Conservation technology is already transforming our understanding of climate change's impacts on key environments and species around the world, allowing us to monitor populations and their changing ranges, observe habitat destruction and events like coral bleaching over time, and study the aftermath of major climate disasters like bushfires.
Because climate change is a global challenge shared by all of us, with no species, habitat, or continent completely untouched by its impacts, it's more important than ever to unite the conservation tech users and makers who are already gathering critical data and forming innovative ideas to help us meet these challenges.
Whatever conservation technology you work with, and whatever your expertise may be, there is a place for you in the fight against climate change. This group is a place to brainstorm and collaborate, share experiences and commiserate about the challenges ahead, find reasons to be optimistic about technology's role in this fight, and hopefully spark ideas that can make a positive impact for the species and habitats that we protect.
Wondering how to get started in this group? Here are some examples of topics to kick things off:
- Do you have a case study or project update related to climate change impacts? (For example, have your study species' migratory patterns changed because of changing weather patterns? Did your Audiomoths or camera traps capture data on a climate-driven disaster? Have challenges like melting sea ice altered your research timelines or made it more difficult to study your species?)
- Do you have a question about how your expertise could fit into innovating climate change solutions? Or do you have data to share that could help someone else understand climate change impacts or address challenges?
- Do you have an innovative idea that could help combat climate change, but need input or skills from other members with expertise in different areas or with different tools?
- Do you have a great resource to share that could help other members learn something new about climate change technology?
This group is new to the WILDLABS platform and set to grow - we can't wait to see what resources you'll share, what projects you'll start, and what solutions you'll find together!
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Funding
Amazon Sustainability Accelerator
Stephanie O'Donnell
Are you building a sustainability start-up and want to maximise your impact? We want to support you! We are looking for startups developing sustainability-focused products or recycling technologies that help keeping...
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Call for Proposals: 'Can Technology Save Biodiversity?'
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Frontiers in Conservation Science is calling for submissions for a Research Topic that aims at examining the paradoxical relationship that has been established in recent years between the flagships of new technology...
10 February 2023
Article
We need more people using Earth observation data
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The role of no-code geospatial software in the fight against climate change
24 January 2023
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Rainforest Foundation UK is looking for a developer who wants to put their skills to use in the fight against climate change and social injustice.
19 December 2022
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Join NASA’s harmful algal bloom ML challenge and win prizes!
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Using satellite imagery to detect and classify the severity of cyanobacteria blooms in small, inland water bodies.
15 December 2022
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New: Satellites for Biodiversity Award
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30 November 2022
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Stephanie O'Donnell
Check out these openings to join Google's global Sustainability Programme. Location varies.
3 October 2022
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Map of Life (MOL) and the Yale Center for Biodiversity and Global Change are seeking a Software Engineer who is interested in developing new technologies to support effective global biodiversity education, monitoring,...
26 September 2022
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The planet matters. People matter. Location matters.
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Amazon Sustainability call for proposals — Fall 2022
Stephanie O'Donnell
Amazon Sustainability is welcoming proposals related to climate risk/resilience, life cycle assessment, circular strategies, and more. Selected PIs receive unrestricted funds, no more than $80,000 USD on average
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The Variety Hour: March
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Climate crisis drives a rise in human-wildlife conflicts
1 March 2023 10:51pm
New article about how climate change and human-wildlife conflict go hand-in-hand. Would be interesting to hear from our climate change and HWC groups about how climate scientists and community members who are innovating HWC tech solutions could work together collaboratively to understand and address this growing problem.
Amazon Sustainability Accelerator
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Call for Proposals: 'Can Technology Save Biodiversity?'
10 February 2023 10:31am
Tech for a sustainable future: The challenges and opportunities ahead
10 February 2023 10:30am
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How to conduct rapid eligibility assessments for forest carbon projects using geospatial data
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We need more people using Earth observation data
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International Congress for Conservation Biology
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Join NASA’s harmful algal bloom ML challenge and win prizes!
