist for the Conservation Dogs Collective and founder of Nose No Limit
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- @HeatherleeLeary
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Wildlife biologist specializing in wind and solar projects, artist/illustrator, and learning robotics.
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Lucie Gallegos
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As an agronomist engineer, I specialized in environmental management and resource conservation. 🌍 Interested in developing solutions for biodiversity conservation #indicators #monitoring
Joe Miller
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Director - UC Santa Cruz Fort Ord Natural Reserve
Joseph Russell
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I lead the Applied Biology & Bioinformatics team at MRIGlobal and I am the co-inventor and lead developer of the Mercury Lab platform, a first-in-class mobile genomics laboratory product for field-forward biology in austere locations.
Cortney Dean
- @CDean
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Grad Student, UW-Stout, Beaver habitat biodiversity research, process based restoration
Ryan Smith
- @theindieg
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Running a small electronic engineering company focussed on large scale sensor networks. We have interest in bioacoustics with bat and bird recorders, as well as a host of environmental sensors.
Patrick Chwalek
- @pchwalek
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I'm a PhD candidate in the Responsive Environments Group, working on electronic systems for human and wildlife monitoring.
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In 1987, sustainability was defined by the United Nations Brundtland Commission as “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”In 1987,...
7 May 2024
Save the Elephants is seeking a Principal Investigator for our Elephant Collective Behaviour Project. This role will spearhead research initiatives using cutting-edge video analysis tools to study elephant group...
1 May 2024
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