There are educators everywhere working to teach the next generation of sustainability minded students. Whether in formal settings (K-12, undergraduate, graduate) settings or informally as science communication now it is more important than ever to work towards advancing Conservation Tech education.
The United Nations released the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which have served as a framework for educators in this space. Educating with a sustainable focus is a challenge whether you are interested in engineering, public policy, AI, or behavioral biology and we hope that this group will help you grow and exchange your ideas with other current and future educators.
This WILDLABS group has been set up by folks who are working to develop education toolkits, platforms, modules, and more in the conservation space. These tools can be at any level of development.
We hope you will become part of this group to share case studies, exchange ideas, and work towards developing a curriculum for future conservation tool crafters.
Current Examples of Conservation Tech Education Resources:
CV4Ecology Summer Workshop:
- Website for Summer Camp Information,
- Applications Due December 15th for next cohort
- 2022 Material including Syllabus, Lectures, Invited Talks, Final Presentations
Tech Tutors from WILDLABS
- TechTutors Season 1, WILDLABS
- TechTutors Season 2, WILDLABS
- TechTutors Season 3, WILDLABS
Want to know more about Conservation Technology education resources? Make sure to join the conversation in the WILDLABS Conservation Tech Training and Education group.
Additional Conservation Tech Courses:
- Tech4Wildlife @ Georgia Tech – Interdisciplinary and Project Based course on Conservation Technology
- MSc Wildlife Conservation Tech – Liverpool John Moores University Program
Group curators
Georgia Institute of Technology
Andrew’s always looking to find new interdisciplinary teams in the conservation tech space. He is a postdoctoral researcher at Max Planck Institute, who completed his PhD at Georgia Tech in 2022. His interests including conservation tech education and engineering work.
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Suzanne’s drive to protect the natural world led her to graduate school at Caltech. She is a Computing and Mathematical Sciences PhD student, advised by Pietro Perona. Her interests include leveraging machine learning and computer vision techniques to solve ecological problems.
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Georgia Institute of Technology
PhD student in Quantitative Biosciences
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Wildlife Drones
Wildlife Drones has developed the world’s most innovative radio animal-tracking system using drones so you can track your radio-tagged animals like never before.
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Data Scientist
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Founder of A Wild Life
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Duke University
Master of Environmental Management student at Duke University studying how technology can facilitate conservation efforts in a multitude of ecosystems.
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30+ years of experience working in biodiversity conservation worldwide, laregely focused on forests, rewilding and conservation technology
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MammalWeb.org
Co-founded citizen science camera-trapping project with interest in developing 100% open source wildlife tech. Advocate for open science/open research. Community Councillor at the Gathering for Open Science Hardware.
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I am currently a student studying Wildlife and Ecotourism Management in University of Ìbàdàn, Nigeria, I'm a front-end developer. I am interested in conservation technology
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Android/Full Stack Engineer working with a major company but wanting more for the world he lives in. I'm a long time hiker, camper, wildlife volunteer and animal foster parent who just wants to stop feeling like I'm on the sidelines while the things I love disappear.
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Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)
Wildlife Biologist and Marine Conservationist
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Biologist I consider myself a data scientist with a passion for nature and with an extensive experience in species distribution modeling, handling large data sets from different sources such as gbif, eBird, xeno-canto, Worldclim, Terraclimate, ocean color e NASA among others. But
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Careers
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PhD - Sensory ecology of vespine wasps
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I've been intrigued by this topic. Thinking about ways you could use drones or some kind of launcher to deploy panels above the canopy. Sadly I live in the great white north so I... |
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Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects, Build Your Own Data Logger Community, Camera Traps, Conservation Tech Training and Education, Sensors | 2 days 13 hours ago | |
Hi everyone,I am conducting a ~10 minute survey which I hope you can fill out and share with your networks... |
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Conservation Tech Training and Education, Community Base | 1 week 5 days ago | |
My original background is in ecology and conservation, and am now in the elected leadership of the Gathering for Open Science Hardware which convenes researchers developing open... |
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AI for Conservation, Biologging, Camera Traps, Conservation Tech Training and Education, Data management and processing tools , Drones, Emerging Tech, Sensors | 1 week 5 days ago | |
Pinging @samkelly |
