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There are educators everywhere working to teach and train 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. By working on interdisciplinary teams we can help develop teaching and training tools to help expand the field of Conservation Technology creation.

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Andrew Schulz
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 Stathatos
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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Case study: Juicy Marbles. 3 business hacks to learn for your nature NGO or business from the rising plant meat star.

Oliver Dauert

7 July 2023 8:38am

Before we start.

1. I don't get paid for this. I think they just got plenty of best practices for us we can use to combat the biodiversity crisis.

2. What has plant meat to do with biodiversity? Actually, a lot. Livestock production is the single most significant driver of habitat loss.

But here the hacks.

Sign up here to get 3 more hacks: 👉 https://wildbusinessmates.com/double-your-impact-newsletter/

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Looking for partner_Project in Madagascar

Ny Aina Tiana Rakotoarisoa

8 December 2022 6:12pm

Hi, I run a small NGO in Madagascar and would like to set up a continuous training about technology in Conservation for girls and young conservationist. I am looking for...

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Carly Batist

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 :)  

Ny Aina Tiana Rakotoarisoa

27 June 2023 12:43pm

Thank you all for your response. 

The idea is one training per year (2-3 days). Topic will vary depending likely. My first idea is something such GIS for conservation or remote sensing for example. 

The PAM looks great. I will send you an email. 

 

 

 

Meredith Palmer

1 July 2023 4:56am

Hi Ny Aina, @StephODonnell and I run a Women in Conservation Technology training program for women in East Africa (to date, we've worked with Kenyan and Tanzanian students). I'd be happy to talk through our process if you're interested! 

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You are protecting & restoring nature, but no one cares. 4 hacks to change it.

Oliver Dauert

30 June 2023 3:18pm

You are protecting & restoring nature, but no one cares. 4 hacks to change it.

No matter if you do biodiversity monitoring, coral gardening, mangrove plantation, animal GPS tracking, rewilding, etc. you want people to care about this issue as much as you do.

But by now, you realize you don’t get the attention or the financial support you hoped for.

⤵️ You can still sign up below

https://wildbusinessmates.com/double-your-impact-newsletter/

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How to get more done in the little time you have. Delegate. 5 hacks how to do it. 

Oliver Dauert

16 June 2023 1:47pm

To keep creating this positive impact, you must learn to delegate tasks to others. Otherwise, you will crack or burn out. Here are 5 hacks for how to do it. 

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Drue Freeman

19 June 2023 6:29pm

Great post, Oliver!From my years of experience leading very large teams with ~$2B global revenue: when you are working with highly talented, creative, individuals, delegate the...
Oliver Dauert

30 June 2023 3:13pm

100% @Drue_Freeman couldn't agree more. In the end it is about execution and the entire team working towards the same goal. Doesn't matter exactly if step by steps were followed....
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ISO Speakers for Emerging Technologies class.

Flor Sangermano

31 May 2023 4:29pm

Hi Everyone, Apologies for posting across multiple groups.  I'm teaching a new course @ Clark University next semester on emerging technologies for conservation. The course...

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Carly Batist

31 May 2023 10:21pm

Definitely interested! I'm in the ecoacoustics/acoustic monitoring space, working at Rainforest Connection and Arbimon.

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Looking to contribute

Dannii

27 April 2023 2:41am

Hi everybody 👋🏽,I'm a UX designer, and I design interfaces and improve user experiences/flows. I would love to contribute to conservation tech / climate tech, especially saving...

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MOOC TECH 

Stephanie O'Donnell

6 April 2023 1:06pm

The MOOC TECH will introduce the context of technologies applied to conservation, existing techniques, prerequisites for their implementation, their scientific and / or technical basis, their opportunities and...

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Moveapps: EMAC23 Coding Challenge

Andrea Koelzsch

3 March 2023 7:58am

Motivated by having been named a Conservation Tech Award grantee in 2022, we are launching the EMAC23 coding challenge to Equip MoveApps for Conservation.Pick one of five use...

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Lars Holst Hansen

3 March 2023 3:12pm

Super initiative! I hope you get a lot of entries to this coding challenge!

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Welcome to the Conservation Tech Training and Education Group!

Suzanne Stathatos

31 October 2022 9:15pm

Hello and welcome to our group!In this group, we’ll be discussing all things conservation tech education. That may seem broad and the intent of it is! Conservation tech ranges...

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Stephanie O'Donnell

16 February 2023 1:35pm

Hi everyone! 

Popping in here to drop in the recording of the chat we had with Suzanne and Andrew about this group at our recent Variety Hour call. If you're new to the group it might be a useful orientation. 

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Liz Ferguson

24 February 2023 2:24pm

Hi Folks, 

I'm Liz Ferguson from Ocean Science Analytics and just noticing this thread so reaching out to express interest! Thanks for posting that overview Stephanie. 

My company is an ocean science research consulting and online technical training company. We provide hands-on training for software, thus far related to passive acoustic monitoring and R, but have a Marine spatial analysis course coming out using QGIS in 2023. I also teach at a local college, and some analytical courses. Really interested in the group so happy you started it Suz and Andrew!

 

 

Andrew Schulz

2 March 2023 2:03pm

Thank you liz! @sstathat and I are really excited about the group as well. I can imagine there are a lot of challenges with training folks to use the software. Are these software/trainings. open source and/or available online? 

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What new best-practice guides do you need? 

Stephanie O'Donnell

23 February 2023 10:06am

Hi everyone, Two best practice guides have been added to the library this week, and i'm hearing some whispers of some others in development. I'm collating them into this...

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Tom August

24 February 2023 12:39pm

This guide for ecoacoustics looks good. I  havent read it yet though! 

Stefan Avramov

26 February 2023 6:18pm

What about thermal cameras and drones with thermal cameras for monitoring of mammals?

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