We invite fellow scientists, citizen scientists and researchers to brainstorm prospective projects for the refuge, so please don’t hesitate to reach out to us. For example, we will be carrying out general and species-specific biological research and surveys using camera traps, drones and many other recording and analytical techniques. To help achieve these goals, we also plan to work with local area schools and various universities to educate students about the importance of tropical biodiversity and conservation.
26 May 2022 4:51am
Hi @MICHAEL_PARSONS .
I'm Akiba from FreakLabs and we specialize in wireless sensor networks for environmental monitoring. We're currently working on a project in Australia with Bush Heritage and Monash University to monitor soil properties on conservation land in their reserves. Your project sounds quite interesting as well, and it'd be good to test our communications devices in a rainforest type setting. If you're interested, we'd love to discuss and brainstorm with you guys on how to set up some monitoring experiments out there. If so, let me know the best way to contact you.
Thanks.
Akiba
31 May 2022 1:44pm
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26 May 2022 4:51am
Hi @MICHAEL_PARSONS .
I'm Akiba from FreakLabs and we specialize in wireless sensor networks for environmental monitoring. We're currently working on a project in Australia with Bush Heritage and Monash University to monitor soil properties on conservation land in their reserves. Your project sounds quite interesting as well, and it'd be good to test our communications devices in a rainforest type setting. If you're interested, we'd love to discuss and brainstorm with you guys on how to set up some monitoring experiments out there. If so, let me know the best way to contact you.
Thanks.
Akiba
Hi Akiba (& Jacinta),
Many thanks for your kind message in reply to our suggestion for collaborations centered on our pending Daintree Nature Refuge. BTW, I have various Japanese scientists friends and colleagues.
I see from your website and videos (esp. https://youtu.be/wE8VW_R8WTI) that you help devise and provide specialist and custom tracking and monitoring equipment.
We certainly intend to deploy various nocturnal/diurnal camera traps. For example, there is a broad and local problem with feral pigs and we will be logging vertebrates this way. Another more specific project that we have long been contemplating is radio-tracking the daily movements of various Birdwing butterfly species (Ornithoptera, Papilionidae), both in Queensland and in PNG.
Therefore, we would be most interested to hear from you about the ways in which we might collaborate.
Akiba
Freaklabs