Hi <<First Name>>,
Welcome to the WILDLABS Community Digest, your regular round up of the latest posts and resources shared in our conservation technology community.
This email is the best way to quickly reach the 4000+ members of our conservation technology community. If you have something that our community should hear about or could help with and want it included, just post it straight to WILDLABS or email us at community@wildlabs.net.
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Ongoing Conversations
- ElephantEdge: Building the World’s Most Advanced Elephant Tracker | Laurens de Groot, Wildlife Tracking (1 reply)
- Advice on an engineering Master's project | Harry Horsley, Acoustic Monitoring (6 replies)
- Tech Tutors - Creating Custom Hardware with Arduino | Akiba, General Discussion (2 replies)
- Tracking via Starlink | Harold Tay, Wildlife Tracking (1 reply)
- Tiny, Cheap, Modular Ant Sensor Development | Andrew Quitmeyer, Sensors (8 replies)
- Camera Trap repairs | Mark (mt34thomas), Camera Traps (6 replies)
- Satellite tags for marine turtles recommendations | Aponzo, Wildlife Tracking (18 replies)
- Recommendations for low cost teaching/training supplies - conservation tech undergrad program | Andy Rothstein, General Discussion (3 replies)
- Introducing the Terrapin Tracker Project | Ned Horning, Wildlife Tracking (be the first to reply)
- Conservation grants for field vehicles | Yvan Satgé, Off Topic Area (be the first to reply)
- AudioMoth Water Resistant Case Design | Robin Paches, Acoustic Monitoring (7 replies)
- Welcome to WILDLABS | Joshua Siva, General Discussion (135 replies)
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Case Studies & Resources
- Metal Detecting Sensors for Anti-Poaching, Sam Seccombe | Sensors, poaching, wildlife crime, camera traps
- Sustainable Fishing Challenges: Fishing Vessels of the Future, Daniel Steadman | Fishing, sensors, tracking, data analysis
- Tracking Wild Reptiles, Amphibians, And Their Temperatures, Emily Taylor | Tracking, telemetry, data loggers, camera traps, sensors, reptiles
- The Perfect Paw Print: Collecting Data with FIT, Dayle Taylor | Citizen science, machine learning, data management
- Kākāpō Dreaming: A Wildlife Drones Adventure, Debbie Saunders | Drones, tracking tags
- From Autonomous Cars to Aqualink: Developing a reef monitoring system, Drew Gray | Citizen science, sensors
- Talking Tracking with Xerius, Ellie Warren | Tracking, Data Visualisation, future developments
- Creating the Wildeverse, Gautam Shah | Gaming, augmented reality
- Connecting to MBARI's Deep-Sea Instruments, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute | Wireless systems, ROVs, sensors
- You can also find all the past Tech Tutor tutorials on our Youtube Channel, with new tutorials posted every Friday.
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Opportunities
New:
- Challenge: ElephantEdge, Hackster.io | Collaboration / innovation opportunity, prizes, machine learning, IoT, tracking, poaching, human-wildlife conflict
- Unity Developer, Internet of Elephants | Career opportunity, Data visualisation, Mobile/Video Game
- PhD scholarships in acoustic monitoring and marine conservation, Curtin University | Career opportunity, bioacoustics, data analysis, sensors, oceans
- Conservation Leadership Programme 2021 Team Awards, CLP | Funding opportunity, endangered species, threatened ecosystems, biodiversity monitoring
- Tech Tutors Invitation: How do I get started with Arduino? Akiba and Jacinta, Freaklabs | Virtual event, DIY, tutorial, open-source, data loggers
Posted last Digest, but still open:
- Program Manager with ICARUS and Movebank | Career opportunity, tracking, data, bird migration
- Cornell Birdcall Identification Kaggle Competition | Competition, machine learning, acoustics
- Arm's AI Virtual Tech Sessions for Software Developers | Webinars, machine learning, emedded systems
- Women in the Field Programme, The Grumeti Fund | Training Opportunity, Tanzania
- Senior Software Engineer with Fieldkit | Career opportunity, environmental sensors, open source
- Principal Geospatial Infrastructure Engineer with Microsoft AI for Earth | Career opportunity, geospatial data, distributed computing
- Senior Geospatial Data Engineer with Microsoft AI for Earth | Career opportunity, geospatial data, python, geospatial raster analysis tools
- TinyML Full-Stack Web Developer | Career opportunity, scalable web services, frontend development
- MRes Oppportunities, inc Using Camera Traps to Assess mammal communities in East Africa, Chester University | Research opportunity, camera traps, giant pangolins
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What else is going on?
- Next week, we're hosting the first in a series of small, virtual focus groups with selected experts in conservation technologies. These focus groups, along with our broader community survey, are part of a larger research effort by WILDLABS to capture the State of Conservation Technology, highlighting recent progress, key constraints, and critical opportunities for growth in the field. If you use or build conservation technology, we also want to hear about your experiences! If you haven't already, please take our survey and share the link with colleagues.
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This group welcomes those in our marine conservation tech community to collaborate together on challenges related to sustainable fishing practices. Inspired by this thread focusing on minimising the impact of trawling gear on seafloor environments, the Sustainable Fishing Challenges group is a place to share resources, pose challenges, brainstorm creative solutions, and begin collaborative projects.
Dan Steadman is the Sustainable Fishing Challenges group manager. Get in touch with him if you have questions, suggestions, or ideas for new challenges within the group. Join here!
Check out this group's first challenge here:
Photo: Overview of a fishing enabled for remote electronic compliance monitoring. Courtesy of Archipelago Marine Research Ltd
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What is WILDLABS?
WILDLABS is an open community for collaboration about conservation technology. By joining community groups on WILDLABS, you and the people you work with can get more done together and stay on top of what’s happening in the conservation tech world.
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