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Conservation Tech Training and Education, Emerging Tech | 1 week 6 days ago | |
This would be awesome Andrew! Happy to help with some organization of this/identifying potential chapter authors. I'm sure you know about this already, but there is also this... |
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Conservation Tech Training and Education | 1 week 6 days ago | |
Thank you for sharing Andrew! |
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Conservation Tech Training and Education | 2 weeks 2 days ago | |
Hello All - @sarabeery et Al have just put a pre-print out on their educational insights into teaching Computer Vision to ecologists. I... |
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Acoustic Monitoring, AI for Conservation, Conservation Tech Training and Education, Early Career, Emerging Tech | 3 weeks ago | |
intrested. |
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Community Base, Conservation Tech Training and Education, Data management and processing tools , Early Career, Emerging Tech | 3 weeks 4 days ago | |
Dear Group Members,I am Tunji Mubarak Azeez and I am an undergraduate student in University of Ibadan, Nigeria. I am preparing to make a... |
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Conservation Tech Training and Education | 3 weeks 6 days ago | |
The Conservation Technology Lab at San Diego Zoo seeks undergrads for summer projects in computer vision, machine learning, bioacoustics,... |
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Acoustic Monitoring, AI for Conservation, Conservation Tech Training and Education | 1 month 1 week ago | |
Salama Ny Aina! And misoatra betsaka to Andrew for mentioning me! I do passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) in Madagascar, focused on lemurs now but hoping to bring in collaborators... |
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Conservation Tech Training and Education | 1 month 2 weeks ago | |
Quick reminder that the deadline for applications is just shy of a week away. This workshop is particularly geared to teach ecologists computer vision tools to apply to their... |
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Conservation Tech Training and Education, AI for Conservation | 1 month 2 weeks ago |
Solar panels in the tropics
26 January 2023 12:28am
27 January 2023 1:23pm
Hi Tom,
I'm with Akiba, you have to test. A collaborator has deployed solar-augmented kit in secondary jungle and some of them got enough light, and others didn't, so it can work. The open circuit voltage of solar panels doesn't change a whole lot in dim light, but the current drops drastically. So you would choose an oversize panel of the same voltage (or a bit higher).
Thanks
27 January 2023 3:56pm
I've been intrigued by this topic. Thinking about ways you could use drones or some kind of launcher to deploy panels above the canopy. Sadly I live in the great white north so I have no way of testing any concepts. Maybe even some kind of solar balloon that could float above the canopy. Interesting design problem.
AI for Forest Elephants Challenge
25 January 2023 3:34pm
Advanced Field School in Computational Ecology
25 January 2023 2:54pm
Western Section of The Wildlife Society 2023
25 January 2023 2:09am
Firetail Fellowships
19 January 2023 12:11pm
I'm a software engineer/data scientist at Schäuffelhut Berger. We're developing Firetail a software for GPS and acceleration visualization and behavioral annotation.
We have just launched our Firetail Fellowship Program which may be a great way to get access to a full Firetail license for your student project. Let me know if you have questions or comments on this!
Survey on research culture and sharing - please complete and share!
17 January 2023 5:23pm
Interview for Technologies in Conservation
24 November 2022 10:07am
16 January 2023 2:42pm
I'd be happy to chat with you if you wanted! My expertise is within passive acoustic monitoring particularly. The Conservation Tech Directory might be useful for you in identifying relevant actors within the space.
16 January 2023 5:16pm
Happy to contribute [email protected]
17 January 2023 5:12pm
My original background is in ecology and conservation, and am now in the elected leadership of the Gathering for Open Science Hardware which convenes researchers developing open source tech for science. I am not working on a specific piece of technology right now, but am happy to contribute some higher-level views for your interview if that helps.
Suggestions for user research/co-design methodologies
9 November 2022 11:32am
4 December 2022 8:56pm
@shahselbe see above if interested!
16 January 2023 2:57pm
Hi!
Rainforest Connection is currently in the process of UX/UI research for our audio data analysis platform, Arbimon. I'll forward this thread to our lead on this.
The folks at ConservationX might have some insights as well with testing of the NABIT and Sentinel.
16 January 2023 3:06pm
Pinging @samkelly
Introduction to CT Textbook
22 November 2022 10:43am
5 December 2022 3:00pm
Hi Andrew,
Great idea. It would be cool if the text uses multiple types of media. There is a new recent example of an online text for Google Earth Engine: Cloud-Based Remote Sensing with Google Earth Engine: Fundamentals and Applications that is very nicely done with links to code, exercises, and written by multiple authors that could partially serve as guidance for your text.
Best,
Vance
9 December 2022 11:45am
yes this is an excellent point. I love what the WILDLABS group did with the state of conservation tech report. Thanks for the example.
16 January 2023 2:51pm
This would be awesome Andrew! Happy to help with some organization of this/identifying potential chapter authors.
I'm sure you know about this already, but there is also this book from Wich & Piel: https://www.amazon.com/Conservation-Technology-Serge-Wich/dp/0198850255
Conservation Tech Course Syllabus
27 December 2022 10:09pm
4 January 2023 10:46am
Kindly share
8 January 2023 7:52pm
13 January 2023 12:12pm
Thank you for sharing Andrew!