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ONLINE TRAINING: Project Planning for Wildlife Conservation
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Post Doctoral Fellow - Computer Vision/Arctic Avian Ecology
7 December 2022 4:21am
New: Satellites for Biodiversity Award
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Wildlife Protection and the Clean Energy Transition
30 November 2022 10:26pm
Tech and Biodiversity Conference, London
15 November 2022 2:07pm
Carbon Hack 22
11 October 2022 12:17pm
Frontiers Symposium: Digital tools for reversing environmental degradation
5 October 2022 10:23am
18 Sustainability Job Opportunities at Google
3 October 2022 7:09pm
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The planet matters. People matter. Location matters.
23 September 2022 12:16pm
Catch Up with the Variety Hour: October
22 September 2022 1:59pm
Mongabay article: New tech aims to track carbon in every tree, boost carbon market integrity
20 September 2022 3:05pm
New digital platform, created by CTrees, for calculating carbon stored in trees around the world. Uses AI-enabled satellite datasets to give near-real-time forest carbon storage & emissions.
Amazon Sustainability call for proposals — Fall 2022
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Applications of Conservation Technology to the Power Grid
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Super interesting, Robin!
Do you know what kind of monitoring they're using? The site doesn't really clarify much on that.
12 August 2022 3:28am
Interesting thread david. Not specific to renewables but we've deployed sound cannons activated by RADAR to keep birds off tailings ponds to great effect.
Could likely use a similar solution to avoid having to spin down wind turbines in area's where the noise isn't as much of a concern.
Dazzling lasers would also be a good option for getting birds to avoid turbines.
15 August 2022 3:00pm
Adding some links that @CarlosAbrahams sent on Twitter last week, just to avoid having to go back to twitter to find them (Thanks Carlos!!!!)
UK Bat/Wind Report http://randd.defra.gov.uk/Default.aspx?Menu=Menu&Module=More&Location=None&ProjectID=16734&FromSearch=Y&Status=3&Publisher=1&SearchText=wc0753&SortString=ProjectCode&SortOrder=Asc&Paging=10#Description
Automated Wind/Bird monitoring and mitigation system https://dtbird.com/index.php
Nightjar monitoring at a wind farm https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2688-8319.12052
Radar to monitor bird and bats at wind farms https://detect-inc.com/wind-energy-bird-bat-radars/?gclid=CjwKCAjw6MKXBhA5EiwANWLODB9-Tq9k3h3JdMC7bLvVMKMG009HW3HmgVRt5blyv4pocz75L1IARBoCSTMQAvD_BwE
Radar to monitor birds at offshore wind farms https://group.vattenfall.com/uk/newsroom/pressreleases/2019/ornithology-embraces-the-digital-age-as-radars-to-be-deployed-on-ground-breaking-offshore-wind-research
Research Technician - Unoccupied Aircraft Systems Pilot and Geospatial Analyst
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3yr Postdoctoral Associate: Remote Sensing and Unoccupied Aircraft Systems
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Technology may solve climate change problems, but it’s also causing them | VentureBeat
8 August 2022 11:26am
Interesting thought piece from Mark Minevitch (AI for Good) et al. on the promise of AI and other ICT innovation to deliver on climate challenges, existing ICT sector emissions - and the three types of carbon lock-in which need to be actively managed (behavioural, digital, infrastructure).
'The danger is that the promises of digital technology can blind us to its less-recognized contributions to climate woes. Emissions from the ICT sector already rival those of the airline industry. Moreover, the few studies done so far (a,b,c) suggest the ICT sector’s emissions will at least double to 2-3 GTCO2e and if the rise in global GHG emissions is limited to 1.5˚C by 2030, contribute approximately 10% of the global GHG burden — nearly equal to that of the automotive industry. And these are cautious estimates.'
Climate Tech Careers & Networking
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