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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Zoologist, Ecologist, Conservation Biologist
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- @donovantye
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Savanna Ecologist, Field Station Director and Head of Conservation Tech Projects for Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS).
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Conservation technology enthusiast
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Xerius Tracking
Concerned by wildlife protection and advanced technologies
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Adventure Scientists is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization based in Bozeman, MT that equips scientists and researchers with high-quality data collected from the outdoors that are crucial to addressing environmental challenges around the world.
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Conservation Biologist; Research interest Human Dimensions on Wildlife Conservation and Conservation Tech
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- @SamuelHertz
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I'm a PhD researcher at Royal Holloway University of London (Centre for GeoHumanities) researching modalities of sound-sensing technologies across climate and conservation sciences. Interested in ethics and histories of acoustic monitoring as well as new visualization methods.
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- @nicoboenisch
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Co-Director FOS Europe, Conservation Strategist and Technical Advisor to the Miradi Software Team, Improving Conservation through Adaptive Management and Evidence-based Learning
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- @gob1thaasan
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Gobithaasan started his career as a lecturer in 2009 and was promoted as an associate professor in 2015. His research current focus at Universiti Sains Malaysia is twofold; Topological Data Analysis and Machine Learning.
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- @emilydorne
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DrivenData
Lead Data Scientist and author of Zamba, a tool for automatic species classification from camera traps
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Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
I am a postdoctoral researcher using animal tracking technologies to investigate how chemical pollution influences fish movement and behaviour.
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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.
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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
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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.'
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