WEBINAR: Earth, Wind & Fire: Amphibian Response to Wildfires, Windfarms, & More
11 January 2023 5:59pm
Education Paper on Computer Vision for Ecology
9 January 2023 5:30am
Job: maker / workshop technician
5 January 2023 10:53am
Conservation Design Project Recruitment
19 December 2022 5:52pm
4 January 2023 10:48am
intrested.
Conservation Technology Textbooks
2 January 2023 9:21pm
San Diego Zoo needs Summer Undergraduates!!
19 December 2022 1:58pm
Upcoming PAM & R Ocean Science Courses
16 December 2022 3:27pm
ONLINE TRAINING: Project Planning for Wildlife Conservation
15 December 2022 7:11pm
Looking for partner_Project in Madagascar
8 December 2022 6:12pm
11 December 2022 2:05pm
Hi Ny Aina! Thank you so much! Is there a time commitment for this? I know in our last Wednesday update there are groups working on this specifically: @Phyllis22, @Alasdair @Jkavutha are working on some similar projects! Also @carlybatist might be interested in this.
12 December 2022 3:57pm
Salama Ny Aina! And misoatra betsaka to Andrew for mentioning me! I do passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) in Madagascar, focused on lemurs now but hoping to bring in collaborators for other taxa as well as whole-soundscape analyses. I mostly work in the southeastern rainforest corridor but have collaborators working in the south and in the Masoala peninsula.
I actually developed a bunch of PAM training materials (in Malagasy, French & English) that can all be found on my website: https://carlybatist.commons.gc.cuny.edu/pam-training/. Feel free to use any of it! There is a video recording from a PAM training workshop I did at Centre ValBio as well as the slides from the presentation, a list of papers representing different case studies, lots of resources, etc.
I would love to chat further if you'd like too! Feel free to reach out: [email protected]. Veloma for now :)
CV4Ecology 2023 Applications
1 November 2022 8:01pm
3 November 2022 7:13pm
Hey Sara,
Thanks again for the session today--it was super helpful!
I have access to a pretty large network of camera trappers, and I'm currently surveying them to see who might be willing to share data with me. That being said, I can likely get data-sharing agreements with each of these agencies sorted out before the application deadline, but may not have the data in-hand by this time due to a lack of resources for transferring such large amounts of data.
I've used Azure Storage Explorer before to rapidly transfer large datasets like this, so I think it might be easier to compile all data in one location once we have access to the VMs. Would it be acceptable to apply with the signed data-sharing agreements in mind, and with the intent of organizing all of the data once we acquire access to the computing resources?
4 November 2022 6:02pm
Yes, that's definitely ok! You should just outline your larger plan and where you are at in the process in your application. However, the compute resources are intended to be used for model training and won't be available too far in advance of the school (or at least I can't guarantee they will be) , so you would need to make a plan for pre-summer workshop data storage, wrangling, and curation to get the data ready to train models on. Let me know if you're having issues with that and I can try to help brainstorm.
9 December 2022 8:23pm
Quick reminder that the deadline for applications is just shy of a week away.
This workshop is particularly geared to teach ecologists computer vision tools to apply to their research.
Tired of trying to manually count how many animals are in your images? Tired of listening to audio files to classify/detect species? Looking to clean and manage your data so that you can more easily access and analyze it? We're happy and eager to help you apply computer vision tools to try to help with these (and more!) tasks!
More info:
Feel free to comment here or message me directly if you have any questions!
PhD - Sensory ecology of vespine wasps
8 December 2022 12:47pm
Welcome to the Conservation Tech Training and Education Group!
31 October 2022 9:15pm
18 November 2022 7:11pm
Congrats on the PhD defense David!
30 November 2022 5:35pm
Hi everyone! I'm Christian, a technologist (engineer/designer) interested in crossing conservation, technology and education. I have worked in ed-tech projects before and recently got interested in conservation. I'm currently on the board of directors of a K-12 school focused on ecology and conservation. The school is located in Tandil, Argentina, right in one of the oldest mountain chains of Latinamerica. I'm mainly helping with fund raising and looking forward to introduce projects that combine technology and conservation for kids.
30 November 2022 8:21pm
Hi all!
I'm a research and development technologist working at Margo Supplies. I specialize in industrial design and IOT product development for managing human wildlife conflict.
Always happy to exchange knowledge and contribute to open source hardware projects.
The Variety Hour: November
22 September 2022 2:12pm
26 January 2023 4:21am
You may want to do site surveys and measure solar panel output over a few days for various potential locations. Depending on the solar panel, you do not need full light to get full capacity. My main recommendation would be to increase the battery capacities or add spare batteries and just use the solar panels to supplement the battery life.