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Anyone can become a citizen scientist - even experts! If you're excited about exploring new areas of conservation tech, contributing to projects, or developing and launching your own citizen science projects or apps, this is the group for you.

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Tech In the Wild: Where technology meets conservation

Fauna & Flora
Join FFI on Wednesday 25 September for our AGM and a special presentation aiming to explore the range of tech projects we currently engage in, and a look to the future to see what technological advances could mean for...

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Citizen science conference

Hi, I wonder if some here might be interested in this: https://www.citizenscience.org/association/conferences/citsci2019/  This will be held March 13-17 in...

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I'll be there - there are several technology sessions that are planned for it...

Muki

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Ocean Hack: San Francisco, 10-11th September, 2018

One Ocean Collab
A 48 hr pop up innovation lab for the ocean, bringing together a mix of designers, strategists, technologists, engineers, scientists, marine conservationists, educators, artists and buisness talent to co-create...

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The Plant-Powered Camera Trap Challenge

Alasdair Davies
Are you an architect, engineer, designer or a scientist? Can you design and manufacture a prototype open source plant-BES (bio electrochemical system) to power a camera trap and environmental sensors in tropical forests...

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Technology Empowered Conservation Lecture Series

Paul Jepson
New technological forces look set to transform biodiversity science. This series will showcase and discuss cutting-edge applications happening in Oxford and beyond. It is guaranteed to inspire and challenge. 

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FIT Cheetahs

Larissa Slaney
A new research project is looking to investigate whether technology combined with the ancient skills and knowledge of Namibian trackers can help save cheetahs from extinction. Called FIT Cheetahs, the research project...

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Naturewatch: Lessons from the field of app development

John Cornell
When developing and deploying new technologies, something things do not go according to plan. The difficult road leading to success and the hard won lessons learnt along the way are seldom shared, and unfortunately more...

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Citizen Science Conservation Apps

Hello, I have been creating a listing of citizen science apps. Here are a few of them. 1. iBats - Allows for the recording and monitoring of bat calls.  2....

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Hi all, 

I am curious what the reason by the original poster to target applications specifically. That might help me provide us provide you with greater detail. There are  likely thousands out there and if you are also interested in web platforms either as data entry portals or doing project online data analysis that are yet again thousands more.  Many web based platforms have accompanying applications as well. If we look at the birding community, there are already several in Australia for example, but eBird is a global project to record and distribute wild bird observations, which is run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. It has a web platform but several apps have also been created to enter data via mobile phones. This is just one example of such technologies. Also I mentioned the global project finder SciStarter in a previous post, and just wanted to let you know, they are VERY interested in knowing about any projects you find that aren't in their data base. There are also interested in partnering with other groups to aggrigate projects. Here in Australia for example, as part of my role with the Australian Citizen Science Association (ACSA), I have faciliated such a partnership with the Atlas of Living Australia'/ACSAs project finder. An API now exhanged data across protals regardless of what the information is originally entered. 

Best regards,

Jessie

Hi guys,

I just spoke with the folks at Scistarter, and as a result they added a filter for applications, and also a an App URL field to the appropriate project pages! :)  Hope that helps!

@Sivakumar This thread seems interesting

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Digital technology companies in Europe for large scale citizen science project

Hi, anyone could recommend any digital tech companies in Europe, if possible already involved in conservation, that could handle a large scale citizen science project (like...

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Hi Julien,

CEH is not a digital tech company, but we are running or collaborating on several national and international CitSci projects, including development of web and mobile apps, graphical design, data visualisations and other. Always looking for new opportunities.

Also, check out Natural Aptitude - a good tech company based in Bristol, UK, that we have worked with before.

Hope this helps,
Karolis

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Internet Cats Just Got Bigger

The internet has a long love affair with cat pictures, but these aren’t your mom’s internet cats. Now internet cats are getting even bigger and wilder. In this article, Dr. Lisa Feldkamp talks about the work Panthera is...

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